The 4th Annual Diseases Review
Problems in high value crops

CANCELLED

The RESCHEDULED Diseases Review on Monday 5 March at NIAB Park Farm, Sophi Taylor Building, Histon, Cambridge has been cancelled due to bad weather.

The next Diseases Review will take place in autumn 2018. Further details to follow.

The theme of this year’s review is: “Problems in high value crops”

This is an invitee only event.

Provisional Programme

10.00 – Registration and coffee

10.30 – Chairman’s introduction – Jonathan Blackman from HL Hutchinson

10.40 – Disease challenges control in high value crops: the manufacturer’s view point.
Alan Horgan, Certis

11.10 –The challenges of disease control in high value crops. An advisor’s view.
Chris Wallwork, Agrii

11.40 Disease control in vines
Julien LeCourt, EMR

12.10 Student posters summary presentations

12.40 Lunch – student poster session

14.00 Sugar beet Virus disease
Mark Stevens, BBRO

14.30 Bacterial diseases in various crops
Steve Roberts, Plant Health

15.00 Phytophthora diseases of potatoes, fruit and trees and other crops
David Cooke, James Hutton Institute

15.30 Discussion and wrap-up

15.45 End