Soil

Potato growers are facing a different proposition when it comes to weed control this spring compared to 2022 following delayed planting of much of the UK’s maincrop.

Potato giant, PepsiCo has been trialling CCm Growth for the last three years and for the first time this season the company is rolling out trials commercially.

With climate change and increasing temperatures , there comes an increasing opportunity to grow sunflowers in the UK.

After taking over Hope Farm in 2000, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is using the land as a testbed to demonstrate how farmers can transition to more nature-friendly practices while remaining commercially profitable.

If heavy rainfall and challenging ground conditions prevent T0 fungicide applications, industry experts advise growers to increase T1 application rates 

Arable farmers are being encouraged to make early foliar phosphate applications to give crops a much-needed development boost this spring. 

The first fertiliser applications were applied to the 2023 ADAS Nutrition Challenge sites last week, starting the race to be crowned the winner of the best spring fertiliser management strategy.

Cover crops can play as important a role in Scotland as they do further south but there are some management differences.