Oilseed rape crops have, for the most part, come out of the winter remarkably clean of disease after the early intense Phoma pressure was well controlled, reports Syngenta OSDR Manager, Kat Allen (pictured). Wet and mild weather over the early autumn was positive for crop establishment, but did raise the […]

Farmer-to-farmer learning is now at the heart of AHDB’s knowledge exchange work, with 46 farms across the country fully engaged in AHDB Farm Excellence activities. A compilation of short and in-depth profiles of the current AHDB Monitor and Strategic Farms, which span livestock, arable and horticulture enterprises, have been compiled […]

Chafer has made a number of upgrades to its range of trailed sprayers to ensure they remain at the forefront of crop sprayer technology for 2018. Deliveries of these updated versions of the Sentry and Guardian trailed sprayers will begin in the spring. A new boom suspension assembly offers improved […]

Low resistance risk fungicide programmes must be adopted universally to prolong the efficacy of cereal chemistry, delegates heard at the 2017 AHDB Agronomists’ Conference. The message came following the annual update to AHDB’s fungicide performance data, which showed a continued slide in fungicide efficacy in several key UK cereal pathogens. […]

LAMMA 2018 will play host to Trelleborg’s new innovations aimed at helping farmers to produce more, with less. Bruce Lauder, Senior Sales and Marketing Manager, explains: “LAMMA is a great platform for Trelleborg to showcase our new technology and services. We have a real passion for agriculture and aim to […]