Green revolution genes promise additional yield
Untangling the genetics that control and regulate the yield of a crop is a complicated,…
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Ray Of Hope For More Abundant Wheat Crops
Crops such as wheat could be up to 21% more efficient at turning the sun’s…
Maximising sugar beet’s potential
This season sees the launch of a competition to help sugar beet growers close the…
Wembley Continues To Head 2017 Oilseed Rape Rl Rankings
As more oilseed rape AHDB Recommended List trials results for this season come in, Wembley…
Security and consistency of yield key to profit
With over 41 winter wheat varieties on the AHDB Recommended List 2017- 2018, how will…
Funding secured for five year strategic programme at Rothamsted
Rothamsted Research has secured government funding to kick-start its new five-year strategic programme, Smart Crop Protection,…
Don’t overlook take-all risk in winter barley
Reports of take-all incidents in cereal crops have been high this year due to the…
UK used 1,541 million litres of biofuels between April 2016 and 2017
The UK Department for Transport has released its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) statistics for…
Soil health: What is it, and how can it be measured and improved?
Soils support and sustain our crops. They are, quite frankly, miraculous. But being complex, they…
‘Maxi cover crop’ project reports early findings
Details of an ambitious AHDB-funded programme of coordinated cover crop trials were announced earlier this year. Now the first…