Author Posts: Farmers Guide

The Peas Please project, which works to make vegetables more appealing, accessible and affordable for everyone now has 100 major businesses pledgers signed up. 

A free online resource could help farms to boost profits as well as build a more sustainable business.

Join Limagrain UK on the 5th May to explore the latest on-farm issues facing OSR growers.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson today saw first-hand the world-leading standards British farmers adhere to when he visited Stuart and Leanne Fairfax, livestock farmers in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire.

Specialist agriculture sector dealership K O Machines have recently supplied an 8.6m Muthing MU-Pro/F Vario front and rear mounted hydraulic folding flail to Newport, Shropshire based, leading UK salad grower, PDM Produce.

New partnership aims to provide farmers with new high-potential wheat varieties, enhancing sustainable agricultural practices.

A new virtual platform has launched, enabling farmers and farm workers to have their opinions heard – and get paid for them.

Running through a simple application checklist ahead of key T1 and T2 disease control programmes can deliver sizeable improvements in product performance and yield.

Spraying out badly infested areas of the crop is now a common tactic for controlling problem weeds such as black-grass and rye-grass in late spring. But sacrificing total yield for weed control means it is essential to do the job effectively.

Measuring pest populations should be carried out before any decisions are made on applying insecticides, the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has advised growers.

Last week, we published figures showing a big increase in agricultural tractor registrations recorded in March. This brought the total number of machines registered during the year to date to 3,259, 13% more than in the opening three months of 2020. Now, the Agricultural Engineers Association are releasing figures showing where these registrations were located within the UK and trends for different power ranges.

The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS) has today launched its online entry portal for this year’s Royal Highland Showcase.