Arable Farming

Bayer is piloting a programme that pays farmers to adopt more climate-friendly practices that sequester carbon.

Last year, Bayer announced it was developing a new business model that meant it would share some of the risk associated with growing crops with its customers.

AHDB’s light leaf spot preliminary forecast shows that the disease risk to winter oilseed rape (OSR) ranks among the lowest recorded in recent years.

Unsettled weather has resulted in some winter wheat crops now being drilled later than initially planned. This means some important adjustments to autumn agronomy may be needed

In stark contrast to last year’s crop, sufficient moisture in August has meant early-sown oilseed rape crops have grown through the ‘danger period’.

The UK’s winter linseed area is set to more than double on last year as growers look to alternative break crops to oilseed rape.

The Lower House of the French parliament has voted for an emergency authorisation for use of neonics in beet seed coating.

Cereals offer greater health and nutrition benefits than commonly acknowledged, despite often being considered ‘nutrient-poor’, a study has found.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been jointly awarded to two women for the development of a method of genome editing used in animal and plant science.

With more data in from Scotland, the 2020 average treated yield of control varieties from 14 AHDB Recommended List (RL) spring barley trials is 7.94 tonnes/hectare, ahead of the five-year average