Arable Farming

Growers have until the end of November 2022 to use up all stocks of cyproconazole containing products.

Some long-awaited finer weather in the final week of August allowed harvest progress to ramp up, and as of September 7, 90 per cent of the UK’s winter wheat area had been harvested according to AHDB.

Yara has announced its first acquisition in the organic fertiliser segment, after adding Ecolan Oy, a Finnish producer of recycled fertilisers to its portfolio.

It would appear at the time of writing that British Summertime has called time early, with the past couple of weeks having much more of an autumn vibe.

It would appear at the time of writing that British Summertime has called time early, with the past couple of weeks having much more of an autumn vibe.

A project to facilitate more planting of miscanthus has been awarded over £150,000 of funding through the Government’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, to help contribute to 2050 net-zero targets. 

Bayer has joined the cross-industry group developing the easyconnect closed transfer system (CTS) in line with CropLife Europe’s commitment to make CTS universally available to European farmers and operators by 2030.

September 2021 Arable Farming Issue

With 2021 oilseed rape yields pegged to sit slightly above the five-year average and prices at all-time highs, the crop has helped to redeem itself this harvest.

Rothamsted Research has been granted permission by Defra to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited.