2+ hour, 5+ min ago  (281+ words) Once again, the season begins with a conversation about the weather. To date, we have recorded just under 300mm of rainfall " almost one-third of our annual average. Including November and December, this brings the total to 570mm. Some fields are waterlogged, which…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (512+ words) By the time stress is visible in a wheat crop, it can be too late to intervene. Trials from a dry 2025 season show that the biostimulant Scyon offers a cost-effective way to prime wheat plants to cope with abiotic stress,…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (264+ words) The Scottish government has confirmed an additional "20,000 for greylag goose management in the Hebridean islands of Uist and Barra. This increases annual funding to "30,000, to address crop damage and protect machair habitats. The money is aimed at reducing the greylag…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (182+ words) The virus yellows forecast suggests moderate to high infection risk in 2026, particularly in eastern factory regions. See also: What an IPM approach to virus yellows in sugar beet could look like Therefore, the British Beet Research Organisation says growers and…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (697+ words) High yields are often associated with inflated input costs that erode profit and intensive systems which damage the environment, but emerging evidence tells a very different story. Insights from the UK's Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) which analysed data from more…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (339+ words) It is fair to say that a farmer is never happy with the weather. It's either too hot, too cold, too windy, too wet, too dry, and then there is the groundhog day of yet another wet harvest in Canterbury....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1770+ words) In the first Crop Watch of 2026, there is plenty of disease being found in crops with yellow rust in wheat, brown rust in hybrid barley as well as high levels of chocolate spot in some beans. Our agronomists consider what…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (366+ words) MPs have raised fresh concerns about gaps in inspections of imported meat and plant products entering the UK through the Port of Dover. New figures obtained by the cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee show that in…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (737+ words) High barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) pressure last autumn has led Hampshire farm manager Tim Walters to rethink his variety choices heading into the new season. This year he has ditched conventional two-rows and opted for BYDV resistant SY Kestrel…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (432+ words) Feeding cold milk to surplus lambs can result in daily liveweight gain and weaning weights comparable with those fed warm milk, according to new research. But care must be taken to ensure lambs reared this way are in deep-bedded pens…...