Concerns are mounting about the impact of virus yellows on the future viability of the UK sugar beet crop.

The 2020 AHDB Planting and Variety Survey has revealed a large swing to spring cropping due to poor autumn conditions.

Overall nitrogen rates applied to arable crops saw a 5kg/hectare decrease in 2019 compared with the previous year.

Arable Scotland will take place in a virtual format today, organised and hosted by the James Hutton Institute, AHDB, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and Farm Advisory Service.

A new tool, SeedGerm - based on machine learning-driven image analysis – is able to test seed samples to ensure a certain germination rate is met in a low-cost, high-throughput and semi-automated way.

A spread to watch as we head into new crop will be the imported maize price compared with domestic feed wheat delivered to feed mills.

French insect-based animal feed and fertiliser company Ynsect has just gained approval for its natural insect fertiliser YnFrass from ANSES, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety.

Recent hot, humid weather has increased the risk of potato late blight with Hutton Criteria periods being triggered in several regions in the last few days.

Options have been suggested for the Environment Land Management scheme (ELMS) by a farm taking part in trials for the scheme.

KWS has launched a new high yielding hard Group 4 winter wheat and 2-row winter barley at Cereals Live 2020.