Crops

As pest control and extreme weather put sugar beet crops under pressure, BBRO’s online BeetField20 Virtually Live events provided growers with some pointers to adapting to the changing meteorological and political climate.

New spring oat varieties with higher kernel contents are coming through and finding acceptance among millers for food consumption markets. The spring oat crop also has benefits in terms of black-grass suppression.

Concerns are mounting about the impact of virus yellows on the future viability of the UK sugar beet crop.

Slurry and digestate can perform a useful role in replacing or supplementing artificial fertiliser. FGinsight got some top tips on how best to use it from Tramspread director Laurence Baker.

Britain’s food production system must transition away from an ‘oversimplified’ growth of commodities, in order to strengthen food security.

The 2020 AHDB Planting and Variety Survey has revealed a large swing to spring cropping due to poor autumn conditions.

Overall nitrogen rates applied to arable crops saw a 5kg/hectare decrease in 2019 compared with the previous year.

How the fodder stores have changed in three weeks. Throughout the first half of the year there have been significant concerns about tonnages of crops grown from grass all the way through to arable crops, largely as a result of difficult weather conditions.

Covid-19 has seen a spike in labour costs of up to 15 per cent leaving British growers in an ‘unsustainable’ situation, a new report has revealed.