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New grain feed business assures direct global supplies for UK feed mills

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

Malting barley strategic supplier appointed

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

UK Dairy Day to go ahead

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

Open autumn offers feed-saving bonus for livestock farmers

‘Use it or lose it’ is the clear message for livestock farmers with unusually abundant grass covers as we move into autumn. According to Helen Mathieu of forage experts Germinal

Silage still falling short of protein target

Following the latest forage update, experts are warning that crude protein levels in this year’s silage crops are two percent lower than target, which could impact livestock performance if the

Experts on hand to talk Sky Drills at Croptec

Experts from OPICO will be on hand at the Croptec event to give advice on the innovative Sky drill range, particularly helpful for growers considering how to move forward with

Autumn spraying key to grass weed control

Prioritising herbicide applications on newly drilled grass leys this autumn will be more effective than waiting until the spring and hold potential saving for farmers. The control of seedling weeds

Attention to detail can add value to maize silage

As farmers look to harvest their maize crops, attention to detail will pay dividends, guaranteeing a good looking crop in the field and resulting in a quality silage in the

Weetabix brings first harvest packs to market

Weetabix Food Company has released a range of limited edition ‘first harvest’ packs to mark the first of its ‘Yellow Box’ cereals to contain crop from Harvest 2016. Weetabix’s exclusive range

The “extra benefit” in black-grass programmes

Dr Paul Fogg, Crop Production Specialist for Frontier Agriculture Ltd says that herbicide programmes in trials this year generally worked well, but he acknowledged that the mild and wet winter

Protect OSR with tebuconazole at the first sign of LLS

With light leaf spot infections able to significantly detract from oilseed rape yield potential, UK growers must be ready to act at the first sign of the disease this autumn.

Robust genetics withstand tough season

Growers need to look behind the headline figures and fully understand the robustness of their wheat variety genetics, urges Ron Granger, arable technical manager with Limagrain UK. “This season we

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