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Crop condition across Europe and the Black Sea will be a key focus as crops enter key production phases.

The ballot on continuation of the AHDB Potatoes levy saw more than 66 per cent of participants vote against. Alice Dyer and Marianne Curtis gauge reaction.

A decent spell of spring weather has seen field work progress up and down the country. However, delays to sugar beet seed deliveries on-farm are holding up drilling for some growers.

Serious about making more milk from forage? If you still have last season’s silage analysis reports, they offer a goldmine of tips for making better silage.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø were warning it could be the end of the British sugar industry if the processor did not take their concerns seriously

²ÝÁñÉçÇø deciding to enter the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot scheme later this year following a recent call for expressions of interest will have the choice of eight ‘standards’.

Differences in soil management are likely to account for N-min testing results that have either been not as low as expected or extremely low, following a wet winter, according to Dick Neale, technical manager at Hutchinsons.

South American weather and its potential impact on corn production from Argentina and Brazil remains a key market factor in the near term. 

Spring barley is expected to return to a more normal area of 700,000 hectares in 2021 compared with more than one million hectares planted last year.

Much needed spring sunshine and some good drying days have allowed growers to get their spring drilling campaigns underway.