Innovative New OSR Scheme to Reduce Erucic Acid Contamination Concerns
An innovative scheme launched at Cereals 2017 promises to markedly reduce OSR growers’ erucic acid…
Browsing: Crops
Smart water management: saves money and time
The unseasonably dry weather this spring has forced many farmers to irrigate large proportions of…
Dow Shield: apply now to control key competitive high biomass weeds in forage maize
When Dow Shield (clopyralid) was first registered in the UK in 1976, over 40 years…
Busting myths on disease pressure
With T2 sprays complete for many, and only late drilled crops left to go, what…
OSR champion varieties for growers in the west
Major steps forward in breeding technology for OSR in recent years have resulted in genetic…
It’s Not Too Late to Boost Protein Levels in Your Milling Wheat
Recent weather is, once again, giving some farmers cause for concern. The good weather that…
Pest and disease warning from PGRO
The PGRO has come up with some timely warnings about possible imminent threats to growers…
A cautionary tale of broad leaved weed resistance
Most UK cereal growers with blackgrass know only too well that herbicide resistance in this…
Lettuce growers get Luna Sensation
CRD has issued an EAMU for the use of Bayer fungicide Luna Sensation (fluopyram +…
Benchmarking and ‘big data’ could be increasingly important for arable margins
Benchmarking of crop performance plus use of big data to identify farming practices that deliver…