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With hot temperatures expected into next week and tinderbox conditions, growers are being advised to stay vigilant to avoid combine fires.

Lack of rain and early crop senescence has meant that potassium offtake from straw could be significantly higher than usual this harvest.

High input costs and poor selling prices are squeezing incomes at horticultural businesses across the UK. Cedric Porter reports from Fruit Focus in Kent.

With temperatures yesterday reaching record highs, some growers were faced with the unusual challenge of OSR being too dry. 

Harvest has started in parts of the UK as warm weather continues

Good grain quality and ‘pleasing’ yields are being seen in Cambridgeshire as winter barley harvest commenced a week earlier than normal this year.

The average specific weight of UK flour millers’ Group 1 varieties remains at 75.4kg/hl, the lowest since 2012 (70.7kg/hl).

Most harvest results for the main winter wheat AHDB winter wheat Recommended List (RL) trials series are now available, offering a good idea of how varieties performed in 2021.  

In the last of our series, Íæż½ã½ã talks to two agronomists in the east and southwest to review the 2021 potato season and what lessons can be taken into next year.

Dry rot risk is high in Scotland this year and seed potato growers are being urged to apply tuber treatments as early as possible to prevent disease progression in store.