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Fungicide performance in cereals and oilseed rape
Our fungicide performance work provides high-quality, independent information on the relative efficacy of fungicides against key diseases in wheat, barley and oilseed rape.
Why is fungicide efficacy data important?
Knowledge of the potential power of an active ingredient (or product) is essential in disease management. First and foremost, it will help you gauge the potential return on your spray investments. Critically, it can be used to develop effective fungicide programmes that balance the need to control disease with the need to protect chemistry from fungicide resistance.
Download the latest data
Download the 2025 fungicide performance results (all-data PDF)
Data released at the Agronomy Conference on 9 December 2025.
For key charts, visit the disease target web pages (via the links in the crop-specific sections below).
These pages mainly feature multi-year and multi-site data, which usually provide the best indication of efficacy.
For all the latest results, such as single-year charts, download the all-data PDF (via the link above).
Fungicide performance for wheat
Latest fungicide performance data for septoria tritici (key charts)
Latest fungicide performance data for rusts and head blight (key charts)
Wheat fungicide performance data 2025 video (coming soon)
Fungicide programmes for wheat
Foliar fungicide activity and seed treatment options for wheat
Disease targets
- Septoria tritici
- Yellow rust
- Brown rust
- Fusarium head blight
Fungicide performance for barley
Latest fungicide performance data for barley (key charts)
Barley fungicide performance data 2025 video (coming soon)
Fungicide programmes for barley
Foliar fungicide activity and seed treatment options for barley
Disease targets
- Rhynchosporium
- Ramularia
- Net blotch
We work closely with Teagasc (Agriculture and Food Development Authority) in the Republic of Ireland to share dose-response data, which includes data from barley powdery mildew and barley brown rust trials in Ireland.
Fungicide performance for oilseed rape
Latest fungicide performance data for oilseed rape (key charts)
Oilseed rape fungicide performance data 2025 video (coming soon)
Disease targets
- Light leaf spot
- Phoma leaf spot and stem canker
- Sclerotinia (historic data)
About the fungicide performance data
The fungicide performance trials:
- Produce reliable, relevant and independent results
- Are conducted across multiple sites and seasons
- Are in areas most likely to produce high pressure for the target disease(s)
- Use varieties that are highly susceptible to the target disease(s)
The fungicide performance results:
- Are used to create dose-response curves (charts), where each curve represents the average performance of a single fungicide product at various doses against a specific disease (in terms of disease control and yield impact)
- Curves are published for ‘protectant’ and ‘eradicant’ situations, where applicable
- Generally, when more fungicide is applied, less disease will be present in a crop
- When interpreted correctly, the curves can help identify the best products and doses – helping you strike a balance between disease control and cost efficiency
- Selecting more appropriate products and reducing doses also contribute to the sustainability of farming and the long-term viability of fungicides (as part of resistance management efforts)
If you are interested in the details behind the trials, including our research partners and historic data, visit our guide to fungicide performance page.
Guide to fungicide performance (and data archive)
Check the HSE plant protection product database for authorisation status
Fungicide research
Fungicide perfomance project phases
Fungicide performance in wheat, barley and oilseed rape (2025–28)
Fungicide performance in wheat, barley and oilseed rape (2018–24)
Fungicide performance in wheat, barley and oilseed rape (2015–18)
More fungicide research
Testing the performance of biofungicides (winter wheat pilot trials)
Fungicide resistance management guidance
Monitoring resistance to foliar fungicides in cereal pathogens
Further information and news
Wheat and barley disease management
Oilseed rape disease management
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