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This year’s Potatoes in Practice was the first major industry event since levy payers voted against supporting AHDB Potatoes.

The first RL winter oilseed rape yield results – from nine trials: Hampshire, Wiltshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Midlothian – were published today.

The NFU has said the publication by the Environment Agency (EA) of a regulatory position statement (RPS) on spreading organic manures is a missed opportunity.

Catchy weather has interfered with harvest progress with the danger that when the weather improves, there will be many crops ready to harvest at the same time.

With harvest now underway around the country, Cedric Porter takes a look at the market for barley this season

In the last of our series on cultivations, Mike Abram looks at how they can be used to improve control of grass-weed species.

Storm damage has led to winter barley and oilseed rape being flattened in some areas including Somerset and parts of East Anglia.

The first AHDB Recommended List (RL) harvest results – from three winter barley trial sites in Dorset, Lincolnshire and the Scottish Borders have been published.

Crop losses from last week’s European storms have already led to price rises

With winter barley harvest getting underway in the South, East and as far north as Yorkshire, early indications are of average yields but lower bushel weights and small grain size.