Arable News

Check the leaf emergence in your wheat crops before deciding your T1 timing.

At a recent BASF meeting at NIAB, three farmers from very different locations discussed their approach to managing their wheat crops.

Relatively dry winter conditions across most of the UK mean farmers could potentially reduce the amount of nitrogen applied to cereals and oilseed rape.

One of Britain’s biggest flour millers is to offer buy-back contracts for the new Group 2 milling wheat, KWS Extase.

Farmers at AHDB’s Taunton Monitor Farm meeting this month were reminded to use fungicides and varieties wisely, to protect crop health and yields.

Potato and vegetable growers are providing a hugely valuable habitat resource for some increasing populations of solitary bees in the UK, with a novel Green Headland Mix planted around fields of growing crop.

Expanding malting and poultry feed markets – not to mention demand from breakfast cereal, baked goods and fish and pet food manufacturers – are creating growing opportunities for naked oat production across the country, according to added-value crop specialists, GB Seeds.

Our first ever supplement, a 28 page special supplement focussed on disease, weed and pest control.

Over the last three years, higher than expected levels of erucic acid have been found in oilseed rape seed which has been grown from double-low varieties.

Cereals is back but like you’ve never seen it before!

Seed breeding company, Limagrain UK, has published its latest guidelines on crops for game and wildlife management.

The BBRO has announced preliminary results from 2018 trials work to study the impact of virus yellows on 10 commercial sugar beet varieties.  This trial was sown on 12th May 2018