Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Innovation Centre Open Days to highlight latest innovative varieties
The Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Innovation Centre Open Days has become an established showcase of our work with growers and an invaluable opportunity for customers to see what is on the horizon.
Taking place on October 9th and 10th at the Surfleet site in Lincolnshire, the event welcomes visitors to explore the demonstration plots and engage with Syngenta's vegetable crop experts. Our specialist team from Europe and the UK, covering brassica crops, leafy salads, crop protection, application technology and sustainable agriculture, will all be on hand to discuss latest developments and future potential.
Your variety selection will have a major influence on business performance at all levels, from practical agronomy decisions, to resolving labour shortages, managing increasing costs, coping with changing climate, creating innovative markets, and creating a long-term sustainable operation.
Syngenta is at the forefront of delivering varieties developed to meet growers’ changing needs. Join us at the event to see our vegetable innovations, including:
- New brassica, lettuce, spinach varieties adding value for growers.
- A selection of our onion varieties, including our first red Rijnsburger!
- Varietal disease resistance strategies.
- Brassica management with biostimulants and endophytes.
- New UK products like Onion Squash, Butternut Squash, Kohl Rabi, Pointed Cabbage.
- New brassica fungicide trials.
- Vegetable application techniques including Syngenta 3D Ninety nozzles.
- Operation Pollinator environmental seed mixtures to support wildlife on farms and deliver production benefits.
Among the full range of brassica and leafy salad seeds varieties on show, we have new varieties in all sectors including summer broccoli, resistant wholehead lettuce, vigorous sprouts for the Christmas market and our brand-new range of crispy babyleaf.
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds brassica specialist, Louis Stokes, highlights the new Brussels sprout variety Lucius, providing yield and reliability for the Christmas market.
Trials will also show Syngenta’s highly regarded spinach varieties that span the full season of production and can offer full resistance to the recently declared new races of Bremia downy mildew affecting crops across Europe.
“Disease resistance is an increasing area of attention for growers and an essential part of integrated control strategies,” advocated Louis.
“In both spinach and lettuce varieties the Syngenta breeders are successfully working to keep ahead of new strains.”
Additional disease resistance trials in savoy cabbage will demonstrate the comparative value of varietal clubroot, white blister and ringspot resistance, and how that can be utilised in adding resilience and flexibility within the season’s fungicide programme.
The crop protection plots will display a new Syngenta fungicide solution for disease control in brassica, addressing systemic downy mildew and building on the success of ORONDIS® Plus disease control in salads and onion crops. Syngenta will also be demonstrating the control of challenging diseases, such as light leaf spot, on processing cabbage using our new Adepidyn® technology.
Syngenta continues to expand our dedication to rigorous research by developing proven biological technologies. Trial plots on the site will evaluate the crop growth benefits delivered by QUANTISTM and Radifarm in cauliflower, along with trials focussing on atmospheric nitrogen-fixing products aimed at reducing nitrogen inputs while preserving quality and yield.
“Broccoli growers have continued to experience the challenges of weather impact, including temperature stress,” says crop protection Technical Manager Simon Jackson. “There’s a need to enhance resilience and efficiency in the face of more frequent and intense stress events in the future,” he highlights.
The Syngenta 3D ninety nozzles have been used for the trial applications and have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving results with potato blight sprays in large crop canopies. Our research explores opportunities for this technology in Brussels sprout and other large brassica crops, as well as dense leafy salads.
This year, we are also excited to welcome back ROBOTTI, an autonomous agricultural tool carrier capable of completing a wide range of in-field tasks. See ROBOTTI in action at our Open Days and meet the founders of Autonomous Agri Solutions.
"Syngenta is dedicated to investing in and bolstering the vegetable sector in the UK through new advancements and sustainable technologies.” said Louis Stokes.
“The Innovation Centre Open Days serve as a platform to display our collaboration with growers and provide customers with an opportunity to preview upcoming developments. We are looking forward to warmly receiving them at the event."
Registration for the Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Innovation Centre Open Days is now open.
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