Arable News

After a difficult autumn, there is an understandable tendency to drill earlier next season to guarantee wheat area. But what impact could this have on weed control?

Farmers around the UK have taken to the fields during the recent warm and sunny weather, to progress harvest in both barley and oilseed rape, as well as making a start on winter wheat.

The new flagship New Holland CR11 combine, previewed at Agritechnica 2023, was present at the official harvest 2024 launch of the new design.

Potato crops have endured long periods of weather conditions highly conducive to blight this season. Reports of blight outbreaks submitted for testing with the Fight Against Blight campaign have now topped 135 incidences across the UK. 

British Sugar and NFU Sugar say they have concluded negotiations and agreed a deal for the 2025/26 sugar beet contract.

UK livestock farmers have been warned of the potential risk to their animals posed by two types of fungi in grain. 

With this year’s harvest underway, with the help of increasingly large and impressive machinery, we take a trip down memory lane, to the harvests of decades gone by.

Net zero and innovation are commonly-heard buzzwords, but for agriculture to have a bright future, ‘education’ must be added to the list.

As more and more combines are now out on fields, Farmers Guide asked farmers from around the UK for another harvest update.

TyreSafe, the UK tyre safety charity, has launched a campaign to emphasise the importance of thorough tyre maintenance for farmers during Farm Safety Week. 

Calcium is the fifth most abundant element in the earth’s crust and an essential nutrient for soil health and crop production, so why don’t more farmers focus on it?

Biostimulant seed treatments can help optimise crop establishment and build growing resilience into your cropping system from day one.