Crop Protection

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Introduction As you know the AHDB commitment to provide the EAMU service comes to an end in 7 months. Consequently, the industry has a comparatively short time scale to put alternative arrangements in place.The steering group which has been working on the new arrangements has continued to meet through the summer to progress plans for…

Funded R&D for Ornamental Horticulture Agreed Statement approved 21st June 2021 “Following recent meetings with representatives of the GBLG, BOA management committee resolved this week to confirm its support for the group in its discussions with DEFRA regarding new proposals for near-market R&D in horticulture.”“The BOA confirms that it will continue to lobby for cooperatively…

Members’ responses to the importance of current items of service provision response to a survey question on priorities for research Added priorities for research suggested by respondents. R&D levy survey of attitudes to areas needing funding Seek to determine the best recyclable tray to enable best practise and standardisation of sales unit offered by the industry to…

Distribution of B & Q biotypes of Bemisia tabaci (personal communication- Dominic Eyre, Defra) ” Fera did a study on biotypes detected in the UK which was published in 2012.  This showed that Q type was predominant in 2010-2011 and it was also predominant in 2002-2003. We don’t know if there has been a change…

Poinsettia Review of Bemisia PZ status 2020 Following our meeting in January to discuss this issue we have had a conversation with APHA to get a better understanding of the operation of the PHSI programme of inspection this season. Notes of this exchange can be found here. In addition, a webinar is planned for 17th…

DEFRA Review of AHDB August 2018 A review is being carried out 10 years after the founding of AHDB in 2008 after the amalgamation of several commodity boards including the Horticultural Development Council (HDC). This is a rather long report (73 pages) which has a focus on the levy and accountability to levy payers. The…

Defra Consultation 8th May 2018 ‘The future for food, farming and the environment’ Executive Summary BOA members and other ornamentals growers are keen to contribute to this consultation and to establish the priorities for the development of the horticulture industry. In responding to the consultation via the online portal, we have approached all the questions…