One of the few post-emergence herbicides for beans and the only post-em available for some especially challenging weeds in the pea crop, such as black nightshade, bentazone, is under threat after four decades of use. Commonly used on beans, peas, linseed, alliums and...
Due to a further surge in demand for trainees, Management Development Services (MDS) is calling for ambitious graduates, both recent and from previous years, to apply for its two-year graduate training programme in the food and fresh produce industry. The MDS graduate...
With an estimated two to three million tonnes of plastics used in agriculture each year, eight North East farmers formed a group to explore new, responsible ways, of disposing of, and reducing, the production of waste plastic. The scope of the ‘Thainstone Silage Wrap...
A diverse, female team has been announced to jointly chair the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) – the first time in the event’s 76-year history. Agri-food industry experts Barbara Bray and Sarah Mukherjee were appointed to the voluntary position at the end of the...