Arable

AHDB has released the first quality figures for the UK cereal harvest. The AHDB Cereal Quality Survey results examine quality in samples up to mid-August, just before the widespread rainfall later that month.

Harvest is well underway here in North Yorkshire, albeit at a snail’s pace.

A massive three-quarters of rural people believe crime in the countryside has increased over the past year, according to new research.

Covid-19, Brexit and the weather mean farmers are facing their biggest challenges for 50 years

There is no doubt 2020 will be remembered as a year of extremes. And not least because of the weather; flooded one minute, drought the next. 

Early drilled oilseed rape (OSR) crops benefited from good weather conditions in August giving them an early boost ahead of cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) migration, although some crops have started to receive a hammering

The Countryside Alliance has called on the BBC to apply its new impartiality rules to environmental activist and presenter Chris Packham.