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A report by Andersons, commissioned by the NFU, said soaring labour costs could threaten the viability of the horticulture industry in the UK

2021 seems to be the year of the consultation. By the time you read this, the urea consultation will have closed, and no doubt growers will have had communication from Red Tractor regarding the opening of its V5 standards consultation.

Winter seems to be progressing in the normal way, with December being suitably wet and the last field destined for winter wheat will now be planted with spring wheat.

Happy New Year. I hope you all had some form of rest and normality over the festive period. Like many of you, I was happy to see the back of 2020 while filled with excitement for what the new year has in store for us. Well at this moment in time I am slightly concerned that 2021 is just 2020 reappearing in disguise.

Grain and oilseed analysts were watching Brazil to see the impact of wet weather on soybean harvesting and corn plantings.

How farmers clear their fields of cover crops is being investigated by a final year Harper Adams University student.

The seed potato sector has been left disappointed by confirmation that there will be no relaxation of the EU ban on imports of seed potatoes from the UK.

ADM has announced a new supply chain initiative in which its UK origination business, ADM Agriculture, will become the sole supplier for ADM Milling’s Tilbury site from harvest 2021.

ADM has announced a new supply chain initiative in which its UK origination business, ADM Agriculture, will become the sole supplier for ADM Millings Tilbury site from harvest 2021.

February 2021 Arable Farming Issue