Technical

Good establishment of oilseed rape is essential to growing a successful crop with a decent yield. Neil Groom, general manager for Grainseed gives his top tips for getting OSR off to a strong start. 

With cover crop drilling set to closely follow the combines, Alice Dyer explores what the perfect species mix might look like.

Growers, farmers, processors and the public are asked to remain vigilant after APHA confirmed findings of Colorado potato beetle larvae in Kent.

Companion cropping oilseed rape can not only help overcome establishment challenges, but also substantially reduce the amount of herbicides leached into water courses, trials have found.

A pea and bean intercrop may seem like an unusual choice, but it could be a viable option as a feed crop with added agronomic benefits.

Visitors to this year’s Groundswell event were given lessons in the practical application of agroecology to make their farming systems more sustainable and resilient.

With black-grass particularly bad in some fields this season following last autumn’s early cereal drilling, Farmers Guardian gets a five-point plan for getting on top of the weed.

A new AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm host has been announced for the East, after Brian and Patrick Barker’s six-year tenure as hosts comes to an end.

Every five years, AHDB undertakes a thorough review of how the Recommended Lists are serving growers. Alice Dyer finds out what changes are likely to be made off the back off the latest review.

The final part of our grassland guide looks to break down the basics of a key regenerative grazing strategy and understand how it can be implemented within a livestock grazing system