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The post-emergence herbicide bentazone is facing deregulation if growers do not start acting to reduce leaching into ground and surface water, BASF has warned.

While, in some cases fields may be beginning to dry off on top, wetter soil at depth means patience is needed before cultivating to avoid creating poor seedbeds for sugar beet.

A cross-industry taskforce is calling for UK oilseed rape growers to join an ambitious on-farm monitoring and trials programme in the war against cabbage stem flea beetle.

A top Dutch official has said agricultural trading relationships between the Netherlands and the UK are ‘too strong to be changed fundamentally’ after Brexit.

A top Dutch official has said agricultural trading relationships between the Netherlands and the UK are too strong to be changed fundamentally after Brexit.

One of the discernible outcomes of the coronavirus pandemic has been the emergence of a ‘levelling up’ debate.

There is currently much talk about the benefits of regenerative agriculture and a research project is now looking at how the approach could be adopted on large commercial beef farms. Katie Jones and Hannah Park report.

The setting of thresholds for medication usage and disease management will help milk producers to get the most out of their relationship with the farm vet, says Owen Atkinson of Cheshire-based Dairy Veterinary Consultancy.

How should agri-environment schemes work for arable farmers and for wildlife? That’s what researchers in the PARTRIDGE project are looking for 2,000 farmers to tell them in a new survey.

The setting of thresholds for medication usage and disease management will help milk producers to get the most out of their relationship with the farm vet, says Owen Atkinson of Cheshire-based Dairy Veterinary Consultancy.