The last season has really highlighted where soil health can be improved, particularly when coping with both too much and too little water. Soil expert Dick Neale offered his top tips on soil management ahead of the drill.

A research project in the USA exploring the feasibility of vertically farmed wheat has found yields of 39 tonnes per hectare could be achieved within just 70 days when grown under optimum artificial conditions.

Yields of both winter barley and winter oilseed rape are highly variable, both within and between farms.

Symptoms of what is believed to be stem rust disease were found in untreated plots of winter wheat at four sites at Oak Park Crop Research Centre in Carlow, Ireland last week.

A public consultation into post-Brexit regulation of precision breeding techniques such as gene editing (GE), will take place this autumn Government has announced.

The characteristics that make up the best performing cereal farms in England have been explored using data from Defra’s Farm Business Survey.

Several grain merchants including ADM and Frontier have announced they will no longer be sending grain samplers on to farms, following growing concerns over health and safety.

A farmer from Ashburton, New Zealand, has won the Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield for the second consecutive time.

As pest control and extreme weather put sugar beet crops under pressure, BBRO’s online BeetField20 Virtually Live events provided growers with some pointers to adapting to the changing meteorological and political climate.

The weather has not been kind to oilseed rape this season and the threat of flea beetle has left many growers questioning the future viability of the crop as yield information comes in.