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Stronger yields, improved disease resistance and a greater choice of specialist and quality traits…
While wheat markets have shown increases over the past number of weeks it is important to proceed with caution when deciding on grain…
Speaking at the New Generation Agriculture conference in Dunboyne Castle this week, Graeme Sait talked about the importance of humus in the soil.…
A new diagnostic test to identify an emerging pest threat in the UK is one of five new research projects awarded by AHDB…
This month will see the largest shipment of UK grain exported this season from Bristol Port. 64,000t of barley is destined from Saudi…
Continued wet weather prolonging this autumn’s planting season means UK growers intend to plant 170,000 hectares less wheat compared to the year before.…
Software may now enable British farmers and growers to unlock the full potential of their land by applying the exact nutrients it needs.…
British farmers have persevered in the face of adversity to complete 89% of the potato harvest during the wettest year since 2012. Due…
Winter planting of cereal crops remains at a standstill here in the UK and Ireland as wet weather dominated the week and sent…
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…
