Reflecting on the season, Peter Lindsay said 2024 was a difficult year to trial different drills, with winter crops facing much higher rainfall than usual. The direct-drilled winter barley suffered ...

Crops can be rotated according to competitive ability. For instance, competitive crops such as barley or alfalfa could be grown before less competitive crops such as flax or lentil to start the less ...

Cereal growers in Northern Ireland are being encouraged to apply the first split of nitrogen fertiliser to winter barley ...

Both of these agricultural invaders have evolved to become more resistant to herbicides. New research helps unlock ...

Fusarium head blight has been a stubborn threat to cereal crops in Western Canada since the 1990s. Some years are worse than others, but when the ...