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Pre-emergence herbicide application using 90% drift reducing nozzle technology can deliver significantly better Black-grass control, through improved soil surface coverage and timing. Final results of new trials at the Syngenta

The Harvest Results for this week (07 August 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials are from one site in Herefordshire and three northern sites in Scotland from the Borders, Fife and Angus.

  Concentrating on the hand tools needed for garage or workshop tasks, the new Sealey 2017 Hand Tool Promotion, available until 31st December 2017, features a variety of the company’s new

The latest winter barley trial results include sites from Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Cheshire and Morayshire.
The overall yield average from five trials in 2017 is 9.58 t/ha, contributing to a five-year average yield of 9.60 t/ha.

The four-year average gross output yields are a better measure of variety performance over several seasons, since this week’s oilseed rape results have information from just two trials from Oxfordshire and Suffolk.

The Harvest Results (24 July 2017) from AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials include sites from Teesside, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire and Hampshire.

Identifying the varieties best-suited to your local market and farm situation can be a major challenge. There is much to consider and market demand varies from region to region. With

Nufarm says it continues to invest in developing innovative formulations and one of its real successes is the product Kyleo – a special state of the art herbicide containing glyphosate

Autumn establishment is fundamental to a successful and healthy crop able to with stand the autumn stresses of disease and pest attack. At this stage the crop is very dependant

With the recent Limagrain TuYV survey showing infection levels up to 90% in some of the UK’s key OSR growing areas, yield losses from TuYV can be expected to be high

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced funding for the creation of a new Cambridge Centre for Crop Science (3CS), developed by the University of Cambridge in