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Fit for the Future The GROWER Issue No. 241 THE TECHNICAL JOURNAL FOR HORTICULTURE Aug/Sept 18 IT’S A KNOCKOUT Delivering a fatal blow to Turnip Mosaic Virus FIT FOR THE FUTURE MP George Eustice reveals the Government’s plans for horticulture on crop protection, labour and more in a post-Brexit world New AHDB Crop Walkers’ Guides The perfect assistant out in the field Crop Walkers’ Guide Walkers’ Crop Crop Walkers’ Guide Crop Walkers’ Guide Crop Walkers’ Guide Produced for you by: Crop Walkers’ Guide Walkers’ Crop AHDB Horticulture Crop Walkers’ Guide Outdoor Stoneleigh Park Kenilworth Warwickshire Sweetcorn Cucurbits Outdoor CV8 2TL Cucurbits T 024 7669 2051 E [email protected] Sweetcorn W horticulture.ahdb.org.uk Produced for you by: @AHDB_Hort If you no longer wish to receivePea this & Bean Produced for you by: AHDB Horticulture information, please email us on Stoneleigh Park [email protected] Kenilworth AHDB Horticulture Warwickshire Stoneleigh Park While & Bean Pea the Agriculture and Horticulture CV8 2TL Kenilworth Development Board seeks to ensure that the information contained within this document Warwickshire T 024 7669 2051 is accurate at the time of printing, no CV8 2TL E [email protected] warranty is given in respect thereof and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the horticulture.ahdb.org.uk W T 024 7669 2051 Agriculture and Horticulture Development @AHDB_Hort Board accepts no liability for loss, damage E [email protected] or injury howsoever caused (including that If you no longer wish to receive this W horticulture.ahdb.org.uk information, please email us on caused by negligence) or suffered directly [email protected] @AHDB_Hort or indirectly in relation to information and opinions contained in or omitted from If you no longer wish to receive this this document. 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Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board accepts no liability for loss, damage © Agriculture and Horticulture or injury howsoever caused (including that Development Board 2018. All rights reserved. caused by negligence) or suffered directly or indirectly in relation to information and opinions contained in or omitted from this document. © Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board 2018. All rights reserved. Monitoring and accurately identifying pests, diseases and disorders is vital for effective crop protection. These easy-to-use guides are designed to help you do just that. New Pea and Bean, Outdoor Cucurbits, Outdoor Salads and Sweetcorn Crop Walkers’ Guides – all out now horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/publications ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS COMMENT If you wish to get in touch with our team about any aspect of this publication please use the following contact details: GENERAL ENQUIRIES [email protected] EDITORIAL Steve Tones, Strategy Director, Luke Garner AHDB Horticulture Technical Writing Manager [email protected] [email protected] Haroon Jabar Marcomms Senior Manager - Horticulture MEETING INDUSTRY NEEDS [email protected] When we consulted stakeholders last year, many criticised us KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE for including market development in the new AHDB Horticulture Debbie Wilson strategy. Undoubtedly for most horticultural crops, technical Head of Knowledge Exchange - Horticulture needs, particularly on crop protection, override everything else, [email protected] but for some speciality crops, market development is a genuine priority. DESIGN Zoe Shackleton This ability to meet your needs depends on the accuracy of Graphic Design the information we hold on your businesses. This is continually [email protected] eroding as industry evolves and people change jobs. Occasionally, as now, we need a major overhaul. We will therefore be contacting SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MAILING you over the next few months to update our records. I am sure it Vicky Horbury will make a big difference to the relevance of our output, so please Customer Relationship Coordinator bear with us. [email protected] One benefit of being part of AHDB is that we can draw on expertise from elsewhere in the organisation. So, Kim Parker IMAGE CREDITS and I were delighted to be joined by Rebecca Miah and Nicky Gary Naylor Photography – page 10 Dodd from AHDB’s Market Development team recently to launch a very different kind of project, which is looking at ways we can John Walsh, University of Warwick – page 18 engage younger consumers with the wonders of watercress. The watercress growers are extremely positive and work is now Charlotte Nellist, University of Warwick – page 19 surging ahead. James Hutton Institute – page 36 Elsewhere, we closed the Associate Membership scheme in