Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Oilseed rape has had a difficult year, with yields down across the board – but there are still advantages to growing it, as one grower in Cambridgeshire reveals. Philip Hart

Strong craft-brewing demand for high quality new two row winter malting barley, Rubinesse provides an opportunity for growers across central England to earn premiums of £10-£25/t from a specialist Agrii/Glencore

As harvest comes to the end, growers are turning their attention to decisions on rotations, seed varieties, and crop establishment. Some will already be discussing crop protection plans for the

Most oilseed rape growers have opted for earlier sowing this season, in an effort to get crops up and away ahead of flea beetle damage. Warm soils has certainly helped

  KUHN Farm Machinery will display a range of bedding, feeding and baling equipment at this year’s UK Dairy Day, with its self-propelled mixer/feeder wagon making one of its first

Cereal growers are being asked to safeguard the efficacy of aphicides by reporting control failures and sending off aphid samples for resistance analysis. The request forms part of a UK

Growers must hold-off drilling winter wheat on land affected by black-grass for at least another month or risk fire-fighting this pernicious weed for the rest of the season. That is

A farmer, broadcaster and a scientist will join The Oxford Farming Conference board (OFC) as its new directors in January 2017. Matthew Naylor, Anna Hill and Professor Nigel Scollan will

Three new companies have enrolled in the European Seed Treatment Association (ESTA), which is operated in the UK by the Agricultural Industries Confederation. The three companies are KWS UK Ltd,

The RPA must iron out a number of problems that still exist with 2015 BPS payments, the NFU said today, with less than three months until the 2016 window opens.

Sheep farmers in Scotland, North Wales and North West England should prepare for high levels of liver fluke disease this autumn, while cattle farmers across the UK must remain alert

With Defra still predicting a significant risk of an outbreak of bluetongue (BTV8) in the UK by the end of the summer, sheep and cattle producers are being urged to