Arable News

With many winter cereals looking to have established well last autumn, Hutchinsons technical support manager, Neil Watson, explains how to support and build on this promising start heading into spring. 

With profitable break crops in short supply and rotations under pressure, maize for anaerobic digestion (AD) is offering arable farmers something increasingly rare: long-term contracts, competitive margins, and digestate return. 

Yara UK & Ireland has launched YaraPlus, a digital platform designed to give farmers and agronomists everything they need to make informed crop nutrition decisions in one, easy-to-use app.  

Choosing the right maize variety for the farm location and the crop end use is key to maximising harvest results, according to Andrew Cook of seed breeder KWS. He highlights a couple of promising modern hybrids suitable for livestock forage or biogas.

The Smart Technology Experimental Plant Suite (STEPS) at the University of Essex positions the UK at the forefront of global crop resilience research. 

De Sangosse will be inviting growers, agronomists and sprayer operators to take a closer look at smarter, more resilient crop input strategies when it exhibits at CropTec this January.

The countdown is on for CropTec, taking place at the NEC, Birmingham on 14-15th January alongside LAMMA and the Low Carbon Agriculture show.

RAGT and Syngenta announced today that RAGT has completed the acquisition of Syngenta’s malting barley seeds business.

RAGT and Syngenta have reached an agreement for RAGT to acquire Syngenta’s two-row spring and winter malting barley seeds business.

Agriweld is going to kick off the new year with a sharp focus on advanced cultivation at LAMMA 2026 – which it says is an ideal platform to unveil its latest innovation.

CC Agri will be hosting a sugar beet demonstration day on Thursday 8th January 2026.

DSV UK has taken a strong position on the AHDB 2026/27 Recommended List with the new provisional Group 1 wheat Arlington joining the line-up and hybrid oilseed rape Dompteur as the highest-yielding OSR variety on the list.