Crops

Grower groups urged to adopt more environmentally friendly farming methods

'Buzz' around regen should not be allowed to detract from the work of organic farmers

Wet weather has hampered combining as farmers face looming storage worries

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Defra-funded project aims to not only improve growers' profit margins, but also reduce air pollution

Hopes extra data will help farmers manage the soilborne disease

Growers being urged to disinfect stores to reduce the carry-over of damaging diseases to the 2024 harvest

As harvest 2024 is now well under way, we caught up with three farmers to find out about their experience

Air-based approach could replace existing methods for detecting infection

Gross output value falls below four-year average