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Tariffs, changing climate and the rise of China and India as major players is changing the global potato market, which impacts the UK as one of the world’s largest importers

Improving soil health has been identified as a crucial step in ensuring the long-term sustainability of crop production, while also positively impacting immediate profitability

2024 and 2025 have delivered challenging years for arable growers. Hope is on the horizon for 2026, provided yields can stabilise

Join Ash Ellwood as she chats with three experts all things grass-weeds

With maincrop potato lifting well underway, we catch up with two agronomists to see how crops have fared after the hottest summer on record

Trials show that delaying OSR drilling into late September can bring establishment and yield benefits

Dame Angela Eagle visited Marion Regan’s soft fruit farm in Kent this week

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.

Visitors to The Agroforestry Show were met with inspiring experiences and knowledge transfer opportunities within the two-day event in Hertfordshire