Warmer temperatures are encouraging aphids to fly, and an increase in aphid numbers is now being widely reported and recorded across the British Beet Research Organisation’s (BBRO) yellow water pan network.
Get training from outside of your employer to reach your career goals, say farmers who proactively sought to improve their skills and career development. Jez Fredenburgh reports.
It appears stores held ‘significantly less grain than expected’ after the grain merchant’s collapse
June will be a key month for the British potato crop. Across the country, development is late, but warm weather could transform the crop which now has plenty of access to water.
Growers and businesses have formed the Association of Independent Oat Milk Producers in Scotland
A new study by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has found that a simple field-based monitoring system run by farmers, could help reduce the use ofÌýinsecticide sprayingÌýto tackleÌýBYDV.
A monitor fixed to a crop sprayer prevented the driver from seeing an oncoming cyclist, an inquest heard.
The Government was right to make provision for a temporary and limited derogation for the use of the neonicotinoid seed treatment Cruiser SB on sugar beet for the 2021 season, although the colder conditions of recent months mean it will not be required this year.