Author Posts: Sarah Kidby

Maize Growers Association agronomist, Jon Myhill, reviews the options available for maize growers hoping to achieve the best weed control in this year’s crop.

As crop production specialists, Hutchinsons has been addressing the issue of farm profitability and resilience amid rising input costs, at a farm-scale level through its Helix Farm network.

LG Typhoon is a high yielding Group 4 hard wheat from breeders Limagrain UK, that joined the AHDB Recommended List in 2022–2023 and will be available to UK growers this autumn.

Minister for Brexit opportunities Jacob Rees-Mogg has confirmed no further import controls on EU goods will be introduced this year.

Bird keepers are being urged to maintain scrupulous biosecurity standards as the risk of avian influenza remains, chief vets say.

First-time exhibitor Kramp will make its LAMMA show debut in style, welcoming ‘Fast and Farmer-ish’ host and influencer Tom Pemberton and giving visitors the chance to win a £3,000 workshop makeover or a £1,000 webshop spending spree.

Be flexible and tailor pre- and post-emergence sprays to specific weed burdens on fields, advises independent agronomist Richard Cromie.

Family-owned agricultural, estate and turf maintenance equipment supplier, Fentons of Bourne Ltd, hosted the celebration at its head office in Kate’s Bridge near Bourne in Lincolnshire.

The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group is continuing to offer its Nematodirus Forecast free of charge, providing a vital service for sheep farmers, vets and advisers to protect the health of lambs born this spring.

In what has been described as a “game changer” for the Royal Highland Show, organisers have secured £200,000 of funding from the Scottish Government to livestream the event worldwide for its 200th anniversary year.

British free range and organic egg farmers are considering a mass exodus from the industry after major supermarkets refused to help them cover spiralling feed and energy costs, reports the British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA).

This is the premise of the Helix Agroecology Farm hosted by Harry Heath of Whitley Manor Farm, Newport, Shropshire.