Agronomy

Liquid fertiliser additives and living mulch trials to create home-grown fertility are being trialled as solutions to the ongoing fertiliser crisis.

Many growers are already looking to combat insecticide use on-farm, but other agricultural inputs could also be having an impact on beneficial insect populations.

Claims that gene editing (GE) could produce food with a higher nutrient density or cope better with adverse weather should be approached with cynicism, visitors to Oxford Real Farming Conference heard.

A packed LAMMA show saw information and advice being shared across the halls. Alice Dyer and Ash Burbidge picked up some arable business tips from exhibitors.

Corteva Agriscience, the manufacturers of Inatreq active, has offered fresh advice on the fungicide’s application for the 2023 season.

Machinery agnostics platform, DataBaler, enables data insights and machinery applications to become accessible to farmers through one integrated system.

A network of connected weather stations is being rolled out across the UK to help growers and agronomists make crop management decisions.

A new study is seeking to tackle weed infestation and herbicide resistance by detecting and quantifying arable weed seeds in the soil using environmental DNA technologies.

With bigger weather events now increasingly common setting up spring barley crops so they produce well-developed root structures has become much more important.

There is ‘huge opportunity’ to optimise wheat production to aim for the bottom end of greenhouse gas emissions, attendees at the AHDB Agronomists’ Conference heard.