Co. Down agronomist, Richard Owens, has confirmed a significant increase in the cereal acreage grown in Northern Ireland this year....
May 20, 2022
It has been estimated that up to 25 million tonnes of maize remains in Ukrainian feed stores. This is crop...
May 17, 2022
UK ‘agflation’ has been soaring since the beginning of the year and shows no sign of flattening off, according to...
A Co. Down cereal grower has confirmed that Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) has caused problems within his 2021/22 winter...
April 29, 2022
A new project, involving a number of UK research centres, is to work towards the development of high-fibre white bread....
April 26, 2022
Global cereal production, utilitsation and trade are reaching record levels in 2021/2022, according to the recently published Cereal Supply and...
February 8, 2022
Rothamsted Research scientists have welcomed changes that will make gene editing (GE) research much easier from now on. The new...
January 21, 2022
Many UK tillage growers now practice what they call a ‘five-minute fallow policy’ as they strive to improve the sustainability...
December 30, 2021
Rothamsted Research scientists have recently made a series of unexpected discoveries within the wheat genome which, it says, should lead...
November 1, 2021
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural affairs (DAERA) has released the first estimate of this year’s UK wheat and...
October 12, 2021
Rothamsted Research has been granted permission to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited....
September 30, 2021
The current spell of warm weather will be welcomed by almost every farmer, but if it were to continue for...
September 10, 2021
August 31, 2021
Growers of high quality wheat are being urged to consider applying a range of crop nutrients at the critical flag...
June 2, 2021
Take-all is the most damaging root disease of wheat worldwide, with losses estimated at between 5-20% annually in the UK...
April 29, 2021
A team from the Department of Agronomy at the University of Córdoba (UCO) in Spain has demonstrated, through field tests...
April 7, 2021
Chemical fertilisers reduce the number of nutrient solubilising bacteria associated with the roots of wheat, according to new research. A...
March 22, 2021
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has published its latest Cereal Supply and Demand Estimates report. The estimates are based...
February 24, 2021
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