How to avoid flat crops

摘要

Lodging causes devastating yield and quality losses from promising premium crops, but it is cost-effective to manage.Damage resulting from lodging can be severe -yield losses have been shown to be as high as 75% in affected crops. In severe lodging years, which occur every 3-4 years in the UK, 10-15% of the cereal area will suf fer, with losses in those patches estimated on average at 25%.