Arable

With more data in from Scotland, the 2020 average treated yield of control varieties from 14 AHDB Recommended List (RL) spring barley trials is 7.94 tonnes/hectare, ahead of the five-year average

AHDB has confirmed it has received valid requests for a ballot from more than five per cent of horticulture levy payers

Suffolk farmers Richard and Natasha Mann are planning to hand over their busy arable farm and potato business and take a well-earned retirement. But, as they told Clemmie Gleeson, they have no plans to give up their Yarn Hill

Niab and the University of Cambridge have announced the opening of their Crop Science Centre, an alliance between the two organisations designed to fast-track technologies to sustainably improve farmers’ yields worldwide.

Ongoing uncertainty regarding Brexit and the UK’s future trading relationship with the EU.

The WTO permits measures to protect the environment in certain circumstances, so Ministers should insist our future trading partners meet domestic food production standards, says Conservative peer Anne McIntosh.

The UK Government’s decision to table legislation which undermines the Withdrawal Agreement shows Boris is not negotiating with the EU in good faith, says County Meath beef farmer Eamon Cassells.

MPs who voted down an Agriculture Bill amendment to ban low-standard imports in May could have been waiting for a Government concession. But if they choose to reject another similar Lords amendment in two weeks, they will not be forgiven, says Tom Lancaster, head of land use policy at the RSPB.

With 2021 set to usher in a new era of change to trading arrangements, farm support and crop protection regulation, how will Brexit affect the cereals sector?

It has been a disappointing start to sugar beet harvest for Lincolnshire grower, Tilly Ireland who began lifting the 280-hectare crop slightly early after the Newark British Sugar factory opened on September 22.