Arable

A major development in the field vegetable sector in Scotland has led to the merger of two of the country’s largest growing and marketing organisations.

In a new series for Farmers Guardian, the 11 new recruits on the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer (PYF) programme. Each month we follow one of the PYF’s to see what they are doing.

Simon Nelson advises farmers on a wide range of arable and forage crops across Cumbria, north Lancashire and into south west Scotland. He has worked for Agrovista for 23 years.

With more than a quarter of the 400 exhibitors at Cereals new for 2023, visitors will have the opportunity to explore trade stands, two stages, crop demonstrations and much more. Alice Dyer and Ash Burbidge report.

The high value equipment had been stolen from tractors in Cheshire

BASIS has launched a new training certificate in greenhouse gases, carbon and climate change mitigation.

BASIS implements three changes to NRoSO membership after taking over the scheme from City and Guilds.

With black-grass starting to rear its ugly head above crops this season, growers have until around the first week of June to decide what to do with badly affected areas, in order to prevent seed return.

A lack of progress in the renewal of the Black Sea export corridor deal between Ukraine and Russia was one of the main drivers in the grain market this week

Farmers with tricky grass-weeds to control are invited to take part in a new farmer-led project as part of the second year of trials on harvest weed seed control (HWSC).