Arable Farming

With drilling around the corner, Farmers Guardian explores key considerations for spring barley crops this season, whatever the end market.

Early aphid migration, spring drought and cercospora infection at levels never seen before led to the perfect storm for sugar beet crops in 2020.

2021 seems to be the year of the consultation. By the time you read this, the urea consultation will have closed, and no doubt growers will have had communication from Red Tractor regarding the opening of its V5 standards consultation.

Winter seems to be progressing in the normal way, with December being suitably wet and the last field destined for winter wheat will now be planted with spring wheat.

Happy New Year. I hope you all had some form of rest and normality over the festive period. Like many of you, I was happy to see the back of 2020 while filled with excitement for what the new year has in store for us. Well at this moment in time I am slightly concerned that 2021 is just 2020 reappearing in disguise.

How farmers clear their fields of cover crops is being investigated by a final year Harper Adams University student.

ADM has announced a new supply chain initiative in which its UK origination business, ADM Agriculture, will become the sole supplier for ADM Milling’s Tilbury site from harvest 2021.

ADM has announced a new supply chain initiative in which its UK origination business, ADM Agriculture, will become the sole supplier for ADM Millings Tilbury site from harvest 2021.

February 2021 Arable Farming Issue

No-till growers produce a tonne of wheat for £23/tonne less than the average UK farm, according to the latest analysis of benchmarking data by Land Family Business.