Improving the resilience of winter wheat on light soils could help combat the type of stress being seen in many crops in the current hot spell.Hotspots in light land wheats have been spreading rapidly over the past couple of weeks, which is potentially bad news for both yield and quality.It's a problem with which John Barrett, marketing manager for Sentry Norfolk, is familiar. About a third of the 22,000ha farmed by Sentry Farms is prone to such problems when drought strikes."Maximising margins on these areas is key for our business," says Mr Barrett. "We asked Agrovista three years ago to help us manage these crops better to deliver more reliable yields and quality."
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