Arable

The James Hutton Institute awarded the “Best Soil in Show” trophy during the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh last month

Climatic weather patterns and this year's challenging potato season have significantly increased the risks of alternaria.

Glyphosate has been found to be safe to use in farming by the European Food Safety Authority

The latest winners of the Winter Wheat Challenge have been announced

The Basis Paul Singleton Award has been awarded to Mark Denness for his project on seed treatments and their potential to reduce the use of pesticides and artificial nitrogen

Companion cropping oilseed rape can not only help overcome establishment challenges, but also substantially reduce the amount of herbicides leached into water courses, trials have found.

A pea and bean intercrop may seem like an unusual choice, but it could be a viable option as a feed crop with added agronomic benefits.

Visitors to this year’s Groundswell event were given lessons in the practical application of agroecology to make their farming systems more sustainable and resilient.

With black-grass particularly bad in some fields this season following last autumn’s early cereal drilling, Farmers Guardian gets a five-point plan for getting on top of the weed.

Supermarket giant shuts Bradford base in move to consolidate operations