A new spring barley seed treatment from Bayer for this season, the first to contain a new SDHI fungicide, is claimed to give growers better control of net blotch, loose smut and leaf stripe in what agronomists warn could be a high disease year. RaxilStar (fluopyram + prothio-conazole + tebuconazole) became widely available for winter barley last autumn for UK growers and now it has gained approval just in time for the expected big upswing in spring drilling this season. The UK spring barley area could be up some 40°/o this year according to the HGCA, and the threat from disease may be high this season due to carryover contamination after wet weather pushed up disease levels last year. The new seed dressing is a direct replacement for Raxil Pro and is being offered for the first time on spring barley, with Peter Stacey at Bayer CropScience believing that there could be more than 800,000ha drilled this year.
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