Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.
With the recent announcement of its ‘Farming for Nature’ programme, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown spoke to Waitrose’s Jake Pickering about the retailer’s relationship with farmers
Joining the Agritechnica previewed CR11, the comparatively smaller CR10 made its global debut at Cereals 2024.
Having amassed close to two centuries-worth of data, the Broadbalk experiment continues to reveal new insights and findings relevant to modern agriculture
This week from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian's editor Olivia Midgley
Cambridgeshire brothers Mat and Lloyd Smith are taking bold steps to safeguard a sustainable future for their family's fenland arable farm. Teresa Rush reports
Over the last few months, the digital passport leadership group has been working on proposals for a digital combinable crops passport to replace the current paper passport
Olly Harrison, Martin Williams and John Branson baked the loaf of bread which weighs over 2,000kg
Jack Scott knew agriculture was for him after attending an Open Farm Sunday event at Nonington Farms
John Deere recently announced the launch of eight new five and six straw walker combines. But what will farmers and contractors alike expect from the new models? James Huyton finds out more