MEPs call for tougher import checks to protect EU citrus trees
Draft EU measures to help prevent citrus fruit and tree pests being imported into the…
Browsing: Crops
Survey aims to evaluate potato soil pest issues
A nationwide potato growers’ survey is set to evaluate the wider implications of all key…
Australian researchers find resistance to neonicotinoids in aphid
Resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides has for the first time been confirmed in Australian populations of…
Sprouts gain natural disease defence
Brussels sprouts will remain safely in our Christmas dinners, thanks to University of Warwick research…
Intercropping can support greener farming, Hutton ecologists say
Planting peas and other legumes alongside cereal crops could help make farming greener, ecologists at…
Gleadell loads 25,000t milling wheat shipment to Algeria
The biggest shipment of grain to leave East Anglia so far this season departed Great…
New study shows wheat crop yield can be increased by up to 20 per cent using new chemical technology, providing a solution to global food insecurity
UK scientists have created a synthetic molecule that when applied to crops, has been shown…
AHDB reviews management options to control free-living nematodes
A review into both UK and overseas research suggests alternative ways to control free living…
Running field drains prompt OSR herbicides advice
As field drains start to run after recent rain, oilseed rape growers and spraying contractors…
Poor Scottish cereal harvest confirmed
Scotland’s 2016 cereal harvest is estimated to have fallen 11 per cent on 2015. Scottish…