Arable Farming

Last week’s warmer weather gave crops a much-needed boost as they exit a cold, wet winter.

April 2021 Arable Farming Issue

The ballot on continuation of the AHDB Potatoes levy saw more than 66 per cent of participants vote against. Alice Dyer and Marianne Curtis gauge reaction.

Members of the Phosphite Biostimulant Stewardship Group (PBSG) are urging regulators in Brussels to review the terms of the recently adopted Fertilising Products Regulation (EU) 2019/1009

Industry has applied for renewal of the approval of the fungicide, mancozeb in Great Britain.

A decent spell of spring weather has seen field work progress up and down the country. However, delays to sugar beet seed deliveries on-farm are holding up drilling for some growers.

The first crop of Dyson Farming’s strawberries from its new six-hectare glasshouse in Carrington, Lincolnshire will hit supermarket shelves this week.

Farmers deciding to enter the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot scheme later this year following a recent call for expressions of interest will have the choice of eight ‘standards’.

Differences in soil management are likely to account for N-min testing results that have either been not as low as expected or extremely low, following a wet winter, according to Dick Neale, technical manager at Hutchinsons.

With oilseed rape about to enter its critical flowering period, AHDB has announced it will run its sclerotinia infection risk alerts service again this season to help growers better target sprays.