Comprehensive online soil health guide launched
An online soil guide aiming to become the world’s most comprehensive resource to help farmers…
Browsing: Agronomy
Fertiliser programme key to award winning crop yields
Despite the exceptional autumn and winter water pressure this year, spring drought and lower than…
New barn owl study finds improved breeding performance
Barn owl breeding success last year (2019) was four percent higher, at 2.66 fledglings per…
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…