Agronomy

Three years’ worth of trials across three-five sites in Scotland found that yield responses to GS30/31 applications were unlikely in low risk scenarios.

Here is why using nodal growth stages will not be a good indicator of leaf 3 emergence this season.

Calling a halt to Skyfall drilling in mid-March, we have between zero and 30% of our planned wheat acreage in the ground.

It has been eight years since Tim Parton began using biostimulants and since their introduction, yield plateaus have been broken, chemical fungicides have been abolished and disease bills average £40/hectare.

Farming groups have warned against plans to cut the use of synthetic pesticides by 80 per cent by 2030 and to phase out their use completely by 2035.

The thing about being a columnist for a national publication such as Arable Farming is you cannot hide from what you have written in previous months.

With much of the country working from home and most industry events cancelled, BASIS has taken the decision to relax its CPD requirements for Professional Register members.

The threat posed by potential resistance to key residual herbicide, flufenacet, could bring harvest weed seed management further to the fore in the UK