Septoria Conference

22 March 2017 22 March 2017

Event Time 09.30
Venue Dunboyne Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland

The conference is to focus on understanding resistance development and to promote the measures that should help to reduce disease pressure in crops

09.30 - 10.30	Registration
10.30 - 10.40	Conference Opening Andrew Doyle TD, Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture Understanding Resistance Chair – John Lucas, Rothamsted
10.40 - 10.50	Septoria – a constant threat to Irish winter wheat crops Ciaran Collins, Teagasc
10.50 - 11.10	Why is Septoria a fungicide breaker? Neil Paveley, ADAS, U.K.
11.10 - 11.30	Fungicide resistance to azoles across Europe Lise Nistrup Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
11.30 - 11.45	Ireland at the edge of efficacy Steven Kildea, Teagasc
11.45 - 12.00	Panel Discussion
12.00 - 13.20	Future Prospects *Chair – Michael Hennessy, Teagasc* An industry wide view on the future prospects for septoria control
13.20 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 15.00	Optimising current control methods *Chair – Andy Doyle, Irish Farmers Journal* Is there a value in varietal resistance for septoria control Joseph Lynch, Teagasc Ethel White, AFBI, NI
15.00 - 15.30	Is cultural control really applicable for septoria? Tom McCabe, UCD Stephen Harrison, South West Agronomy
15.30 - 16.00	An ideal fungicide control programme should be... John Spink, Teagasc Jonathan Blake, ADAS, UK
16.00 - 16.15	Panel Discussion
16.15 - 16.30	Conference Remarks