Arable News

Planned increases in the areas of many spring crops this season make it more important than ever to produce for secure markets offering price or premium guarantee, growers were advised

Spring crops are set to be as profitable as most winter plantings other than wheat and oilseed rape in 2018 according to the latest Agrii crop budgeting figures unveiled at a special briefing at Bishop Burton College this month.

Delegates at this year’s BCPC Congress heard first-hand what the key pillars of post-Brexit policy would be, when George Eustice MP, Minister for Agriculture, opened proceedings.

New field trials using rice grains to mimic black-grass seeds have clearly demonstrated the implications of different cultivation techniques for integrated management of weed populations.

Government must recognise that water is a vital ingredient of our food and is essential to the economic performance of the agri-food sector.

Winter cereals growers should not ignore broad-leaved weeds after reports of populations breaking through early applications of residual chemistry.   Two common scenarios have been identified by Dow AgroSciences’ field

The presence of a further ‘significant’ wheat yellow rust race in the UK has been confirmed by the UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS).

Three AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) spring barley trials are included in the latest Harvest Results released by AHDB.

Black-grass thrives in wet, waterlogged and poor draining soils, which makes field drainage, compaction and soil conditions top of the list of “watch-outs” this autumn.

In a bid to reduce the amount of nitrates being lost from agricultural land into surface and ground waters, potato growers should visit BP2017 to find out about the environmental

For many growers across the UK, the threat of BYDV is a familiar one, particularly after a very mild 2015 autumn led to some of the worst disease pressure seen

Harvest Results are reported (26 September) for a further four AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) spring barley trials.