Other Crops News

Hutchinsons national seeds manager David Bouch gives his views on some of the spring cropping options available.

The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) announced the reveal of the 2026 Descriptive List for peas and beans, which is set to take place later this month. 

Aphids attacking lettuce fields in England are showing surprising regional patterns that could complicate efforts to protect one of the country’s most important salad crops, new research has revealed.

Following two challenging years for UK maize growers, where a lack of rainfall, particularly within maize-for-AD growing areas, has led to both reduced yields and lower output, growers should now be actively considering performance reliability, drought resilience and incorporating multiple-use varieties into future rotations, a Future Biogas expert advises. 

Trials of cultivating rice, other food crops, and bioenergy plants on rewetted peat soils in the Cambridgeshire Fens are part of a project which brings together scientists from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and local farmers.

Farms with a history of black-grass need to be aware of any unintended increase in populations that could have occurred within SFI options, says agronomy firm Hutchinsons. 

Pea bruchid has been found in a UK-grown commercial pea crop for the first time, the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has confirmed.

While most Brits are travelling to Spain for their summer holidays, some supermarket fruit and veg staples have travelled up to eight times farther — from as far away as Kenya.

Richard Heady says yields have been “thoroughly disappointing” this year, though crops were grown on a budget.

Tomato growers have been invited to attend this year’s British Tomato Conference, which will take place next month in Warwickshire. 

As harvest concludes at Tom Martin’s farm in Cambridgeshire, he notes that while they’ve seen fairly average yields, the order in which crops were harvested was highly unusual.

Defra is being urged to ensure the SFI supports farmers in the face of a changing climate, as it develops the next round.