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Winter planting of cereal crops remains at a standstill here in the UK and…
Two re-purposed shipping containers, fitted with a ‘Farmony’ – 55m² in size, can produce 55,000 heads of lettuce per year or 408 trays of…
Pesticide use on arable crops grown in Scotland declined in 2018, according to a new National Statistics report. A drop in the use of…
There wasn’t much of a shake on grain markets this week as LIFFE, MATIF and CBOT all stayed similar to last week. However,…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report for November last Friday, November…
AHDB is looking for the next batch of up-and-coming potato professionals to take part in the 2020 Next Generation programme. Heading into its…
One of the world’s largest crop science companies, ADAMA Ltd, has today announced it will take over French-Swiss crop protection company, SFP, for…
“When we stand on soil we’re standing on the rooftop to another world.” Dr. Christine Jones gave the attendance at the BioFarm 2019…
Axereal, the largest farmer-owned co-operative in France has acquired Cargill Malt on behalf of its subsidiary Boortmalt. This acquisition now makes Boortmalt “the…
As tillage farmers here at home struggle to plant, the same is true across the water in the UK and as the situation…
The establishment of the US Domestic Hemp Production Program was announced this week by the US secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue. Commenting on…
An innovative research project aims to demonstrate the benefits of using crop species mixtures as a sustainable crop production system. The Sustainability in…
Drilling of crop plots at the 2020 Cereals Event site in Cambridgeshire is nearing completion, with stands of oilseed rape and cereals emerged…
The fight against the importation of genetically-modified (GM) feed or food in Europe has been labelled as “scaremongering” and “a conspiracy theory” by…
AHDB’s light leaf spot (LLS) preliminary forecast shows that the disease risk to winter oilseed rape is relatively high across central Britain. The…
Tillage farmers here in Ireland aren’t the only ones struggling to plant this autumn. The problem is reflected across the continent and in…
African swine fever (ASF) was first declared in north east China in August 2018. At present, there is no treatment and no vaccine…
Pigs, politics, weather…grain prices go up and down all of the time and numerous factors play a role in the peaks and troughs.…
