High yields key to best returns

摘要

High yields are crucial to maximising returns from high grain prices in both wheat and barley. Should new fungicides be part of the programme? Yield is king, and never more so than with this season's high grain prices, which is why it will make senseto invest in fungicides that maximise wheat yields this spring, according to Mark Hall, a business analyst for Syngenta. Speaking at the press launch of Syngenta's new wheat fungicide, Seguris, he oudined the economic factors that he thought made using new fungicide technology a sensible decision. UK wheat prices had almost doubled in the past 12 months, he said. "And while prices have dipped recently it will be be short-lived. "Growers are in for a good year in terms of profitability."