A series of arable technical workshops will debut at Cereals this year, designed to spark debate on key challenges facing the arable sector.

A panel of experts and commentators will aim to interact with the audience and provide them with valuable messages that will help them improve their technical performance and profits.

The workshops, taking place in the conference marquee, are expected to draw a large crowd and will cover a diverse range of topics, including correcting soil damage, fungicide budgets, precision farming and straw burning for blackgrass control.

“Cereals is well known for being the UK’s leading arable technical event, covering everything to do with cropping and machinery, as well as finance,” said event director Jon Day of Haymarket Exhibitions.

“The new workshops, together with the return of the ever-popular Arable Conference, in partnership with the Oxford Farming Conference, mean Cereals is also now one of the most important crop convention venues in the UK.”

Mr Day pointed out that the unrivalled collection of arable expertise present at the event will be invaluable after the poor weather growers have endured in recent months.

“There will be experts around every corner to offer growers advice on all areas of their business, whether financial or technical,” he added.

The Cereals Event will take place on the 12 and 13 June at Boothby Graffoe, Lincolnshire. Tickets cost £23 per adult and £19 per student and can be booked online at www.cerealsevent.co.uk

Technical workshop topics

• Correcting soil damage after the 2012 deluge
• Wheat fungicide programmes – is £120/ha the new norm?
• Beyond GPS – making precision decisions
• Straw burning – turning up the heat on blackgrass

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