Content related to the topic: wheat

Learn about the cereal stem sawfly and leaf sawflies.

Learn about minor flea beetles, including the Wessex, striped, turnip, adult beet and flax flea beetles.

Understand how three generations of frit fly each year can damage cereals such as grasses, maize and spring oats.

Gout fly is present across the UK and an occasional minor pest of wheat, barley and triticale.

Learn how to identify and control minor pests, including the cereal ground beetle, cereal leaf beetle and wheat shoot beetle.

Learn about the symptoms caused by the cereal cyst nematode.

Bean seed fly larvae can damage alliums, peas, cereals, field beans, and vegetable brassicas.

Learn about the life cycle and how to identify yellow cereal flies.

Leatherjackets (larvae of crane flies) damage the roots of a wide range of crops.

Learn about the rose–grain aphid and its impact on cereals.

GAI is the ratio of green leaf and stem area to the area of ground on which the crop is growing.

As it grows, a crop changes in form (development) and accumulates dry matter (growth).