Arable Farming

A major recruitment campaign to encourage British people to provide seasonal labour amid the coronavirus outbreak will ‘open up’ opportunities for a future in agriculture, growers have said.

With much of the country working from home and most industry events cancelled, BASIS has taken the decision to relax its CPD requirements for Professional Register members.

Improved nutrient planning and more effective weed control is helping a Wiltshire dairy farmer improve forage crop production.

New varieties of winter wheat offering greater disease resistance may provide a solution to a lack of new chemistry or issues around applying treatment at the right time, given increasingly wet weather such as that experienced this year.

Balbirnie Home Farms at Freuchie in Fife has been selected to be the first AHDB strategic cereal farm for arable growers in Scotland.

AHDB has published guidance to ensure that combinable crop collections from farms and their delivery to a UK port, store or final use destination are maintained through the current coronavirus situation

Growers have launched a large-scale recruitment campaign to encourage British people to provide seasonal labour to harvest crops, due to a severe lack of local workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Good bolting characteristics for flexible drilling, beet cyst nematode (BCN) tolerance and a jump in yield are among the traits found in the seven new varieties added to the 2021 sugar beet Recommended List (RL).

The National Association of Agricultural Contractors (NAAC) has made its coronavirus guidance public in an effort to keep the industry safe and all contractors working in the current crisis.

Agricultural distribution and supply companies are working to minimise disruption to the logistics of getting products to farms, which could come about due to the coronavirus pandemic.