I wait all year for the first tender greens to leaf out in my garden. Before full heads and large leaves have time to form, I ...

Essex grower Ed Ford has switched to spring barley to help him beat blackgrass on his heavy clay land and a new drill is already helping with the transition. The spring crop has replaced poor-yielding ...

Cambridgeshire grower Robert Todd is pleased with the yield and quality of his early harvested malting spring barley. It was achieved with the use of liquid fertiliser and conserving moisture at ...

Spring crops are now emerging strongly across the country, but so too are the weeds that threaten yield, grain quality and harvests. For tillage farmers growing spring barley and sugar beet, the ...

Spring barley remains the most popular and, usually, profitable of the spring cropping options in Scotland but that top ranking for profitability depends on attaining good yields of over 6 t/ha. The ...

This year is in stark contrast to last year when much of the land was still largely waterlogged. A huge proportion of the spring barley has now been sown - much of it three weeks earlier than 2024 - ...

Relying on the same herbicide year after year is similar to overusing antibiotics: it delivers good control initially, but ...

PARIS, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Nearly all soft wheat crops in France, the European Union's biggest producer, were in good shape in the week to Feb. 14, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Friday in its first ...

In many regions of the Earth, agriculture is threatened by a lack of water. Therefore, new plant varieties must be developed that are especially resistant to drought. For scientists at the Max Planck ...