There was wall-to-wall sunshine for the UK’s premier arable farming event, Cereals 2014, held over two days, 11 and 12 June, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire. As the showcase of products and services for farmers, it is always surprising how few professional pest control businesses take space at the event.
The traffic queues on all roads surrounding the event bore testament to the huge number of visitors Cereals regularly attracts. Those who were trying to commute to work must have been cursing but, having made it to the car park and completed the half mile trek to the entrance, what was there to see from a pest control perspective?
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This year there were estimated to be almost 25,000 visitors and some 500 companies exhibiting. The event covered a massive 64 ha. Just to give you some idea, a football pitch is generally around 1 hectare so imagine 64 of those side-by-side and you get the picture. Command Barrettine Featured on the stand and new to Barrettine, was the insecticide AquaPy, manufactured by Bayer. The company was promoting the use of AquaPy in ULV foggers for grain store fumigation as an alternative to traditional smoke generators, which explained the competition on the stand to win a Vectorfog entry level ULV machine. Bayer |
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LODI-UK More importantly, with the World Cup in Brazil in mind, Lodi had rigged up a footie game. Hit the crossbar and win £100. Yours truly had a go but whilst I definitely got points for style, accuracy was far from perfect and a zero score was recorded. No chance of winning the £100 then!k |
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Plenty of items to pick-up and competitions to enter Left, David Shelton from Barrettine and right Bayer’s Ken Black 
Pest associate editor, Helen Riby, looks the part but lacks the accuracy!