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Farming minister, Mark Spencer, used the NFU conference on Tuesday February 21, 2023 to reinforce the £168m in grants available to farmers in order to drive innovation, support food production, improve animal health and welfare and protect the environment.
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In the face of global turmoil, climate change, and rapidly rising world populations, the NFU is today warning that the clock is ticking for the government to match warm words with actions to ensure British farmers and growers can continue to play their part in feeding and fueling a changing and challenging world.
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Life Scientific are urging growers to protect their crops this spring and are offering cost-effective herbicides as options. Both new products are reverse-engineered, the concept of which being the ability to manufacture a product that is accepted as the same as that of the reference product by the regulatory authority.
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Limagrain UK have launched Stem Health which offers measurable and tangible levels of stem-based disease resistance, helping oilseed rape varieties maintain healthy stems for longer and enabling the crop to reach it full yield potential.
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Farmers keen to hear first-hand about the benefits of growing Miscanthus are invited to attend a farm walk in Daventry this March. Farmers Tom and Rachel Jeffries will showcase their Miscanthus crop at the Terravesta-hosted event, which will take place on 2 March.
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Total control failure in potato blight management product, mandipropamid (Revus) was confirmed in Europe in December (2022), meaning British growers must plan an anti-resistance strategy.
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Sencrop, the European agri-tech company specialising in weather monitoring and crop disease forecasting, is opening its first UK facility at NIAB's Barn4 AgriTech Incubator in Cambridge. Having previously worked with organisations like the British Beet Research Organisation,
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The February 2023 issue is now available online! News: Growers for seaweed trials sought Three bean varieties Life on Mars News Analysis: Defra announces major changes in support Opinion: Beware cyclical changes Agronomy Matters: Cost effective health crops Focus on herbicide application Crop Protection: Dawsum delivers in snapshot Sprayers and Sprayer Tech: High tech updates on sprayers
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