Variety choice is playing an increasingly important role in helping growers get the best from sugar beet crops, say experts. With the 2026 beet crop now in the ground, attention is turning to weed beet management, disease pressure and crop resilience, says Martin Brown, sugar beet product manager for... Read more

A robust, multi-active T2 fungicide programme could be essential to protect wheat yield potential this season. Growers should combine single-site and multi-site chemistries for immediate and lasting disease control, suggests Adama UK technical manager David Griffiths. Doing so will protect the flag leaf and leaf two – and encourage... Read more

Wheat breeders are deploying new genetic techniques to tackle rising pressure from yellow rust, as resistance in widely grown varieties begins to fail. An estimated 40% of the UK wheat area is now planted with varieties highly susceptible to the disease. The shift follows the breakdown of the Yr15... Read more

Farmers across England and Wales are being invited to enter a new award recognising practical action to improve water quality on farm. The Water Quality Farmer of the Year Award has been launched by Innovation for Agriculture, with support from Portsmouth Water, Wessex Water, Southern Water, Severn Trent Water... Read more

Limagrain Field Seeds is moving variety trials beyond small plots and into working farms, launching a UK-wide network of farmer-led demonstration sites. The goal is to give growers a clearer view of how varieties perform under commercial conditions, says the seed breeder. Instead of relying solely on tightly controlled... Read more

A free-to-use crop rotation planning tool has been launched to help growers weigh up the financial and environmental impacts of changing their cropping systems. Developed by ADAS as part of the Nitrogen Climate Smart project, the Crop Planner tool uses data from hundreds of crops within the Yield Enhancement... Read more