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With maincrop potato lifting well underway, we catch up with two agronomists to see how crops have fared after the hottest summer on record

Trials show that delaying OSR drilling into late September can bring establishment and yield benefits

Dame Angela Eagle visited Marion Regan’s soft fruit farm in Kent this week

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.

Visitors to The Agroforestry Show were met with inspiring experiences and knowledge transfer opportunities within the two-day event in Hertfordshire

Growers in the UK are being warned to brace for a surge in rodent pressure this autumn and winter, following an extended period of above average temperatures

UK farmers have highlighted the impact of increased US bioethanol imports with the closure of Vivergo Fuels in Hull and the loss of an important market

Prices could sink lower owing to poor malting quality and challenging feed market

Arable farmers face crucial choices this autumn about how much — or indeed whether — to cultivate soils.