Oilseed rape: crop update
Oilseed rape crops across the UK are mixed this year. There are some big, forward…
Author John Swire
Workforce, the single biggest challenge for global horticulture
Addressing AHDB’s SmartHort conference, NFU Sector Board Chair and apple producer, Ali Capper, made it…
New products enable growers to protect £1bn crops
UK growers now have access to three new products, to target and control ‘Grey Mould…
Adama opens new global R&D centre
Adama Agricultural Solutions has opened a global research and development complex in the Israeli town…
New FIAS video gives top tips for on-farm security and storage of fertiliser
The Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme (FIAS), in collaboration with the Agricultural Industries Confederation (FIAS), National…
Bees buzz back in growers green headlands
Potato and vegetable growers are providing a hugely valuable habitat resource for some increasing populations…
Save the moth, stop the rust and enhance food security
Citizen science project ‘Barberry Rust Explorer’ takes multi-disciplinary approach to conservation The delicately patterned Barberry…
Pollen beetle threat
An exceptionally warm February has contributed to the earliest start to a pollen beetle migration…
IBERS Aberystwyth retains NIAB agronomy cup
A team of agriculture students from Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences…
Standing up for peas this spring
Between 50% and 75% of combining peas are now drilled, depending on where in the…