Agronomy

Recent wet weather in many parts of the UK, particularly in the North, has led to an increased risk of large slug populations.

Faced with Covid-19 related contraction of demand for spring barley and oats, many growers will want to take advantage of the scrapping of the three crop rule and maximise wheat area this autumn.

With the window to get winter crops drilled likely to be tight this year, following a later harvest in some areas, crop nutrition may be neglected.

Sowing spring beans this autumn could help solve the problem of short winter bean seed stocks caused by the difficult growing season of 2020, according to new research by PGRO.

Harvest is well underway here in North Yorkshire, albeit at a snail’s pace.

Early drilled oilseed rape (OSR) crops benefited from good weather conditions in August giving them an early boost ahead of cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) migration, although some crops have started to receive a hammering

The autumn and winter of 2019 is not one many will forget in a hurry, with farms throughout the UK struggling to get crops in the ground and conditions compromising establishment.