Staying legal and the opportunity to retainuse ofactivesfor longer are good reasons to reduce spray drift. Marianne Curtis reports.

The first Harvest Results for the RL winter oat trials are now available. Results are for three treated sites – Kent, Lincolnshire and Fife.

The first RL winter oilseed rape yield results – from nine trials: Hampshire, Wiltshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Midlothian – were published today.

The NFU has said the publication by the Environment Agency (EA) of a regulatory position statement (RPS) on spreading organic manures is a missed opportunity.

Catchy weather has interfered with harvest progress with the danger that when the weather improves, there will be many crops ready to harvest at the same time.

Storm damage has led to winter barley and oilseed rape being flattened in some areas including Somerset and parts of East Anglia.

The first AHDB Recommended List (RL) harvest results – from three winter barley trial sites in Dorset, Lincolnshire and the Scottish Borders have been published.

With winter barley harvest getting underway in the South, East and as far north as Yorkshire, early indications are of average yields but lower bushel weights and small grain size.

Recent cool, damp conditions are favouring maize eyespot with the first and most serious infection occurring in mid-July when the crop is at the 10-leaf stage.

Collecting information throughout the crop’s lifecycle can help to improve the contribution of digestate to nutrition.