Arable News

Tickets are now on sale for the Cereals Event 2026, which will be hosted on Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm.

Corteva Agriscience announced that Ed Barnatt has been appointed the new UK & Ireland country leader.

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.

Extreme weather conditions have made the 2025 harvest especially challenging for many growers, with AHDB reporting considerable variability as the key finding.

The Beet Wellington from Richard Western is a heavy duty, high-performance trailer with extra strength in the chassis, body and running gear to cope with heavy-duty workloads.

Farmers will be able to use the independent data on biofungicide performance in crop protection programmes, thanks to a series of AHDB-funded pilot trials.

With grain prices under pressure and input costs climbing, more UK farmers are turning to strategic selling to manage risk and secure margins. According to Hectare Trading, there is growing interest among farmers in selling their crop forward over the harvest period.

The British Beet Research Organisation has shared advice to help sugar beet growers maximise yields and sugar content when harvesting in warm conditions.

From 1st January 2026, the rules for purchasing and using professional rodenticides on farms are changing. In just a few months, holding membership of a CRRU-approved farm assurance scheme will no longer be sufficient to access the products needed to control rodent infestations. It is time for farmers to get ready.

Could you save up to 35% of your drier operational running costs per season? Perry of Oakley explains more.

Even with drilling and pre-ems completed on many farms, there are still opportunities to improve weed control according to Bayer technical manager, Emma Jones.

Despite the driest spring in over a century, Group 3 winter wheat Bamford has once again reinforced its reputation as one of the most reliable performers on the Recommended List (RL).