Arable Farming

As soil begins to dry out and conditions come right, sugar beet drilling has commenced in some parts of the country.

By the end of February we’d had nearly one metre of rain over the previous twelve months and well over 100 days of recordable rainfall since the intended start of drilling in late September.

Agricultural spray drones could be used as a rapid solution for accurately and automatically disinfecting urban areas contaminated with coronavirus.

CRD has announced that fungicide pencycuron, used to control black scurf in potatoes, cannot be applied for any purpose with immediate effect, according to Bayer, which markets pencycuron-containing Monceren.

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.

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.

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

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

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.