HGCA : Crop Management

Crop Management
Crop management includes general guides, disease, weed, pest, nutrient and soil management information. Based on results from HGCA’s research programme, these resources aim to ensure you always have the latest practical agronomic information at your fingertips.

Disease management information, including identifying diseases, monitoring disease levels, optimising spray applications and fungicide performance.

Weed management

Guidance on cultural and chemical control methods of arable weeds such as black-grass, cleavers, rye-grass, annual meadow-grass.

Publications and tools to assist arable pest control – including slugs and aphids. Guidance on cultural control strategies and where to get information about current pest pressure.

Information for targeting nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, sulphur and micronutrient applications. Guidance on the use of farmyard manures and slurries as well as nutrient management tools.

Well-managed soil is the basis for growing consistent and productive crops. You can find information on optimising conditions for crop growth, minimising the risk of erosion and maintaining soil organic matter levels.

Effective grain storage is a crucial area of farm management due to stricter food/feed safety legislation and assurance scheme requirements.

Precision farming technology such as yield mapping, automatic steering and variable rate application can increase the efficiency of farm operations.

HGCA has a range of publications and tools to assist with environmental stewardship.

Oilseed rape disease forecasting tools

AHDB launches pest encyclopaedia

5 November 2014 New!

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has issued a publication to help growers manage pests and natural enemies in field crops.

HGCA monitoring is pilot scheme to provide growers and agronomists with regionally specific information about agronomy, disease and variety performance.

Crop Management

Cabbage stem flea beetle

Identifying soil structure

Disease

Weed management

Pest management

Nutrient management

Soil management

Grain storage and sampling

Precision farming

Stewardship