May. Originally intended to restrict website access to just levy payers One point is awarded per annum for BASIS registered and key stakeholders, it had instead become a barrier to everyone members for reading this magazine. From 1 June 2018 to and was unfairly penalising consultants, who provide a vital link in 31 May 2019, please quote reference CP/67833/1819/j the communication chain between AHDB and industry. On a final note, as Brexit approaches, everyone is anxious to understand how government sees the future. I was therefore This publication is delighted that MP George Eustice generously agreed to give us brought to you by AHDB his insight, which you can see over on page 8. For more information contact: AHDB Horticulture Stoneleigh Park Kenilworth Warwickshire CV8 2TL © Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board 2018. T: 024 7669 2051 While the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board seeks to ensure that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time E: [email protected] of printing, no warranty is given in respect thereof and, to the maximum W: horticulture.ahdb.org.uk extent permitted by law the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board accepts no liability for loss, damage or injury howsoever caused (including @AHDB_hort that caused by negligence) or suffered directly or indirectly in relation to information and opinions contained in or omitted from If you no longer wish to receive this this document. information, please email us on the address above. All rights reserved. Aug/Sept 2018 3 CONTENTS 5 Contributors 19 Tackling Turnip Yellows Virus from 30 Who’s feeding the monkey? 6 News and updates all angles How to get the monkey off your back Finding new alternatives to tackle and free up more time TuYV in Brassicas IN FOCUS 20 Tackling the new face of an old 10 Fit for the future enemy MP George Eustice discusses the Best practice advice for growers for a 30 Government’s plans for horticulture new strain of Phytophthora infestans after Brexit 22 Guardians of the glyphosate galaxy How can we safeguard the future of the herbicide glyphosate for future 25 use? RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 24 What goes around, comes around 31 The next link in the chain How horticulture could benefit from a The importance of succession circular economy planning 26 How good is your water? 32 Grow your own champions Our Fertinnowa series kicks off with Cost-effectively improving worker a look at your water quality performance in your business CULTIVATE LABOUR & LOGISTICS INNOVATE 12 Rooting for success 28 Are you an unwitting slave master? 34 Measuring maturity with How the East Malling Rootstock Club chlorophyll fluorescence is providing exciting new options for Might you be inadvertently be aiding labour abuse without realising it? An insight into a new method that growers will predict apple maturity up to 10 days early PROTECT 36 Image is everything Detecting changing environmental 14 EAMU latest 28 conditions with imaging sensors AHDB’s Bolette Palle Neve brings you up-to-date on all things EAMU 15 The fight for thrips control VIEWPOINT Can a long-term solution to Western 38 Insider insight: Following the Flower Thrips be found? Coca-Cola model 16 Responding to crisis Hendrik mans, Leckford Estate, Discover the work AHDB is doing to explains what mushrooms and tackle crop protection challenges Coca-Cola have in common 18 It’s a knockout Delivering a knockout blow to Turnip Mosaic Virus 4 AHDB Grower CONTRIBUTORS Discover more about the people who have helped to contribute to this issue of The Grower magazine BOLETTE PALLE NEVE MICHELLE FOUNTAIN MEHRDAD MIRZAEE Bolette Palle Neve is a Crop Deputy Head of the Pest and Mehrdad completed his BSc in Protection Scientist with AHDB Pathogen Ecology (PPE) Department Horticulture in 1994 and worked where she has been working since at NIAB EMR, Michelle specialises in as glasshouse grower and crop 2010 on the EAMU Programme. the minimisation of pesticide use in production advisor in Iran before Bolette studied Agricultural Sciences fruit horticulture, improving pollination moving to the UK in 2007. in Denmark specialising in crop in fruit crops and incorporating He continued his studies in MSc protection. Since completing an MSc modern fruit growing practices with and PhD in postharvest and natural in herbicide resistance, Bolette has Integrated Pest Management. Her resources at Writtle University College worked in crop protection research research involves the semiochemical and University of Greenwich. He in Australia and the UK and was also manipulation of insects, optimising started his job as Technical and a graduate trainee with the National the use of biological control agents Business Development Manager at Farmers’ Union.
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