Crops

Floods and drought paint mixed picture for bloc amid growing heatwave warning

Helen is a fifth-generation farmer who farms with her parents, David and Anne Shaw, husband, Craig, and their children, Alfred and Hattie, at Grey Leys Farm in the Vale of York. The farm comprises 162 hectares (400 acres) of grass, maize and wholecrop for the herd of 240 pedigree Jersey cows and more than 200 followers.

Over the last few months, the digital passport leadership group has been working on proposals for a digital combinable crops passport to replace the current paper passport

Government-funded project aims to offer farmers route to diversification and business resilience

Paraffin oil product Olie-H can now be employed to help non-persistently transmitted potyviruses

More than 800 growers and agronomists log-on to manage production following wet weather

University of Warwick welcome steps to support fruit and vegetable growers

Experts say threat of mildew and septoria means crops will need 'helping hand'

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

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told tenant farmers last week that the scheme was a ‘victim of its own success' amid a rising demand for consumer and retailer assurance