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This year’s Soil Farmer of the Year competition has opened for entries.

Firefoxx, a high-yielding spring malting barley with early maturity, bred by Elsoms-Ackermann Barley, has received full approval for malt distilling use by the Malting Barley Committee (MBC).

It was quality over quantity at the launch of the AHDB Recommended Lists 2023/24, with 28 new varieties added overall and large yield increases seen, especially in barley and oilseed rape.

With fertiliser prices remaining high, Nottinghamshire farmer, Tom Hawthorne of Flawborough Farms shared how he is improving nutrient use efficiency across his farm and the 12 other farms he contracts.

New funding enables 8,000 free potato-growing kits to be made available for primary schools nationwide.

An open autumn and high grain prices driven by the war in Ukraine have seen the UK’s area of winter crops rise once more. 

Soil health has long been the focus for the Goodwin family. But it was the expansion of the livestock enterprise that was the ‘missing link’ in getting their arable land back to health.

A major review of the AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds Recommended Lists (RL) will begin at the end of November as part of AHDBs Delivering the Future of Farming update.

A major review of the AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds Recommended Lists (RL) will begin at the end of November as part of AHDB’s Delivering the Future of Farming update.