Arable News

Harvest conditions have improved considerably in the past week following a catchy start, AHDB said in the recently published first harvest progress report for 2024. 

A Cambridgeshire farmer and CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) explained how the environment-friendly practices help him boost yields. 

Adama Agricultural Solutions UK Ltd. has announced a change to its organisational structure following the decision by current go to market director, Steve Beal, to retire. 

With UK wheat drillings having been reduced considerably by the wet autumn and spring, quality wheat straw for bedding will be at a premium, Harvest Tec experts predict. 

One Suffolk farm currently harvesting grass seed says yields are looking good – and they have also had success using a new stripper header.

After a difficult autumn, there is an understandable tendency to drill earlier next season to guarantee wheat area. But what impact could this have on weed control?

Farmers around the UK have taken to the fields during the recent warm and sunny weather, to progress harvest in both barley and oilseed rape, as well as making a start on winter wheat.

The new flagship New Holland CR11 combine, previewed at Agritechnica 2023, was present at the official harvest 2024 launch of the new design.

Potato crops have endured long periods of weather conditions highly conducive to blight this season. Reports of blight outbreaks submitted for testing with the Fight Against Blight campaign have now topped 135 incidences across the UK. 

British Sugar and NFU Sugar say they have concluded negotiations and agreed a deal for the 2025/26 sugar beet contract.

UK livestock farmers have been warned of the potential risk to their animals posed by two types of fungi in grain. 

With this year’s harvest underway, with the help of increasingly large and impressive machinery, we take a trip down memory lane, to the harvests of decades gone by.