Crops

The first harvest results for AHDB Recommended List (RL) winter wheat trials have been published. Results include three treated sites, two from Lincolnshire and one from Hampshire.

Progress in wheat harvesting has been rapid in the last week or so, amid high temperatures, however, yields are very variable depending on soil type.

Scientists at the James Hutton Institute are working to understand the interactions between pathogen pectobacterium atrosepticum and an array of soil-microbe-crop interactions in the development of blackleg.

Amy Wilkinson, 24, farms with her dad in Halsall, Lancashire. She rears 550 beef cattle through to finishing and farms 243 hectares (600 acres) of arable land.

Potatoes in areas that have seen hot, dry weather recently are senescing more quickly than normal, particularly in unirrigated crops.

The potato giant has launched its McCain Potato Farmer Pledge as it looks to make its farmers’ businesses sustainable for the future

The NFU has launched its annual harvest survey. After a challenging year, NFU combinable crops board chairman Matt Culley explains why taking part in this survey is important.

This Government’s sugar plans, whether changing the tariff regime or refusing to reconsider the neonics ban for beet, prove no Minister is backing British farming, says Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley.

The 2019/20 Beet Delivery Service Report, including results from a survey on the BDS has been published by British Sugar and NFU Sugar.

Greenpeace said cane sugar refiners Tate and Lyle would be the beneficiary of the changes