Arable
MMN November 2024 – Cereals Update
UK Cereals Market Update and Global Impacts AHDB have published the 2024/25 Early Balance Sheets for wheat and barley for the UK. Wheat production at 11.05Mt is down 21% on…
Read More >
European Potato Yield Predictions
Earlier in the summer the European Commission’s Monitoring of Agricultural Resources (MARS) June bulletin painted a potentially gloomy picture of reduced potato yields throughout Europe. However, in the September issue,…
Read More >
Distillery By-Products In Livestock Rations
Distillery by-products are a popular choice to provide additional protein and energy in livestock rations, but over the years the tonnage available in Scotland has fallen significantly as more and…
Read More >
Forage Triticale: Value on Mixed Arable and Livestock Farms
Triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye, makes up a small fraction of the agricultural area in Scotland at 0.1% of combinable crops in the 2024 Scottish Agricultural Census. It…
Read More >
Farm Management Handbook 2024/25
The 45th edition of the Farm Management Handbook is an essential tool for any progressive farm business, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for farmers, crofters, rural professionals,…
Read More >
Ensuring Safe Storage for Wet Malting Barley
This article is produced as a part of the FAS Crops & Soils Bulletin. Subscribe now to receive the full report in your inbox monthly. The later and more challenging…
Read More >
Spring cereal varieties (Summer 2024 update)
In this episode Tiffany Stephenson is joined by Dr Steve Hoad, team leader in agronomy, physiology & genetics at SRUC, to provide an update on how spring cereal varieties have…
Read More >
In Conversation With…Global and Scottish Grain Markets
Welcome to the August episode of In Conversation With… hosted this month by Principal Consultant Mark Bowsher-Gibbs. On today’s episode Mark is joined by Julian Bell (Principal Consultant with Agrecalc)…
Read More >
Thrill of The Hill – Understanding Soil From The Ground Up with Lorna Galloway
Soil is a perennial topic, something that needs to be discussed on a recurring basis, and last time we did so was with Dr Bill Crooks some years ago now.…
Read More >
CropCast – Fungicide Performance 2024
In this episode Tiffany Stephenson is joined by Professor Fiona Burnett, an applied plant pathologist at SRUC to discuss the performance of fungicides during the challenging growing season, that has…
Read More >