Arable

Farms will need to monitor their costs more than ever as challenges greater than the weather set to perturb arable incomes in 2020 and beyond.

"There are so many opportunities for those with very different backgrounds to contribute to agriculture"

A Food Commission made up of industry professionals could make a valuable contribution to the UK’s post-Brexit trade talks, a leading expert has said.

FBT tenants face the prospect of being excluded from post-Brexit support because of a legal loophole in the Agriculture Bill.

Despite the challenging season, around 90-95 per cent of AHDB Recommended List (RL) cereals trials are on track to reach harvest this summer.

The Government has appointed Nicholas Saphir as the new chairman of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) from April 1, 2020 for a three year term.

Policies around climate change mitigation can bring financial benefits for farm businesses. Olivia Midgley reports from the Energy and Rural Business Show at Peterborough Arena.  

Fungicide active epoxiconazole was not among 30 plus actives which recently had their expiry dates extended to allow the EC longer to consider and process reapproval submissions.

Farmers whose crops have failed or are unable to get seed in the ground are now faced with the added stress of meeting crop diversification requirements in order to qualify for greening payments

The threat posed by potential resistance to key residual herbicide, flufenacet, could bring harvest weed seed management further to the fore in the UK