Hollie Hunter has been awarded the Barrie Orme Shield for achieving excellence in the 2022 Basis Certificate in Crop Protection. Miss Hunter grew up on a…
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Protecting wheat crops by assessing disease risk is essential to avoid compromising yield potential or stoking problems later in the season. Although some may look to…
As the autumn drilling season is almost upon us, Barrie Hunt, the UK and Ireland technical manager for Gowan Crop Protection, is keen to highlight the…
The 260ha East Yorkshire farm and business, F.D. Bird & Sons, began using the Omnia digital farming platform in 2020, with assistance from Hutchinsons’ agronomist Ben…
According to LimaGrain UK, oilseed rape (OSR) growers do not have to rely on hybrid varieties of the crop to escape damage in the autumn. It…
As chemical controls for apple canker become more limited, Hutchinsons has been examining the effectiveness of some alternatives. The firm’s Canker Reduction in Apple Fruit Trees…
The agronomy firm Hutchinsons is reminding growers not to become complacent in the fight against blight, with the prevalence of a new aggressive strain. While another…
With Cereals just a month away, for this edition of Machinery Matters, we step out of the tractor cab to take a look at the multitude…
With just a month to go until Cereals, we attended the Crop Plot preview day and, alongside our sister publication Agronomist & Arable Farmer, interviewed the…
Growers looking to enter the pulse crop market are being encouraged to explore the latest breeding lines being developed by Limagrain UK. One of the key…