Arable News

Despite a difficult autumn, the Cereals Event reports 100 per cent of exhibitor crop plots at the Cambridgeshire site were drilled and growing by the end of October.

A Yorkshire farm is hosting a special event to demonstrate how growing Miscanthus has helped to stabilise flooded soils and reduce flooding on the farm.

Failed oilseed rape that received autumn nitrogen will not impact on Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) limits for any replacement crop sown in the spring, advises agronomy firm Farmacy.

Alternative in-furrow fungicide treatment for Rhizoctonia solani.

Continued wet weather prolonging this autumn’s planting season means UK growers intend to plant 1.65 million hectares of wheat, compared with 1.82 million last year.

Rhizoctonia solani in soils could result in establishment losses of more than 80 per cent in oilseed rape.

Backward and slow-emerging winter cereal crops produced by late drilling will need careful nurturing through winter to minimise any further growth setbacks and set them up properly for spring, says leading agronomy firm, ProCam.

British farmers have persevered in the face of adversity to compete 89 per cent of the potato harvest during the wettest year so far since 2012.

While many growers are struggling to drill winter wheat crops, those that have managed to get some in the ground have also been contemplating the potential effects of the challenging conditions on weed control and crop safety from pre-emergence herbicides. 

AHDB has issued the Recommended Lists (RL) 2020/21 winter wheat disease ratings for yellow rust and brown rust ahead of the release of the full RL.

The average treated gross output of OSR control varieties is 5.12t/ha, which is below the four-year average value of 5.25t/ha.

ADAMA, BASF, Corteva Agriscience, Nufarm and Syngenta join forces to further improve the way crop protection products are handled in Europe by promoting the use of closed transfer system (CTS) technology.