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Could plant breeding provide a slug threat solution?

Establishing a series of on-farm trials has helped one Yorkshire farmer better understand the behaviour of slugs in a bid to tackle burdens in a post-metaldehyde era. Charlotte Cunningham reports.

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Could plant breeding provide a slug threat solution?

Slugs present a huge challenge for Yorkshire grower Graham Potter, routinely wreaking havoc on his 200-hectare arable farm near Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Mr Potter grows 89ha of first and second wheats,...

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