Arable
SRCU trials event to focus on growing for the market and boosting margins
Ensuring that Scottish cereals remain “the supply of choice” for the whisky and gin markets will be among the topics...
Wheat
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'Low resistance risk fungicide programmes must become the norm'
Low resistance risk fungicide programmes must be adopted universally to prolong the efficacy of cereal chemistry in the UK, delegates...
Arable
Video: 'Killer' machine to tackle herbicide resistant weeds
A weed-killing machine that pulverises weed seeds upon harvest could be a huge step in reducing the amount of chemicals...
Arable
Best-practice cereal management tips - for the month of May
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland has issued best-practice cereal management tips – for the...
Arable
Soil health to be the key focus of 2017 'Cereals' event
Last year’s UK-based ‘Cereals’ event, for tillage farmers, featured an 8m long x 1.5m deep soil pit, demonstrating the impact...
Arable
Global wheat production expected to fall in 2017
Global wheat production is expected to fall in 2017, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United...
Arable
Field trials for GM wheat plants get green light in the UK
Rothamsted Research is to undertake field trials in the UK, which will assess the ability of GM wheat cultivars to...
Rural Life
Video: Great footage of over 2,000ac of wheat being harvested in the US
This great footage from the US shows the wheat harvest, on over 2,000ac, on one family farm in Osborne County, Kansas....
Arable
Record global wheat production forecast for harvest 2016 - FAO
Record global wheat production forecast for this year’s harvest are helping keep inventories ample and prices low, according to the...
Other
Highest UK wheat stocks on record
UK wheat stocks at the end of 2015/16 increased by 34% year-on-year to the highest on records going back to...
Arable
Wheat production to again outstrip use as dairy prices set to remain weak
Global food commodity markets are on a stable path for the year ahead,according to the UN Food & Agricultural Organisation...
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U.S. wheat stocks set to be largest in 29 years
U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2015/16 are projected to be 10 million bushels higher than last year, making it the...
Arable
Winter barley production increases on 2014 levels - CSO
Winter barley production in Ireland continues to grow, with the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showing that...
Arable
The volumes of surplus wheat in the UK is up 38%
The surplus of wheat in the UK available for either export or for free stock is up 38% on last...
Arable
Grain markets nervous after Egypt rejects another wheat cargo
Egyptian quarantine authorities last week rejected another cargo of wheat for containing traces of ergot, it emerged this week. According...
World News
Video: A 14,000ac model farm...the biggest in the world?
This 14,000ac model farm is believed to be the largest of its kind in North America, possibly the world. It was...
Rural Life
Video: Great footage of the wheat harvest in Norway last year
https://youtu.be/ibYDrcYAyQ8 This great drone footage from Norway shows the 2015 wheat harvest in the south of the country. It was...
Arable
UK set to record fourth biggest wheat harvest on record
Defra’s final crop production and yield figures have revealed a boost in UK wheat production, compared with estimates made in...
