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FAO: Wheat and poultry price indexes rose in May
The price of wheat and poultry rose in May this year (2022), despite a modest decline in world food commodity...
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High fertiliser costs create double need for top-level wheat disease management
High prices for fertiliser and grain are putting extra pressure on farmers not to let wheat yields slip through their...
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Research reveals ‘significant’ insights into genetic makeup of wheat
Rothamsted Research scientists have recently made a series of unexpected discoveries within the wheat genome which, it says, should lead...
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Government's 2021 wheat and barley production estimates released
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural affairs (DAERA) has released the first estimate of this year’s UK wheat and...
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Global wheat prices up 41% with consumption hitting ‘all-time high’
Global wheat prices are up 41% on last year due to "tightening export availabilities amid strong demand", the Food and...
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Government green lights first genome-edited wheat trial
Rothamsted Research has been granted permission to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited....
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Milk producers commit to home-grown wheat and barley for straw value
Increasing numbers of dairy farmers in Northern Ireland seem committed to growing their own acreages of wheat and barley. But...
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E10 rollout to boost UK wheat and sugar markets
Petrol pumps across the UK will now offer greener E10 petrol from today (September 1). The UK government says the...
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Rothamsted gets ‘green light’ for genome-edited wheat
Rothamsted Research has been granted permission to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited....
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Hit milling wheat bonuses by focusing on nutrition
Growers of high quality wheat are being urged to consider applying a range of crop nutrients at the critical flag...
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Performance data for new wheat fungicide released
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has released UK fungicide performance data for a newly authorised wheat product in...
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Foliar application boosts zinc content of wheat by 50% – UCO research
A team from the Department of Agronomy at the University of Córdoba (UCO) in Spain has demonstrated, through field tests...
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Farmers advised to use foliar N on spring wheat for maximum returns
Farmers growing spring wheat this year should consider applying foliar nitrogen to improve crop efficiencies and boost protein content in...
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Genome-edited wheat to reduce cancer risk from bread
Scientists at Rothamsted Research in the south of England have used genome editing to reduce a cancer-causing compound commonly found...
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Variety ‘watch list’ for wheat yellow rust released
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has issued a ‘yellow rust watch list’ to help flag UK winter wheat...
Agri-Business
Bumper UK barley crop will not make up for reduction in wheat production
This year saw a UK barley crop of over 8.4 million tonnes produced, but the bumper crop will not make...
Agri-Business
Dramatic UK wheat decline as barley production increases
UK wheat production for 2020 was estimated at 10.133 million tonnes in provisional figures released by the Department for Environment,...
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Root and yield-boosting seed treatment gains UK approval for spring wheat
UK spring wheat growers have a new seed treatment option for this season’s plantings, with news that the SDHI-based fungicide...
