Arable

Prices £100/t down on May highs

Last autumn’s wide drilling window could add pressure to typical regional disease risks throughout 2023, growers are advised.

Sugar beet growers are facing increasing rejections at the factory this lifting campaign following frost damage and now wet weather.

A new app has been launched to aid help growers to select the most appropriate maize varieties based on specific use and location while benefiting farm profits

Wheat containing exotic DNA from wild relatives benefits from up to 50 per cent higher yields in hot weather compared withelite lineslacking these genes, researchers have found.

Wheat containing exotic DNA from wild relatives benefits from up to 50 per cent higher yields in hot weather compared withelite lineslacking these genes, researchers have found.

It takes years to breed, test and register new maize varieties which give UK growers the highest level of performance. Debbie James finds out more from the experts leading the maize breeding and trial work at farmer-owned co-operative Limagrain.

A new IPM Resource Toolbox has been launched to give farmers simpler to access digital resources that support a move towards using less chemistry.

With the tax landscape becoming increasingly complex, Ashcroft’s Richard Crane outlines some of the common issues seen by rural businesses.

Liquid fertiliser additives and living mulch trials to create home-grown fertility are being trialled as solutions to the ongoing fertiliser crisis.