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In the June edition
- Ympact® - a new growth nutrition seed treatment from Corteva
- Ensure your blight programme is robust with Zorvec Entecta™
- Pioneer® WOSR hybrids and LumiGEN® seed treatment options
- Bag 5 bags of Pioneer WOSR seed!
- Oilseed rape herbicides and water stewardship
- Maximise yield with BlueN™
- Broadway® Ultra Questionnaire
- Cereals Event 2025 highlights
- Update your communications preferences, enter our monthly prize draw plus ways to earn BASIS & NRoSO points
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Ympact® - a new growth nutrition seed treatment from Corteva
Inspired by nature, Ympact is a novel seed treatment which enhances seedling growth by optimising metabolic processes and abiotic stress tolerance.
Why choose Ympact?
- Speeds up plant emergence and improves early crop vigour
- Enables more uniform plant establishment
- Increases biomass and chlorophyll content
- Increases metabolic activity and tolerance to diseases
- Increases winter hardiness
- Compatible with single purpose fungicide seed treatments
To find out more about Ympact, visit the product page or read our brochure here.
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Ensure your blight programme is robust with Zorvec Entecta™
As crops transition from Rapid Growth to Stable Canopy, ensure your second application of Zorvec Entecta is applied. Containing the tried and trusted Zorvec™ active, its systemic activity and persistence protect emerging foliage—particularly important as P. infestans risk increases with forecasted showers and warmer temperatures. If blight risk is present, include a curative non-OSBPI partner, such as cymoxanil (e.g. Option®) or propamocarb.
Watch the latest potato crop update with Craig Chisholm and Abi Morton who visited a main crop potato field in early June and discussed what should be on growers' minds as the season progresses.
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Although early season pressure has been low, we began 2025 facing the same late blight population we ended with in 2024. To maintain effective control, it's essential to follow the Zorvec active Best Practice Application Advice; visit the Zorvec active stewardship hub to stay up to date with the latest information.
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Fight Against Blight is reporting that the Hutton Criteria are being met across much of the potato-growing region in the coming week, indicating heightened late blight risk. Stay vigilant and adjust your programme accordingly.
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Learn and earn CPD points!
Watch our Spring 2025 Technical Update for Potatoes and then take the short quiz to earn a BASIS and/or NRoSO point. You will also have the opportunity to share your feedback in some short survey questions and be in with a chance to win a prize hamper!
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Quiz and survey open until 31 August 2025.
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Pioneer® WOSR hybrids and LumiGEN® seed treatment options
At Corteva, we have a trio of high performing Pioneer WOSR hybrids proven in UK & Ireland conditions.
- PT303 - the first winter oilseed rape hybrid to offer growers top level yields with built-in tolerance to Sclerotinia and Verticillium Stem Stripe.
- PT312 - has given high gross output yields with very high oil contents and provides Protector Sclerotinia tolerance with partial Verticillium Stem Stripe resistance.
- PT315 - has given high gross output yields with a very high oil content and pod shatter resistance.
Every Pioneer hybrid is resistant to Turnip Yellows Virus. Pioneer WOSR seed is treated with LumiGEN Premium or LumiGEN Premium Insecticide Powered by Lumiposa™. Both options include the nutrient growth promoter Lumidapt Optima™ and the fungicide Scenic Gold™. The insecticide Lumiposa helps get crops off to the right start. UK trials show Lumiposa can lead to a higher plant establishment and fewer cabbage stem flea beetle larvae per plant. In early drilling situations, its protection against cabbage root fly attack may be very valuable.
Click here to find out more about our 2025 hybrid range.
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Bag 5 bags of Pioneer® WOSR seed!
Complete our short questionnaire to be in with a chance of winning 5 bags of Pioneer WOSR seed. All seed will be treated with LumiGEN® Premium Insecticide. A winner will be selected at the end of July 2025.
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Oilseed rape herbicides and water stewardship
With harvest just around the corner and planning for the next crops underway, we thought it would be useful to remind growers about some of the stewardship best practices that should be considered now, ahead of OSR drilling.
Steps to consider before drilling and at establishment of your oilseed rape:
1. Aim to grow oilseed rape on low-risk fields:
- Those that don't slope to a watercourse (field slope is less than 5% - 1m fall in 20m).
- Field that are less susceptible to run-off.
- That are not bordered by a watercourse.
- Fields where there are no field drains.
- Those that have not been deep sub-soiled (below plough layer) or mole-drained within the preceding 6 months.
