Arable News

Test digs to assess tuber size are taken for granted as a tried-and-tested part of the crop season. However, technology is about to give growers an option to streamline the

With an abrupt end to a long period of dry, almost drought-like conditions, growers need to take every possible precaution to protect beans from chocolate spot and rust infections. That

Independent trials have found on average, a 19% improvement in potato blight control, simply by adding a low-cost drift retardant to the fungicide tank mix.

Promotion of spring malting barley variety Laureate to Full approval for both malt distilling and brewing uses on the Institute of Brewing and Distilling approved list of varieties for harvest 2018 has been welcomed as a major breakthrough for growers, by its breeder.

Growers should plan to use a robust T2 application based on the best SDHI chemistry this season, despite apparently low disease levels and ongoing dry weather. That’s the advice from

A new hybrid winter feed barley that is set to raise the yield bar for growers in Scotland and Northern England is being launched for this autumn. The new hybrid,

50 growers have been selected to take part in the BASF Real Results Circle wheat fungicide trials.

OSR plots tested in Herefordshire, Wales and the south west have revealed that between 80-100% of petals have tested positive for Sclerotinia.

Former AICC chairman Patrick Stephenson is seeing plenty of mildew, in both winter barley and wheat.

The UK seed potato sector loses an estimated £18m from potato viruses annually, a cost that could be dramatically reduced by one small change to spray programmes, according to research

Dow AgroSciences has today unveiled a brand new cereal herbicide which will deliver UK growers unparalleled control of key broad-leaved weeds in both the autumn and spring.

Growers are warned to stay vigilant for signs of powdery mildew in wheat and barley crops this spring. With the relatively mild winter, the disease has already been seen in