Hands-on experience has inspired secondary schools to promote farming as a rewarding career to their pupils. Caroline Stocks finds out more about how a slow and steady approach is paying dividends.
Moderate to high spend fungicide programmes delivered the highest margins in the 2021 AHDB wheat fungicide margin challenge. Teresa Rush reports.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has urged the Government not to give Indian sugar access to the UK market, following a row over the country’s illegal subsidies to the sector.
The winding up of AHDB Potatoes following the vote against the continuation of the levy last March, has led to several proposals for new representative bodies in the potato sector to fill the funding gap.
Multi-species leys and alternative forage crops are becoming an increasingly important element of maximising production and reducing costs for one KPI-driven livestock producer.
An AHDB PhD student is exploring how root exudates help some cereals to compete with black-grass.
An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration.
For the second year, Defra has approved the emergency authorisation (EA) of the neonicotinoid seed treatment, Cruiser SB (thiamethoxam), following an application from British Sugar and NFU Sugar.
The situation on the Ukrainian border was creating uncertainty about two of the world’s major wheat exporters