Arable News

Potato growers have not been left without help thanks to AKP Group that offers an end-to-end complete potato supply chain.

Omnivent offers advice around what the ideal potato storage process should look like.

An Essex-based importer and stockist of EP lithium-ion forklifts, Armill Lift Trucks, is at the forefront of advancing lithium-ion technology in the materials handling sector.  

Potato growers interested in industrial packaging have been offered help by Agrisacks. The Scottish family-run company aims to meet the demands of the potato industry with good quality packaging at competitive prices.

In September, Hutchinsons invited growers to its annual Environmental Demonstration Day, entitled SFI: Right action, right place. Rachel Hicks was there.

Peterborough-based Garford Farm Machinery has announced the launch of the next generation, multi-modal vision guidance system.  

Unseasonably warm conditions have continued to allow sugar beet crops to remain green and productive, helping to further improve root yield and sugar content, the British Beet Research Organisation has reported. 

Sugar beet fell from a lorry, damaging a car in a Norfolk village. The incident happened on Tuesday morning, 22nd October, near Lingwood, located approximately eight miles east of Norwich. 

Farmers have been reminded that following the expiry of the active substance approval earlier this year, the sale and supply of any plant protection product containing mancozeb will close at the end of November 2024. 

Cecilia Pryce explores the future impacts of extreme weather, while Lucy Hassall offers an update on volatile fertiliser markets.

Nick Morris, of British Sugar, and Arthur Marshall, NFU Sugar, spoke on a recent BBRO podcast about changes to the UK seed account.

Following concerns that availability of sugar beet seed from British Sugar is extremely limited and all BCN varieties are sold out, SESVanderHave confirms that its stock is still available.