Crops

A cross-industry taskforce is calling for UK oilseed rape growers to join an ambitious on-farm monitoring and trials programme in the war against cabbage stem flea beetle.

With maize drilling likely to start in less than 10 weeks, now is the time to finalise the details of managing the crop.

It is looking increasingly likely that the virus level forecast for the end of February 2021 will be below the threshold for triggering the Cruiser SB (thiamethoxam) derogation in sugar beet, says BBRO.

The next 5-6 weeks will be key to see whether farmers push the seed drill onto every available hectare.

With drilling around the corner, Farmers Guardian explores key considerations for spring barley crops this season, whatever the end market.

Early aphid migration, spring drought and cercospora infection at levels never seen before led to the perfect storm for sugar beet crops in 2020.

Happy New Year. I hope you all had some form of rest and normality over the festive period. Like many of you, I was happy to see the back of 2020 while filled with excitement for what the new year has in store for us. Well at this moment in time I am slightly concerned that 2021 is just 2020 reappearing in disguise.

Grain and oilseed analysts were watching Brazil to see the impact of wet weather on soybean harvesting and corn plantings.

ADM has announced a new supply chain initiative in which its UK origination business, ADM Agriculture, will become the sole supplier for ADM Milling’s Tilbury site from harvest 2021.

ADM has announced a new supply chain initiative in which its UK origination business, ADM Agriculture, will become the sole supplier for ADM Millings Tilbury site from harvest 2021.