Arable Farming

Grazing winter cereals can provide high quality winter forage for sheep, without impacting grain yields, trials have found. Alice Dyer reports.

Growers are urged to consider a split dose post-emergence herbicide approach in maize crops this year to ensure early germinating weeds do not impact final yields

With the late sowing of most spring bean crops, ensuring plants remain clean and healthy for as long as possible will be crucial to fully benefit from the good establishment this season

NFU Mutual said farmers who had tried to use machinery to cut a fire break in last year's summer had seen their machinery engulfed by flames and had to 'run for their lives'

With more than a quarter of the 400 exhibitors at Cereals new for 2023, visitors will have the opportunity to explore trade stands, two stages, crop demonstrations and much more. Alice Dyer and Ash Burbidge report.

The high value equipment had been stolen from tractors in Cheshire

A key take home message at the Rootstock conference in Exeter was to change the way growers think about soils

Simon Nelson advises farmers on a wide range of arable and forage crops across Cumbria, north Lancashire and into south west Scotland. He has worked for Agrovista for 23 years.

New research has uncovered how late applications of foliar nitrogen can boost milling wheat protein.

Sencrop is expecting that new research and collaboration opportunities will benefit British farmers as it opens its first UK office at NIAB’s Barn4 AgriTech Incubator in Cambridge.