Agronomy

Potato giant, PepsiCo has been trialling CCm Growth for the last three years and for the first time this season the company is rolling out trials commercially.

With climate change and increasing temperatures , there comes an increasing opportunity to grow sunflowers in the UK.

Researchers have revealed for the first time how a mechanism that controls root development in plants enables them to cope better with environmental stress conditions.

Farmers Guardian catches up with three farmers to find out how their winter wheat is looking and what’s on their minds for the weeks ahead.

Since the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) was established by ADAS 10 years ago, it has recorded multiple crop world records, droughts, floods and a fertiliser crisis.

New rules on the use of urea fertilisers will be implemented from this year, Defra has confirmed.

If heavy rainfall and challenging ground conditions prevent T0 fungicide applications, industry experts advise growers to increase T1 application rates 

Simon Nelson advises farmers on a wide range of arable and forage crops across Cumbria, north Lancashire and into south west Scotland.

Yellow rust has become a bigger yield-robber than septoria for one Midlands farm, despite him farming some distance from the disease’s traditional eastern counties hotspot.

Chemistry is fast disappearing from farming’s toolbox, but researchers and farmers in Scotland are working together to trial alternative solutions to protect the high health status of the seed potato industry.