Membership of the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) doubled in 2017, as more than 200 farmers explored ways to push wheat and oilseed rape yields higher.
Many farms have seen wheat and oilseed rape yields hit something of a plateau in…
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New era for disease control as SDHI fungicide gains British acceptance on malting barley for brewing and distilling
British growers of malting barley for brewing and distilling will be able to use the…
Another blow to fungal infection
For the first time, researchers have isolated a natural resistance gene to Septoria, Europe’s most…
Education and training at the forefront of Cereals 2018
The nature of farming is changing. Farmers are under increasing pressure to produce more with…
Take-all tackled by AHDB-funded studentship
Much more is now known about the fungus behind the soil-borne disease ‘take-all’, including fungal…
Forward OSR crops will need careful management
Oilseed rape crops across the UK are generally leafier than usual and many will require…
Committee chair calls for govt to reverse brexit chemical plans
The chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has called on the government…
Macron backtracks on glyphosate
President Emmanuel Macron said that France will exempt farmers from a glyphosate ban if there…
First report in decades of a forgotten crop pathogen
Scientists, breeders, farmers and conservation groups must continue to work in close collaboration to prepare…
Sweet route to greater yields
A promising technique that makes maize more productive even in droughts has now been unpicked…