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The age-old drilling date debate is back, and Ash Ellwood ponders how growers can manage risk this autumn

With a reported £230m available when the SFI26 window two opens, growers need to be sure their paperwork, maps and existing agreements are in order before September 22

The early harvests continue with maize being foraged around the country but after a worrying growth period, yields are looking hopeful considering the year

Changing establishment systems, wet weather and fewer chemical options are forcing growers to rethink how they tackle increasingly difficult slug problems.

Taking place on October 15 at VOX in Birmingham, The British Farming Awards will welcome industry professionals from across the country to celebrate British agriculture and the successes it has had this year

Researchers are combining multispectral imaging, GPS mapping and precision spraying technology to develop a system capable of detecting and targeting slugs in commercial fields

Three years of farmer-led trials have revealed how mapping slug hotspots could allow growers to target control more accurately and potentially cut pellet use by 50%

A familiar active to sugar beet growers for decades, ethofumesate is now a similarly cost-effective active for wheat growers

Investment in automation has earned an innovation award for an Aberdeenshire business which exports potatoes directly to Egypt, alongside running a 200-cow pedigree Aberdeen-Angus suckler herd

With reports of the extended heatwave and drought severely affecting arable crops, one horticultural crop could have benefited from this testing season