Arable Farming

It has been a bumper year for wild oats and an integrated approach to control is needed to get on top of the weed for next season.

Farmers in the Midlands have until September 15 to apply for the final Farm to Tap scheme, focused on protecting water from metaldehyde.

A long-term trial into seed-borne disease in cereals has seen bunt and loose smut re-emerge after just two years without seed treatments.

With improved conditions for drilling in autumn 2020 , the Defra provisional arable crop areas for England figures confirm a return to a more balanced picture for harvest 2021.

Tortoise beetles have been found in a sugar beet crop in Wissington, Norfolk.

IN Gloucestershire wheat yields have made a welcome comeback after last year’s challenges for Bibury grower Ed Horton, with some fields yielding around double what they did at harvest 2020.

With a winter barley world yield record already in the bag this harvest, Lincolnshire grower Tim Lamyman had hopes of achieving a double by taking the world wheat yield record too.

FARMERS could see increases to the costs of abstraction licences and charges for the volume of water taken as part of the Environment Agency’s (EA) first overhaul of the system in 10 years.

Cover crops have had a rocky start in their introduction to some arable systems, particularly where the benchmark for success is a measure of financial return.

Unless a new agreement can be negotiated between the EU and the UK, the trade in seed potatoes either way across the English Channel can be considered to have ceased.