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Featuring varieties with high yields and strong disease packages, the 2021/22 AHDB Recommended Lists offer new options to growers in all regions. Alice Dyer takes a look at the latest additions.

With subsoil compaction difficult to quantify at field-scale, PhD student Joseph Martlew of Cranfield University has been working with NIAB TAG to investigate methods to quantify and alleviate it in arable soils.

The five new varieties added to the OSR RL are all hybrids, which now make up 80 per cent of varieties on the list.

Defra has confirmed farmers in England are set to lose 50 per cent of their direct payment by 2024.

This week, Defra published its agricultural transition plan (ATP), which sets out some of the major milestones for the sector over the next seven years. Abi Kay reports.

‘Test and trace’ has become a well coined phrase during 2020, but it is also a practice that can be applied to improve crop management.

The wheat price faces increasing pressure from the imminent, large Australian wheat crop.

Crop health faces huge challenges including climate change, biosecurity, pesticide availability, legislation and pesticide resistance.

As the weather turned wet in early October, the 2020 maize harvest could be described as a tale of two halves.

With many cover crops growing well this autumn thanks to good September moisture, management over winter will be important to ensure soils are in the best state for spring crops.