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  Kubota UK playing its part in aviation history Kubota UK is helping to keep a piece of aviation history alive by supporting Sally B, the last remaining airworthy B-17

Arriving just in time for the application season, Itcan SL 270 is a new, liquid formulation of maleic hydrazide registered for use in onion and potato crops. The maximum label

Timing of oilseed rape drilling should be determined by seedbed moisture ahead of any other factor.

Optimum establishment and rapid early growth are increasingly important to help oilseed rape crops outgrow cabbage stem flea beetle attacks as growers face a further season without neonicotinoid seed treatments.

This season sees the launch of a competition to help sugar beet growers close the gap between the theoretical potential of crops and actual farm yields. The British Beet Research

Pre-emergence herbicide application using 90% drift reducing nozzle technology can deliver significantly better Black-grass control, through improved soil surface coverage and timing. Final results of new trials at the Syngenta

The Harvest Results for this week (07 August 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials are from one site in Herefordshire and three northern sites in Scotland from the Borders, Fife and Angus.

  Concentrating on the hand tools needed for garage or workshop tasks, the new Sealey 2017 Hand Tool Promotion, available until 31st December 2017, features a variety of the company’s new

The latest winter barley trial results include sites from Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Cheshire and Morayshire.
The overall yield average from five trials in 2017 is 9.58 t/ha, contributing to a five-year average yield of 9.60 t/ha.

The four-year average gross output yields are a better measure of variety performance over several seasons, since this week’s oilseed rape results have information from just two trials from Oxfordshire and Suffolk.

The Harvest Results (24 July 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials include sites from Teesside, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire and Hampshire.