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The 2020 AHDB Planting and Variety Survey has revealed a large swing to spring cropping due to poor autumn conditions.

Overall nitrogen rates applied to arable crops saw a 5kg/hectare decrease in 2019 compared with the previous year.

How the fodder stores have changed in three weeks. Throughout the first half of the year there have been significant concerns about tonnages of crops grown from grass all the way through to arable crops, largely as a result of difficult weather conditions.

Growing higher value crops such as sugar beet and hemp could create opportunities for new entrant farmers an Arable Scotland webinar heard.

Covid-19 has seen a spike in labour costs of up to 15 per cent leaving British growers in an ‘unsustainable’ situation, a new report has revealed.

Studies at James Hutton Institute are looking at how integrating broad-leaf weeds into arable fields could enhance biodiversity without robbing yield.

In times of crisis and disruption, it turns out the British public does not turn towards falafel or hummus as comfort food, but rather red meat and pizza to get it through lockdown.

Arable Scotland will take place in a virtual format today, organised and hosted by the James Hutton Institute, AHDB, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and Farm Advisory Service.

A new tool, SeedGerm - based on machine learning-driven image analysis – is able to test seed samples to ensure a certain germination rate is met in a low-cost, high-throughput and semi-automated way.