Arable News

A well-maintained sprayer and its correct setup are essential for accurate application and optimal efficacy while avoiding any risks to the operator, bystanders, and the environment, a Hutchinsons expert advises.  

The crop is a valuable feed and ideal break crop for winter and spring cereals.

Monmouthshire contractor MRI Whistance has shared why he chose a Kverneland f-drill front tank with a Rotago F power harrow drill combination in search of improved flexibility and more output. 

Following an overall smaller cereal harvest in 2024, the UK has a greater reliance on imported grain in the 2024/25 marketing year, according to the latest research by AHDB. 

Cereals Event 2025 is returning to a popular Lincolnshire location, showcasing 400 exhibitors and more than 200 live demonstrations, two days of seminar programmes and several hundred individual crop plots on display.

Crop protection company Adama said that this season farmers can make disease control easier with its broad-spectrum fungicide, Maxentis.  

Tyre specialist Ascenso has answered some lingering questions that worry farmers this time of the year.

Designed and built for British farmers, Team Sprayers has manufactured trailed and mounted sprayers for the agri market for over 40 years.

Growers can enjoy yield increases and efficacy improvements on crops whilst reducing fungicide inputs, with interventions of natural biostimulant products from AminoA, the company says.

Amazone explains how its range of drills can offer significant flexibility, from just a single drill.

The BBRO’s conference in early February discussed a ‘to do’ list for the 2025 crop, and offered insights into the challenges ahead. Rachel Hicks reports.

The release of data from the 2024 sugar beet harvest by the British Beet Research Organisation has been welcomed by breeders SesVanderHave UK.