Content related to the topic: wheat

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

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.

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

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

Learn about the cereal stem sawfly and leaf sawflies.

The common swift moth and the ghost moth larvae damage crops, including carrots, cereals and lettuce.

Learn how stem nematodes affect crops, including alliums, cereals, field beans and sugar beet.

Learn about the symptoms caused by the cereal cyst nematode.

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).

These numerical reference points allow comparison of a crop’s performance to be made.