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Farmers who planted oilseed rape should be keeping an eye out for the flea…
AgriLand noted with interest that the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) of Northern Ireland is advertising two positions of Science Leaders in plant…
British hop growers have been left with serious questions about the viability of their businesses after the government rejected industry calls for support…
Autumn is an ideal time for soil sampling. Soils are warm and the results will come back to allow for planning during the…
Grain markets were in the green this week. Prices have been increasing over the past few weeks and on Thursday evening (September 10)…
Co. Derry farmer Robert Moore has said “it’s been a bloody awful harvest weather wise” as farmers are struggling to get the harvest…
The harvest is a struggle but, on a positive note, grain prices moved in an upward direction this week. On Thursday evening (August…
As Scotland’s harvest stutters forward, NFU Scotland’s annual harvest survey has been launched. The broken weather has seen harvest stopping and starting. Heavy…
US corn price has increased this week – moving from 324.50c/bu last Thursday (August 20) to 331.75c/bu last night (August 24). The price…
New one-year and three-year sugar beet contracts from 2021 will include a “ground-breaking” new Virus Yellows assurance fund and an innovative futures-linked contract…
2020 was a relatively low-pressure disease year for cereal crops, although rain in June did bring a late surge to disease levels in…
Jeremy Clarkson is new to farming. The TV host most famously known for a stint on a certain ‘top’ motor show is also…
Heavy rain hit the UK this week and flooded fields amidst what is a difficult harvest – similar to Ireland. Posts to social…
A ‘grower’s ballot’ of almost 2,000 horticulture and potato levy-payers shows the majority of growers view the Agricultural & Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) as…
100mph winds have devastated some corn crops and farmland in the US. Corn crops were flattened and grain bins destroyed when a storm…
A new ‘smart tool’ aims to help growers mitigate the potential for key active ingredients and their residues to leach. BASF’s wHen2g0 smart…
The latest Kantar figures confirm that Northern Ireland’s potato packing sector sales have grown by 3.9% over the past year. All the sector’s…
A new online tool hopes to help operators set up slug pellet applicators to apply pellets with precision, minimising cost and potential environmental…
