Crop Health

Cropcast: Ramularia

Ramularia has established itself as one of hardest of all pathogens to manage in our barley crops. Symptoms are unpredictable and severity varies hugely site to site and season to…

Crop Trials Research into Practice

In this podcast, Agricultural Consultants Julian Bell and Mark Bowsher-Gibbs review the 2021 growing season along with a few market predictions going forward. Expectations at sowing and following the cold…

A self propelled crop sprayer treating drills of potatoes, driving away from the viewer.

Pesticides – Sprayer filling and washing areas (podcast)

The focus of this episode is pesticide filling and handling areas – the pollution risks, the legislation, design considerations and the safe disposal of pesticide solutions. Agricultural Consultant George Chalmers…

Cropcast: Potato blight management

Cropcast continues. This month Prof Fiona Burnett, Dr Philip Burgess and Dr Ruairidh Bain talk about potato blight management.

Pesticide Information Note: Buffer Zones

This Pesticide Information Note looks at Buffer Zones areas that are used to help protect water environments when applying pesticides.

Winter Wheat – What to look for in Varieties for 2022 Harvest

The distilling and soft feed varieties feed our main markets in Scotland and include some of the highest yielding examples in trials, but varieties for feed, biscuit and milling markets can include some useful agronomic traits as well as diversifying markets a bit. Some of the key varieties to consider are summarised in the article.

Winter Barley Variety Choices

There has been really good progress in yield potential in some of the newer two and six row winter barley options for Scotland. Other agronomic traits are worth looking at too. Some carry specific weaknesses to key disease or differ markedly in standing strength. Early maturity can be important and we have also marked a few as doing particularly well on heavy soils.

Arable Scotland – Leading Discussion to Help and Inform the Farming Industry in Scotland

Next week’s Arable Scotland event on 29 June offers on-line resources and information relevant to the Scottish arable sector.

Organic Oilseed Rape Production in Scotland

Organically grown oilseed rape is not a crop typically associated with the UK, and certainly not in Scotland. However, this has all started to change over the last few years based around the experiences of a small group of farmers and other stakeholders, with the first commercial crops having been grown mostly in NE Scotland over the last three seasons.

Pesticide Information Note: Spray drift

Spray drift is a topic that has come under increasing focus as the general public take more interest in pesticides, their use and their residues.

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