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British Sugar and NFU Sugar have announced negotiations have concluded, and a deal has been agreed upon for the 2024/25 sugar beet contract. It comes following months of talks between the two bodies to secure a deal for the 2,300 growers supplying beet to factories across the UK, which both parties agreed “has not served the industry well.” They will offer growers a …
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NFU Scotland is consulting members on the potential introduction of a digital grain passport (DPG) to accompany grain movements, similar to that already in place for combinable crops. The original DPG proposal was met with concerns from NFUS over value for money, complexity and increased future costs, despite the Union’s Combinable Crops committee seeing potential in the concept. Vice president …
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UPL is giving 20 potato growers enough of their new potato sprout suppressant, Argos (orange oil), to treat 200 tonnes of potatoes in-store. Growers can enter by applying on the UPL website by the 31st of January. Storage experts, application contractors and growers have been piecing together the best storage control programme since the revocation of CIPC (chlorpropham). The sprout …
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Following a challenging season in all seed growing areas in 2023, potato producers are urged to treat disease-susceptible stocks with a fungicide during the first grading window after the tricky harvest hindered earlier applications. With producers keen to get crops dried and cured, few applied an early fungicide seed treatment to suppress storage diseases like dry rot, gangrene, skin spot …
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The December 2023 issue is now available online NEWS Red Tractor governance review New Defra Secretary unveils funding opportunities MARKET REPORT Confidence in Black Sea supplies NEWS ANALYSIS We need practical policy from COP28 Fertiliser ‘closed-loop’ initiative COMMENT Time to evaluate your farm’s true potential Why the AHDB has ‘turned a corner’ and levy players are now in charge after …
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Mark Allen Agriculture Ltd, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, SM2 5AS, United Kingdom
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