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Wheat being combined in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex. © Mark Smith

Harvest 2017: Combines are busy between the showers

24h Barley Harvest Wheat

World's first 'hands-free' crop gears up for harvest

15h Harvest Technology
Early maturing season spawns high-dormancy blackgrass seed

22 Aug 2017 Blackgrass
Grain quality slumps in wet southern English harvest

22 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest Wheat
Video: Seed wheat harvest under way in Shropshire

21 Aug 2017 Harvest Wheat
Harvest 2017: Growers forced to cut crops at higher moisture

18 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest Wheat
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18 Aug 2017 Careers
English oat area soars by 17% as OSR takes a tumble in 2017

17 Aug 2017 Barley OSR Other crops Wheat
Harvest 2017: Wheat quality woes while barley looks promising

16 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest Wheat
Video: Spring malting barley harvest kicks off in Norfolk

15 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest Varieties
Neonics pose 'real threat' of bumblebee extinction

15 Aug 2017 Pesticides
Arable farmers offered cash to ditch metaldehyde pellets

15 Aug 2017 Business Environmental issues Pesticides
EU updates greening rules after EFA pesticide ban

14 Aug 2017 Payments and schemes
Harvest 2017: Ripe crops await combines across the UK

14 Aug 2017 Harvest
Surge in soya area predicted next season

11 Aug 2017 Other crops
Harvest 2017: Lincs grower hits OSR yield of nearly 5t/ha

10 Aug 2017 Harvest OSR
19 tweets from farmers as rain halts harvest

09 Aug 2017 Harvest
Harvest 2017: Growers cut between rain showers

09 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest Wheat
Harvest 2017: Wet weather heightens wheat quality fears

08 Aug 2017 Harvest Wheat
Harvest 2017: Growers forced to cut ripe crops in the wet

07 Aug 2017 Harvest
Free packs of oilseed rape seed offered to beat flea beetle

07 Aug 2017 Establishment OSR Research
Harvest 2017: Hybrid barley yielding strongly in Suffolk

04 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest
Oilseed rape area set to rise after five years of falls

03 Aug 2017 Establishment OSR
Combines avoid the showers in the North

02 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest OSR Wheat
Grain quality concern over wheat harvest

01 Aug 2017 Harvest Wheat

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EFA rules – changes and options explained

3m Business Payments and schemes

Farmer Focus: Challenge of arable farming around the world

7m Currency exchange Farmer Focus
Harvest 2017: The 5 top-yielding winter wheat varieties

22 Aug 2017 Harvest Varieties Wheat
Farmer Focus: Challenging harvest with lodged crops

22 Aug 2017 Farmer Focus Harvest
Video, photos and reports from the Arable Horizons talks
Video: How nozzle choice affects spray quality and efficacy

21 Aug 2017 Pesticides Sprayers & fertiliser spreaders
How to reduce the risk of costly OSR crop failures

21 Aug 2017 Establishment OSR
How encouraging bees can lift arable crop yields by a third

18 Aug 2017 Environmental issues Wildlife
Farmer Focus: Wheat yields beat expectations after dry spring

17 Aug 2017 Farmer Focus Harvest Wheat
Farmer Focus: Sun, sea and oilseed rape

15 Aug 2017 Farmer Focus
What the new type of wheat fungicides will have to offer

14 Aug 2017 Diseases Fungicides Wheat
Farmer Focus: Challenging weed control in US soya beans

12 Aug 2017 Farmer Focus Other crops Weeds
How changing crop can help reduce the blackgrass burden

11 Aug 2017 Blackgrass Establishment Research
The best cultivation techniques to cut slug damage

10 Aug 2017 Pesticides Pests Wheat
Farmer Focus: Maris Otter barley performs well at harvest

10 Aug 2017 Barley Farmer Focus Harvest
How to reduce spray drift this autumn

09 Aug 2017 Blackgrass Pesticides
Harvest 2017: The 5 top-yielding winter barley varieties

08 Aug 2017 Barley Harvest Varieties
Last minute tips for drilling oilseed rape

08 Aug 2017 Establishment OSR
Farmer Focus: Cropping plans finalised as rain halts harvest

08 Aug 2017 Barley Farmer Focus Harvest Varieties Wheat
Oilseed rape established for £15/ha by autocasting seed

07 Aug 2017 Establishment OSR Research
Farmer Focus: Drone deployed to map blackgrass burden

05 Aug 2017 Blackgrass Farmer Focus Harvest
Ways to cut the risk of herbicide-resistant weeds

04 Aug 2017 Blackgrass Herbicides Pesticides Weeds
Harvest 2017: The 5 top-yielding oilseed rape varieties

03 Aug 2017 Harvest OSR Varieties
How to use integrated methods to control blackgrass

03 Aug 2017 Blackgrass Herbicides Pesticides Weeds
Farmer Focus: Rapeseed yields up 1t/ha on harvest 2016

03 Aug 2017 Farmer Focus Harvest OSR
Video: World record OSR yield attempt in Lincolnshire

02 Aug 2017 Establishment Harvest OSR Varieties

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