Author Posts: Farmers Guide

  New Holland Agriculture will expand its wide offering with new implement product lines as a result of CNH Industrial’s agreement to acquire the agricultural Grass and Soil business of

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good

Numbers of Myzus persicae aphids being caught in Rothamsted monitoring is running seven times higher than this time last year, and currently ahead of the serious risk year of 2014.

Unusually high levels of wheat yellow rust, observed in AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) trials during 2016, have resulted in an early and major revision to disease ratings.

Select the right wheat for the late drilling slot to avoid unnecessary yield penalties. Where drilling has been delayed for either black-grass management, a second wheat situation or for those

A new post-emergence residual herbicide which can enhance black-grass control levels in winter wheat has been introduced this season.

Despite September 2016 being warm growers are being advised to check OSR crops for phoma. The ‘Indian summer’ has seen much of the country bask in warm sunshine but there

Harvest results from farms around England in 2016 have shown winter feed wheat variety Reflection delivered some impressive yields in its first year, despite a season of intense disease pressure,

The UK government’s own projections expect solar and wind power to be cheaper than nuclear power by the time Hinkley Point C is completed (as reported in an article in

Glencore Grain is to launch a new animal feed products marketing business in the UK, providing feed compounders and manufacturers with direct access to the company’s huge global resource of

Muntons, one of the UK’s leading producers of malt for brewing and food manufacturing uses, has appointed the farmer-owned grain co-operative Openfield Agriculture as one of its two newly created

Plans to stage a national dairy joint show in September have fallen through as Holstein UK – the UK’s leading dairy industry support organisation – has been unable to reach