Winter Oilseed Rape 2017 Harvest Results – 8/8

Winter Barley 2017 Harvest Results – 1/8

The latest winter barley trial results include sites from Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Cheshire and Morayshire.
The overall yield average from five trials in 2017 is 9.58 t/ha, contributing to a five-year average yield of 9.60 t/ha.

Winter Oilseed Rape 2017 Harvest Results – 1/8

The four-year average gross output yields are a better measure of variety performance over several seasons, since this week’s oilseed rape results have information from just two trials from Oxfordshire and Suffolk.

Winter Barley 2017 Harvest Results – 25/7

The Harvest Results (24 July 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials include sites from Teesside, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire and Hampshire.

Investment in innovative formulations

Nufarm says it continues to invest in developing innovative formulations and one of its real successes is the product Kyleo – a special state of the art herbicide containing glyphosate

Oilseed rape to get potassium boost

Autumn establishment is fundamental to a successful and healthy crop able to with stand the autumn stresses of disease and pest attack. At this stage the crop is very dependant

Online support for UK OSR growers

With the recent Limagrain TuYV survey showing infection levels up to 90% in some of the UK’s key OSR growing areas, yield losses from TuYV can be expected to be high

Sugar beet contract offers announced

British Sugar and NFU Sugar have announced their agreement on sugar beet contract terms for 2018/19. This year the new beet contract will continue to offer both one year and three year contracts, each with market-linked bonus elements. 

Assisting growers with varietal selection

Identifying the varieties best-suited to your local market and farm situation can be a major challenge. There is much to consider and market demand varies from region to region. With

High yielding, early to harvest wheat variety bucks the trend

Winter wheat variety LG Motown is set to interest those growers who are looking for a new early maturing wheat with high yields, says breeder Limagrain UK. LG Motown is

Don’t become complacent with take-all control

Take-all is endemic to British soils, posing a major risk to farmers growing second and subsequent wheats, equating to yield losses of up to 4t/ha.

Solutions for black-grass in the west

Modern arable farming means black-grass is posing an increasing threat to growers in the west of the country where historically it was less of a problem. Therefore, it has never

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