Seedbed moisture the first step to success with oilseed rape
21st August 2017
Timing of oilseed rape drilling should be determined by seedbed moisture ahead of any other factor.
Accurate placement of pre-em OSR herbicides is key
21st August 2017
Optimum establishment and rapid early growth are increasingly important to help oilseed rape crops outgrow cabbage stem flea beetle attacks as growers face a further season without neonicotinoid seed treatments.
Maximising sugar beet’s potential
21st August 2017
This season sees the launch of a competition to help sugar beet growers close the gap between the theoretical potential of crops and actual farm yields. The British Beet Research
Winter Barley 2017 Harvest Results – 8/8
8th August 2017
The Harvest Results for this week (07 August 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials are from one site in Herefordshire and three northern sites in Scotland from the Borders, Fife and Angus.
Winter Oilseed Rape 2017 Harvest Results – 8/8
8th August 2017
Winter Barley 2017 Harvest Results – 1/8
1st August 2017
The latest winter barley trial results include sites from Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Cheshire and Morayshire.
The overall yield average from five trials in 2017 is 9.58 t/ha, contributing to a five-year average yield of 9.60 t/ha.
Winter Oilseed Rape 2017 Harvest Results – 1/8
1st August 2017
The four-year average gross output yields are a better measure of variety performance over several seasons, since this week’s oilseed rape results have information from just two trials from Oxfordshire and Suffolk.
Winter Barley 2017 Harvest Results – 25/7
31st July 2017
The Harvest Results (24 July 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials include sites from Teesside, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire and Hampshire.
Oilseed rape to get potassium boost
24th July 2017
Autumn establishment is fundamental to a successful and healthy crop able to with stand the autumn stresses of disease and pest attack. At this stage the crop is very dependant
Online support for UK OSR growers
24th July 2017
With the recent Limagrain TuYV survey showing infection levels up to 90% in some of the UK’s key OSR growing areas, yield losses from TuYV can be expected to be high
Investment in innovative formulations
24th July 2017
Nufarm says it continues to invest in developing innovative formulations and one of its real successes is the product Kyleo – a special state of the art herbicide containing glyphosate
Sugar beet contract offers announced
14th July 2017
British Sugar and NFU Sugar have announced their agreement on sugar beet contract terms for 2018/19. This year the new beet contract will continue to offer both one year and three year contracts, each with market-linked bonus elements.
