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A project to detect potato diseases and defects before they hit supermarket shelves is being carried out by B-hive Innovations.

WITH British Sugar’s Bury St Edmunds factory opening earlier than usual this year, the 2021/22 sugar beet campaign has kicked off in Suffolk.

The high of a good growing season for sugar beet crops is now being curbed by concerns that the HGV driver shortage will leave factories backed up and growers having to deliver their own beet.

Some long-awaited finer weather in the final week of August allowed harvest progress to ramp up, and as of September 7, 90 per cent of the UK’s winter wheat area had been harvested according to AHDB.

It would appear at the time of writing that British Summertime has called time early, with the past couple of weeks having much more of an autumn vibe.

It would appear at the time of writing that British Summertime has called time early, with the past couple of weeks having much more of an autumn vibe.

Scotland’s 2021 harvest campaign has to date been one of the easier and earlier ones.

Graeme Skinner, independent potato agronomist and director of Provenance Potatoes, said it had been one of the most difficult seasons he could remember

IN Gloucestershire wheat yields have made a welcome comeback after last year’s challenges for Bibury grower Ed Horton, with some fields yielding around double what they did at harvest 2020.

With a winter barley world yield record already in the bag this harvest, Lincolnshire grower Tim Lamyman had hopes of achieving a double by taking the world wheat yield record too.