Arable News

One of Britain’s biggest flour millers is to offer buy-back contracts for the new Group 2 milling wheat, KWS Extase.

Our first ever supplement, a 28 page special supplement focussed on disease, weed and pest control.

Farmers at AHDB’s Taunton Monitor Farm meeting this month were reminded to use fungicides and varieties wisely, to protect crop health and yields.

Potato and vegetable growers are providing a hugely valuable habitat resource for some increasing populations of solitary bees in the UK, with a novel Green Headland Mix planted around fields of growing crop.

Expanding malting and poultry feed markets – not to mention demand from breakfast cereal, baked goods and fish and pet food manufacturers – are creating growing opportunities for naked oat production across the country, according to added-value crop specialists, GB Seeds.

Over the last three years, higher than expected levels of erucic acid have been found in oilseed rape seed which has been grown from double-low varieties.

Cereals is back but like you’ve never seen it before!

Seed breeding company, Limagrain UK, has published its latest guidelines on crops for game and wildlife management.

The BBRO has announced preliminary results from 2018 trials work to study the impact of virus yellows on 10 commercial sugar beet varieties.  This trial was sown on 12th May 2018

Following on from last month’s article in Farmers Guide on growing beet without neonicotinoid seed treatments, Dominic Kilburn attended the BBRO #BeetTech19 conference, Newmarket in Suffolk, where the potential threat of virus yellows was made very clear.

For UK potato growers, the news that diquat has had its approval withdrawn by the EU Commission, will have come as a major blow that could see herbicide and mechanical defoliation costs soar.

Resistance and unpredictable weather strengthens case for early herbicide applications, growers are advised.