With so much to do at Cereals, Farmers Weekly has pulled together some of the highlights that can be found among the 64ha of stands and live demonstrations, involving more than 490 leading suppliers.

No other event in the UK offers such a complete collection of arable expertise, technical and financial, to help growers maximise yields and margins and keep their businesses on track.

Here’s our at-a-glance guide to help you make the most of your day.

1. Arable Conference

Twenty top panelists and audience debate four topical issues:

• Will EU red tape strangle the UK agri-science strategy at birth? (Weds am)
  
• Have the wheat claims from last harvest been excessive? (Weds pm)
  
• Who calls the shots in the grain chain? (Thurs am)
  
• Can we break out of the wheat yield plateau? (Thurs pm)

2. Business Area

• Wide array of business advice, products and services
  
• Grain marketing advice
  
• Land purchase and renting
  
• Legal and financial services
  
• IT software
  
• Industry institutes and associations

3. Crop Plots

• Arable innovation in a practical setting
  
• Hundreds of varieties to match market and farm
  
• Agchem advice – fungicide strategies and weed control
  
• Crop nutrition and soil health
  
• Free agronomy advice for your farm

4. Renewables

• The place to assess renewable business opportunities


• Biomass boilers, biogas plants, wind turbines, solar power and fuel crops


• Free advice on grant applications, agronomy and marketing

5. Technical Seminars

NEW for 2013

• Experts, farmers and audience debate latest thinking on hot industry topics


• Correcting soil damage after 2012 deluge (Weds am)


• Wheat fungicide programmes – is £120/ha the new norm? (Weds pm)


• Beyond GPS – making precision decisions (Thurs am)


• Straw burning – turning up the heat on blackgrass (Thurs pm)

6. Machinery

• More than 90 leading manufacturers on hand


• Perfect shop window for new kit


• Expert advice on tap


• Combines, tractors, cultivation kit, drills, trailers and chaser bins


• Potato and beet equipment also on show


• Precision and controlled traffic farming


• Working demonstration area of 10ha

7. Post Harvest Technology

• Ideas and solutions for post-harvest needs


• Drying, ventilation and cleaning kit


• Handling and monitoring equipment


• Storage solutions for all crop types and tonnages


• Processing equipment on display

8. Sprays & Sprayers

• Latest spraying technology and equipment


• Fifty self-propelled, mounted and trailed sprayers on demo


• Catering for all farm sizes and budgets – 24m mounted to 40m self-propelled


• Expert running commentary providing the facts


• Nozzle and application technology to improve efficiency

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