Arable Farming

October 2021 Arable Farming Issue

AHDB has issued the Recommended Lists (RL) 2022/23 septoria tritici ratings early, following high levels of the disease in the 2020/21 growing season and concerns about the breaking of resistance.

Dry rot risk is high in Scotland this year and seed potato growers are being urged to apply tuber treatments as early as possible to prevent disease progression in store.

Dry rot risk is high in Scotland this year and seed potato growers are being urged to apply tuber treatments as early as possible to prevent disease progression in store.?

A project to detect potato diseases and defects before they hit supermarket shelves is being carried out by B-hive Innovations.

A new tool has been introduced to help growers reduce the risk of water pollution and the loss of pulse and potato post-emherbicide,bentazone.

WITH British Sugar’s Bury St Edmunds factory opening earlier than usual this year, the 2021/22 sugar beet campaign has kicked off in Suffolk.

The combination of a late harvest and lorry driver shortages could mean cereal seed delivery delays on-farm as late as mid-October, the seed industry is warning.

The high of a good growing season for sugar beet crops is now being curbed by concerns that the HGV driver shortage will leave factories backed up and growers having to deliver their own beet.

A UK funded study has identified several promising sources of virus yellows which could be used in commercial sugar beet crops via genome editing (GE).