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Growers angered by toxic manure threat
The Organic Growers Alliance has this week written to the Health and Safety Executive, the Food Standards Agency and the Pesticides Safety…
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PiP focus on industry’s changing priorities
Potatoes in Practice, Britain's most important field gathering for the potato industry in 2008, takes place at Gourdie Farm, by Invergowrie, Dundee…
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Growers urged to quantify costs
As crop production costs spiral, serious savings can be made across a range of potato inputs if you manage and monitor them carefully. This was the…
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Keep up robust protection against foliar and tuber blight through until harvest
Although not as severe as last year, there has been consistently high blight pressure as indicated by a run of Smith Periods throughout the early and…
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Low biomass rape tops gross margin table
Low biomass oilseed rape has topped the gross margin table for next years harvest, with a projected Gross Margin of £962/hectare, compared with…
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Beeting your head against a brickwall?
The 11th July option deadline, once offered by British Sugar in June, is passed and neither the NFU nor British Sugar yet really know who will plant…
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China to urgently boost GM crop development
China has said it must urgently step up the development of genetically modified crops as it faces mounting challenges to feed its 1.3 billion people…
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More Thai corn sales after India export ban
The estimated rise in Thailand's 2008-09 corn crop of 3.7 million tons, up from the proceeding year's 3.6 million tons, is expected to double Thai…
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EU goes against grain on crop treatments
Arable farmers have enjoyed much improved fortunes over the past year, and cereal crops, though still some weeks away from the start of harvest, give…
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Amistar Top delivers higher quality greens
Brassica growers could deliver higher quality brassicas this season, with the help of extra curative activity from Amistar Top programmes, according…
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