New barn owl study finds improved breeding performance
Barn owl breeding success last year (2019) was four percent higher, at 2.66 fledglings per…
Browsing: Agronomy
Adopt good stewardship principles when tackling blackgrass in oilseed rape
Oilseed rape growers are being encouraged to follow water stewardship best practice as the key…
Bringing down the risk of crop failure
Farmers are discovering how to bring down the risks of crop failure by using IoT…
More mechanical weed control options from Opico
Opico has widened its mechanical weed control line-up to include a new range of inter-…
Beware of rodents attacking precious straw stocks
Rodents are out in force again this year and with nationwide straw shortages, farmers are…
Where is the IPM potential for virus-vectoring aphid pests?
Addressing the increasing virus problem faced by seed potato growers may call for a re-think…
The Controlled Traffic Farming Team at Harper Adams University successfully tilled and drilled their long-term experimental site in late October 2020.
The Traffic & Tillage Project is a long-term plot experiment (36 plots of 80m x…
Wheat pan-genome research to advance global wheat development
In a landmark discovery for global wheat production an international consortium of crop researchers, including…
Consider early fungicide to keep a lid on barley disease
Disease pressure in many crops of winter barley is very high this autumn, so growers…
ADAS and AHDB Wheat Fungicide Margin Competition 2020
Cheap fungicide programmes produced top margins for the AHDB winners of ADAS’ Wheat Fungicide Margin…