Arable Farming

The Farm Sprayer Operator of the Year Award is now open to entries.

The horticultural industry has established a grower-owned working group to provide support to a successor body to AHDB Horticulture to take over processing of EAMU applications and emergency authorisations.

This October, the cereals industry will be given the chance to decide whether to move away from the current paper grain passports and move to a digital system.

WITH further rainfall seen in the last fortnight, the risk for phoma leaf spot infection is now considered high as 20 days of rain has been recorded in most areas across the country, warns ADAS.

Growers are being urged to hold their nerve in bad black-grass fields.

Predicted increased rainfall means an arable conversion is ‘unlikely’ for livestock farmers in current predominantly livestock regions.

Hundreds of acres of valuable Lincolnshire farmland are set to be lost if a proposed 5sq.km reservoir is given the go-ahead.

Using sheep to graze oilseed rape has helped one Midlands grower reduce pesticide use and, with careful management, not compromise yields.