2. Consider appropriate establishment, direction of working travel, soil type and topography:
- Layout tramlines so that they do not provide a direct route for water to leave the field.
- Disturb the surface compaction in the tramlines if possible.
- Ideally, establish the crop with true minimum tillage (working the top 4-6cm only) or by direct drilling.
3. Use buffer zones:
- To reduce the risk of run-off (both water and sediment) that may contain pesticides from reaching watercourses, the VI guidelines recommend a 6m buffer along watercourses, if possible.
- Wide buffers are advisable in particularly vulnerable areas.
4. Safeguard zones:
- Refer to the Environment Agency website “Drinking Water Protected Areas Safeguard Zones (SgZs)” to check if planned oilseed rape fields are in a Safeguard Zone. Consider not growing this crop if mitigation methods cannot be put in place and there is a high risk of herbicides moving into water.
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These visuals are from the VI website. For more information click here.
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Maximise yield with BlueN™
BlueN is a novel nutrient efficiency biostimulant for use in a wide range of crops, including potatoes, maize and sugar beet. BlueN contains Methylobacterium symbioticum, a bacterium found in nature that fixes atmospheric nitrogen for use by the plant. BlueN provides a sustainable, alternative source of nitrogen that reduces dependency of nitrogen uptake from the soil and ensures the plant has access to nitrogen all season long.
Proven results in 2024 trials:
Sugar beet
In 2024 trials, BlueN delivered an average yield increase of 12.5% (adjusted to 16% sugar content) in sugar beet. With a return on investment of £415/ha (based on £33/t for sugar beet and £30/ha for BlueN), the benefits are clear.
Sam Myhill of MB Farming Ltd used BlueN for the first time last year and saw yield increases of 29% in his trial. To find out more, read the full article here.
Potatoes
Potato trials showed an average marketable yield increase of 4t/ha. This translated to an impressive return on investment of £970/ha (based on £250/t for potatoes and £30/ha for BlueN).
These results build on previous grower experiences. Read how potato grower Andrew Thomas increased his Maris Peer potato yield by 20% with a BlueN application here.
Forage maize
In forage maize, BlueN boosted fresh and dry matter yields. One grower-led trial series across five sites recorded an average yield increase of just over 2t/ha in dry matter yield.
For more information including tech sheets and tank mix information, click here or contact our hotline team on 0800 689 8899.
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We are interested in your feedback on Broadway® Ultra
Did you use Broadway Ultra this spring? We are interested to hear about your experience. Please take a look at the questions below and then send your feedback to your Corteva area manager or to our Cereal Herbicides Technical Manager, Hugh Guinan (hugh.guinan@corteva.com).
1. What weeds did you target?
(Brome, Ryegrass, Wild oats, Annual meadow-grass or broad leaved weeds)
2. Which adjuvant did you use with Broadway Ultra?
3. How large were the weeds at application?
4. How did you rate the performance of Broadway Ultra on the target weeds?
5. Based on the performance of Broadway Ultra in 2025, will you be using it again in 2026?
6. Any further comments or feedback on Broadway Ultra is welcome.
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback.
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Cereals Event 2025 highlights
What a fantastic couple of days at Cereals 2025! It was great to welcome so many of you to the Corteva stand. Thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat, grabbed a slice of pizza, or got involved in the fun!
Over the two days, we served up over 2,000 slices of pizza and 1,000 hot drinks, had brilliant conversations with CPD Knowledge Trail participants and customers, and saw fantastic engagement with our exciting hamper giveaway and Broadway® Ultra Wall of Fame.
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did. Click here to watch a few highlights from the event.
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CPD points
Subscribing to Corteva Agriscience Arable Update gives eligibility for 2 CP BASIS points and/or 2 NRoSO points and/or 2 CP points for those who are part of the BASIS Environmental Advisors Register (EAR) annually.
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USE PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS SAFELY. Always read the label and product information before use. For further information including warning phrases and symbols refer to label. ®, ™ Trademarks of Corteva Agriscience and its affiliated companies. All other brand names are trademarks of other manufacturers for which proprietary rights may exist. All manufacturers tradenames and trademarks are duly acknowledged. © 2025 Corteva. Ympact® contains Fulvic Acid, Humic Acid, trace elements including Copper (0.45%), Manganese (0.74%), Zinc (1.1%), Boron, Cobolt, Sodium. Zorvec Entecta™ contains amisulbrom and oxathiapiprolin. Option® contains cymoxanil. BlueN™ contains Methylobacterium symbioticum. Broadway® Ultra contains pyroxsulam and mesosulfuron-methyl.
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