Arable News

The UK Pesticide Guide is the key authoritative reference for advisors, growers, contractors, local authorities and many others managing the impact of pests and diseases.

Market research organisation Kleffmann Group, which conducts farmer surveys and panels, has identified from its GB Winter Oilseed Rape panel that there has been significant loss of this year’s planted

Potato store managers will be able to call on information and support from an £800,000 fund ring-fenced for sprout suppression and storage advice as the uncertainty around the future of

The Metaldehyde Stewardship Group (MSG) has submitted a case to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to extend the withdrawal period of metaldehyde from 18 to 24 months for professional use slug pellet products.

Growers are being urged to make spring seed decisions early, as popular varieties are likely to be in short supply.

Integrated pest management (IPM) will play increasing role in UK crop production post-Brexit and independent agronomists are leading the way in its implementation on farm.

The National Association of Agricultural Contractors (NAAC) mobile seed processors are continuing to encourage growers to test oilseed rape seed before farm saving.

Targeting wild oat applications in the spring can be particularly challenging for sprayer operators, according to Syngenta eastern counties application specialist, Harry Fordham, speaking at Lamma.

Winter cereal growers facing uncontrolled black-grass brought on by early drilling and the dry autumn are being urged to make an honest appraisal of its likely economic impact, in order

30% of wheat grown in the UK still doesn’t receive sulphur applications however as a macronutrient and to avoid the risk of deficiency, every cereal crop should have some sulphur applied to it– every year is the advice from Tim Kerr, Fertiliser manager with Hutchinsons.

Increased difficulty controlling the UK’s number one wheat disease is prompting crop protection experts, Syngenta, to focus extra research effort in the West of the country to find ways of tackling the problem – an area where it poses a particular risk.

The AHDB GREATsoils programme has been signposted as a vital resource and tool for growers as part of two new soil qualifications from BASIS, the independent standards setting and auditing organisation.