Arable

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only disrupted supply chains, but it has also impacted on the industry’s workforce and its training needs. Hannah Binns reports on what has changed and the positive framework it has created going forwards.

The USDA will be publishing its April World Agricultural Stocks and Demand Estimates report on Friday, which could prove pivotal to the UK market.

Last week’s warmer weather gave crops a much-needed boost as they exit a cold, wet winter.

April 2021 Arable Farming Issue

Crop condition across Europe and the Black Sea will be a key focus as crops enter key production phases.

The ballot on continuation of the AHDB Potatoes levy saw more than 66 per cent of participants vote against. Alice Dyer and Marianne Curtis gauge reaction.

Members of the Phosphite Biostimulant Stewardship Group (PBSG) are urging regulators in Brussels to review the terms of the recently adopted Fertilising Products Regulation (EU) 2019/1009

Industry has applied for renewal of the approval of the fungicide, mancozeb in Great Britain.

A decent spell of spring weather has seen field work progress up and down the country. However, delays to sugar beet seed deliveries on-farm are holding up drilling for some growers.

Farmers were warning it could be the end of the British sugar industry if the processor did not take their concerns seriously