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In this issue:
- Help us develop and improve Crop Oracle CD and RL Plus
- Fusarium Mycotoxin Risk Assessment Tool
- Events
- R&D conference January 2008 - Arable Cropping in a changing environment
- Oilseed Rape Workshops - December - February
- Agronomists Workshop - 11 December
Complete our Crop Oracle CD / RL Plus survey and be entered into a prize draw!
HGCA is looking at ways to make the Crop Oracle CD and RL Plus (the interactive version of the Recommended Lists) more user-friendly. By discovering how you currently use these resources and listening to your feedback we can identify how to develop and improve them.
Please take a moment to provide your feedback via our website:http://www.hgca.com/hgca/surveys/oracle/form.asp
For those completing this short form, names will be entered into a prize draw with the chance to win a £25 voucher for Threshers! Closing date for completion of forms is 16 November 2007.
Fusarium Mycotoxin Risk Assessment Tool
This provides growers with means of entering their own risk scores for factors associated with the risk of fusarium mycotoxin developing on wheat.
By using the tool, which is an excel spreadsheet, risk scores are entered and an overall risk value obtained. This will provide a guide on the need to test the grain and its suitability for the milling wheat market. It can be printed out, signed and dated to keep as a record of your risk assessment.
Link to Fusarium mycotoxin risk assessment tool: http://www.hgca.com/document.aspx?fn=load&media_id=3855&publicationId=2764
Link to HGCA Guidelines to minimising the risk of fusarium mycotoxins in cereals. http://www.hgca.com/publink.aspx?id=3848
HGCA R&D Conference "Arable cropping in a changing climate"
23 & 24 January 2008 at Belton Woods, Nr Grantham
The 2-day conference investigates the impact climate change will have on arable agriculture and explores the opportunities available to growers to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The programme will include a session on changes in pest and disease pressure featuring speakers from CSL, Rothamsted Research, ADAS and SAC.
The registration form is now available on our website and will be posted soon to levy payers.
http://www.hgca.com/event.aspx?eventId=1030
5 Oilseed Rape Workshops
17 Dec, Peterborough; 18 Dec, Chelmsford; 29 Jan, Morpeth; 11 Feb, Swindon; 15 Feb, Coventry
This workshop will give you the opportunity to hear about the latest work on cultivation and establishment techniques, the use of late nitrogen, and disease control for Sclerotinia and Phoma. There will also be the chance to discuss Recommended List varieties, developing markets for your crop and emerging issues such as pollen beetle resistance and increases in clubroot.
http://www.hgca.com/event.aspx?eventId=1083
Workshop for Agronomists on 11 December at Northampton
This afternoon workshop will give you the opportunity to get technical updates on the latest HGCA-funded research on disease control, weed control, and nitrogen. HGCA speakers will also cover the economic implications of 0% set-aside and how you can get more involved with HGCA.
http://www.hgca.com/event.aspx?eventId=1103
For more details on these and other events HGCA is running this winter, please click on:
www.hgca.com/events
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