Arable

The Farm Sprayer Operator of the Year Award is now open to entries.

The horticultural industry has established a grower-owned working group to provide support to a successor body to AHDB Horticulture to take over processing of EAMU applications and emergency authorisations.

This October, the cereals industry will be given the chance to decide whether to move away from the current paper grain passports and move to a digital system.

As nitrogen prices remain high, growers are being urged to consider how they can tailor and optimise their nitrogen products and application rates for the 2023 crop.

WITH further rainfall seen in the last fortnight, the risk for phoma leaf spot infection is now considered high as 20 days of rain has been recorded in most areas across the country, warns ADAS.

Growers are being urged to hold their nerve in bad black-grass fields.

Well, harvest 2022 is officially over and it was our biggest harvest to date, with 300 hectares (740 acres) of combinables under our belts.

Some retailers have been threatening growers with delisting for requesting cost price increases, Farmers Guardian has learned.

Predicted increased rainfall means an arable conversion is ‘unlikely’ for livestock farmers in current predominantly livestock regions.

Fourayes has been sold to multinational baking, patisserie and chocolate ingredients company Puratos UK