Arable Farming

A project to detect potato diseases and defects before they hit supermarket shelves is being carried out by B-hive Innovations.

A new tool has been introduced to help growers reduce the risk of water pollution and the loss of pulse and potato post-emherbicide,bentazone.

WITH British Sugar’s Bury St Edmunds factory opening earlier than usual this year, the 2021/22 sugar beet campaign has kicked off in Suffolk.

The combination of a late harvest and lorry driver shortages could mean cereal seed delivery delays on-farm as late as mid-October, the seed industry is warning.

The high of a good growing season for sugar beet crops is now being curbed by concerns that the HGV driver shortage will leave factories backed up and growers having to deliver their own beet.

A UK funded study has identified several promising sources of virus yellows which could be used in commercial sugar beet crops via genome editing (GE).

Growers have until the end of November 2022 to use up all stocks of cyproconazole containing products.

Some long-awaited finer weather in the final week of August allowed harvest progress to ramp up, and as of September 7, 90 per cent of the UK’s winter wheat area had been harvested according to AHDB.

Yara has announced its first acquisition in the organic fertiliser segment, after adding Ecolan Oy, a Finnish producer of recycled fertilisers to its portfolio.

It would appear at the time of writing that British Summertime has called time early, with the past couple of weeks having much more of an autumn vibe.