Arable

Crop shortfalls were driving inventories to critically low levels with extraordinary volatility in the past 18 months in the global grains and oilseeds markets, according to Rabobank

Crop shortfalls were driving inventories to critically low levels with extraordinary volatility in the past 18 months in the global grains and oilseeds markets, according to Rabobank

A long-term trial into seed-borne disease in cereals has seen bunt and loose smut re-emerge after just two years without seed treatments.

Researchers working to combat cabbage stem flea beetle have been supported by a fresh injection of funds.

With improved conditions for drilling in autumn 2020 , the Defra provisional arable crop areas for England figures confirm a return to a more balanced picture for harvest 2021.

Tortoise beetles have been found in a sugar beet crop in Wissington, Norfolk.

IN Gloucestershire wheat yields have made a welcome comeback after last year’s challenges for Bibury grower Ed Horton, with some fields yielding around double what they did at harvest 2020.

With a winter barley world yield record already in the bag this harvest, Lincolnshire grower Tim Lamyman had hopes of achieving a double by taking the world wheat yield record too.

It was thought the project could transform crop production in Kenya and Malawi