Crops

With harvest now underway around the country, Cedric Porter takes a look at the market for barley this season

In the last of our series on cultivations, Mike Abram looks at how they can be used to improve control of grass-weed species.

Storm damage has led to winter barley and oilseed rape being flattened in some areas including Somerset and parts of East Anglia.

The first AHDB Recommended List (RL) harvest results – from three winter barley trial sites in Dorset, Lincolnshire and the Scottish Borders have been published.

Crop losses from last week’s European storms have already led to price rises

With winter barley harvest getting underway in the South, East and as far north as Yorkshire, early indications are of average yields but lower bushel weights and small grain size.

British Sugar has said it is ’surprised and deeply alarmed’ by the proposals

AHDB’s recently published Planting and Variety Survey shows improved 2020/21 autumn and winter planting conditions allowed GB grain areas to swing back to trend levels.

New Recommended List winter wheat varieties, of which there were several from Group 3, as well as candidates for Group 2 and hard Group 4 feed wheats attracted interest at Cereals.

A mixed farmer from Warwickshire who has diversified into growing and processing industrial hemp is calling on more farmers to consider the crop.