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The 2020 season saw a wet autumn and winter, followed by a dry spring and a dull summer. Despite this, YEN estimated autumn sown crop potential of 18 tonnes per hectare this year.

Cheap fungicide programmes produced top margins for the AHDB winners of ADAS’ 2020 Wheat Fungicide Margin Challenge.

Industry leaders have warned farmers will face ‘major financial hardship’ during the transition away from direct payments, with Defra planning to maintain the income foregone payment model for the foreseeable future.

A GCSE in natural history has been branded a ‘great opportunity’ to reconnect farming and children by the NFU. Ìý

High dormancy levels in freshly shed black-grass seeds have led to particularly prolonged germination this year.

Nineteen Nuffield Farming Scholars took to the virtual stage to share the findings of their weeks of global travel and research. Hannah Binns finds out more. Ìý

Ministers from the devolved nations have called for assurances that all EU funding for the countryside will be fully replaced, after it emerged Treasury proposals would see rural budgets slashed by more than £455m.

The UK’s internal market will not be distorted if Scottish farmers keep their direct payments after Brexit, Defra Secretary George Eustice has said.

Despite good oilseed rape establishment across much of the country this season, growers should be alert to the possibility of significant larval damage in the spring, as cabbage stem flea beetle pressures may not have fallen.

Finboot, a company producing blockchain applications for supply chains, takes a look at how the technology can help the farming industry feed a growing global population