Arable

SCIENTISTS have refined a transformational process that allows nitrate to be captured from drinking water for use in agriculture as a liquid fertiliser.

Spray quality is key to achieving full protection of the ear and deposition should override output.

The logical home for SDHIs is the T1 and T2 timings but in this unusual season including an SDHI in T3 sprays could make sense.

McCain has pledged to implement regenerative agriculture practices across 100 per cent of its global potato acreage — representing 150,000 hectares by 2030.

Cooler temperatures have so far halted septoria progress, but the disease is expected to ramp up in the coming weeks following the bout of warmer weather.

An increased grant offering has been announced to encourage the planting of cover crops to improve soil structure on Midlands farms and protect water quality, as part of the wider Severn Trent Environment Protection Scheme.

As AHDB Potatoes begins to wind down activities following the ballot vote in March, it has announced the AHDB Market Intelligence provision of potato price information will cease in July.

Thirteen European food and farming groups have joined forces to call on the EU to complete a ‘holistic’ impact assessment of the target to reduce pesticide use by 50 per cent by 2030.

Farmers were having to make difficult decisions on fertiliser purchases with both wheat and fertiliser prices high

Warmer temperatures are encouraging aphids to fly, and an increase in aphid numbers is now being widely reported and recorded across the British Beet Research Organisation’s (BBRO) yellow water pan network.