Sesame shows consistant yields as growers add up second year success
HGCA-Recommended winter oilseed rape Sesame is showing consistency in its yields as growers look into the barn to see the results of their second year of success with the variety, and the 5-year trials results see Sesame stay at the top. This has been another good year for us with our Sesame once again yielding […]
Has the UKs commercial wheat yield record been smashed?
Group 3 wheats are rarely promoted as potential record breakers, but a 14.3t/ha crop of Invicta, bred by Limagrain UK and harvested by David Hoyles of Monmouth House Farm, Lutton, is thought to have set a new yield record for a UK wheat. If accepted, it would surpass the 13.99t/ha set by Gordon Rennie of […]
Supplies of oilseed rape herbicides come under pressure
Reduced availability and increased demand for metazachlor-based products means that the quantity available to oilseed rape growers for pre-emergence application will be greatly reduced, according to the UKs leading farm inputs purchasing and crop marketing business. The UK oilseed rape acreage has increased considerably this year, but in the short-term the availability of metazachlor-based products […]
Top UK miller concerned that farmers overlooking oat contracts
One of the UKs largest oat millers has expressed concern that farmers are rushing to sow oilseed rape as a break crop, and overlooking oats. Moez Karsan, managing director of Bedfordshire-based European Oat Millers, says rape acreages, already at record levels, could expand further this year thanks to an early start to the harvest. World […]
Call for better organic stats
As the Government releases the latest UK statistics on organic food and farming a leading sector body has criticised the delay in sharing key market data which it says is stifling business planning. The outcry from Organic Farmers & Growers (OF&G) comes as Defra released the 2010 figures for organic farming – in August […]
Combining peas realise full potential this season in PGRO trials and commercial crops
With all the talk of oilseed rape and cereals it is easy to forget the risks of pushing such a tight rotation too far and to underestimate the tremendous benefits that growing a pulse crop brings to the following wheat crop. Combining peas show great promise this year and results so far show that peas […]
Early harvest could mean farmers miss lucrative oat contracts
An early harvest and high prices for other crops could lead farmers to overlook potentially lucrative oat contracts for next year. This is the warning from prominent arable farmer Robert Law, who says oats, as a traditionally late-sown crop, are in danger of being passed by, even though there are contracts on offer that match […]
Glyphosate – are your seed potatoes at risk?
Seed potato growers with crops bordering cereals or oilseed rape should beware the on-going risk of contamination resulting from drift from neighbouring crops, warns Potato Council seed and export executive Sophie Lock. Used as a harvest aid for cereal crops and oilseed rape, glyphosate can cause significant damage to seed until after defoliation takes place, […]
Gleadell Malting Barley report
In the UK, the winter barley harvest is well under way and, so far, the indication is for much higher Nitrogen than normal with reduced yields. The drought has really pushed Nitrogen levels up this year and even the later winter barleys on the more drought resistant soils are trending higher, explains Stuart Shand, Gleadell […]
