13 February 2018 App for mobile phones and tablets launched by Life Scientific provides latest product information and news. The app which has just been launched by the premium off-patent crop protection company, allows…
12 February 2018 Membership of the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) doubled in 2017, as more than 200 farmers explored ways to push wheat and oilseed rape yields higher. Many farms have seen wheat and oilseed rape yields hit something of a plateau in…
12 February 2018 New era for disease control as SDHI fungicide gains British acceptance on malting barley for brewing and distilling British growers of malting barley for brewing and distilling will be able to use the…
12 February 2018 Another blow to fungal infection For the first time, researchers have isolated a natural resistance gene to Septoria, Europe’s most…
12 February 2018 Education and training at the forefront of Cereals 2018 The nature of farming is changing. Farmers are under increasing pressure to produce more with…
9 February 2018 Take-all tackled by AHDB-funded studentship Much more is now known about the fungus behind the soil-borne disease ‘take-all’, including fungal…
9 February 2018 Forward OSR crops will need careful management Oilseed rape crops across the UK are generally leafier than usual and many will require…
8 February 2018 Committee chair calls for govt to reverse brexit chemical plans The chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has called on the government…
8 February 2018 Macron backtracks on glyphosate President Emmanuel Macron said that France will exempt farmers from a glyphosate ban if there…
8 February 2018 First report in decades of a forgotten crop pathogen Scientists, breeders, farmers and conservation groups must continue to work in close collaboration to prepare…