Crops

Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.

What started as an escape during the Covid lockdown has snowballed into a popular veg box scheme at one Welsh farm.

Machinery agnostics platform, DataBaler, enables data insights and machinery applications to become accessible to farmers through one integrated system.

Expanding from the original one-hectare plot to a 35-hectare autonomous farm is just one of the developments the Hands Free farm has achieved over the past six years

A network of connected weather stations is being rolled out across the UK to help growers and agronomists make crop management decisions.

New packaging for Nemathorin nematicide granules has been created to enable clean and efficient operation during potato planting.

As 2022 draws to a close, Cedric Porter reflects on the year and assesses 2023

Rob farms on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border with his parents and young family, growing combinable and forage crops with a mix of owned, tenanted and contracted land. An agronomist for Edaphos, Rob also hosts AHDB Monitor Farm events.

Rob farms on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border with his parents and young family, growing combinable and forage crops with a mix of owned, tenanted and contracted land. An agronomist for Edaphos, Rob also hosts AHDB Monitor Farm events.

Farmers and agronomists will face reduced crop protection product choices and increased costs due to the withdrawal of parallel import licenses following the UK’s departure from the European Economic Area (EEA), according to Clayton Crop Protection.