Author name: Mike Harrington

Yellow Rust: A Symptom of Systemic Weakness in Cereal Cropping Systems

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By Tim Ashley, Edaphos Agronomy Introduction The 2025 wheat season has revealed significant vulnerabilities in cereal production systems across the UK. Yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) has emerged as the most problematic disease of the year, affecting a wide range of wheat varieties, including those previously considered resistant. The widespread reliance on fungicides, …

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The importance of the winter decomposer cycle

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Written by Mike Harrington, Managing Director of AIVA Fertiliser Following on from the beginning of November, and it is reassuring to see that nature’s autumn cycle is beginning. The time where digestion, recycling and humification occurs in active soil systems. We do not require an expensive test to see this. Our eyes tell us that …

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