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With black-grass starting to rear its ugly head above crops this season, growers have until around the first week of June to decide what to do with badly affected areas, in order to prevent seed return.

Enhancing soil health and structure not only benefits crop growth, but it also has the potential to improve water quality. Íæż½ã½ã reports.

Delays to sugar beet planting could increase the risk of virus yellows infection at early crop growth stages, where emergence coincides with warmer weather and greater aphid pest activity.

In the latest episode of Crop it Like its Hot, the Arable Farming team delves into the world of water policy, application and economics, to find out: how can we make UK agriculture more water-secure?

The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) has published payment rates for farmed saved seed.

Maize and fodder beet growers are being urged to complete a survey about the impact of the loss of important seed dressings.

Increased disease pressure, but also an increase in fungicide prices will mean growers need to carefully consider T1 programmes this season.

Met with one of the wettest springs for many years, sugar beet growers have been making slow progress with drilling.