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With wheat prices drifting lower in recent weeks, Cedric Porter takes a look at the prospects in the grain markets.

This morning, Defra released the final estimates for 2022 UK cereal and oilseed production.

CortevaÌýhas signed an agreement to acquire Houston-based Stoller, one of the largest independent biologicals company in the industry.

Looking to improve his dairy herd’s yield and production efficiencies, Nigel Harper has been able to boost milk production from home-grown forage, with maize silage now accounting for a larger proportion of the herd’s total mixed ration diet.

The integration of cover crops has been the key ingredient for one farmer in his move to improving the health and resilience of his heavy clay soils.

Prospects for a scalable, high-integrity market for farm?soil?carbon?have taken a step forward with the publication of minimum requirements for?soil?carbon?codes.

Cereal growers should factor in high fertiliser costs when deciding the cut-off between swapping winter wheat planting for spring barley.

COMPANIES producing biopesticides, derived from natural materials such as plants and bacteria, have warned the post-Brexit operating environment is posing ‘commercial challenges’.

This year’s Soil Farmer of the Year competition has opened for entries.

Firefoxx, a high-yielding spring malting barley with early maturity, bred by Elsoms-Ackermann Barley, has received full approval for malt distilling use by the Malting Barley Committee (MBC).