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Chris joined Agrovista’s technical team in autumn 2019, providing field trials expertise, as well as technical insight into cereal crop management and agronomic customer support.

After septoria came through the winter well, dry weather in March and the start of April checked it with very little infection recorded on leaves 5 and 4.

Farmers must take a different approach to waste and the ‘cycle of life’ if they are to meet the challenges posed by global economic forces, Defra secretary George Eustice has insisted.

Farmers in the UK are moving to grow oilseed rape again to capitalise on rising oil prices, as retailers look to stem shortages caused by the war in Ukraine.

Minette Batters told NFU Council failure to implement a strategy to underpin food security would suggest the Government was focused on putting farmers out of business

The Rothamsted Insect Survey has recorded the first peach–potato aphid (Myzus persicae) catches of 2022.

A new service is to be established to offer advice and urgent practical support to Ukrainian seasonal horticultural workers in Scotland.

British retailers are being urged to help create a market for home-grown protein crops to help reduce livestock farmers’ reliance on harmful soya imports.

Ministers are being urged to put an end to the export of pesticides banned in the UK.

A group of six soil-centric farmers have formed a business that gives others in the industry more control over external investment in their carbon and biodiversity.