Content related to the topic: crops-grassland

23 June 2022

Unleashing the might in chitin for soil health

How chitinous by-product streams could help underpin soil health.

22 June 2022

A ‘ubiquitous’ future for early crop disease detection?

Understanding ‘ubiquitination’ could revolutionise disease management.

21 June 2022

Northern farmers discuss regenerative agriculture

Researchers tackle one of the biggest questions in farming – what does a ‘sustainable’ system look like?

17 June 2022

Earthworms: a crop disease biocontrol?

Learn how worms munch their way through disease-infected residues.

15 June 2022

Septoria: ‘Cougar’ effect in RL winter wheat trials

Should you use the one-year or three-year septoria tritici disease resistance ratings?

25 June 2025

Grow Wales Green: opportunity to be part of a pilot

If you want to try new ways to establish green protein forages and are able to offer up to 0.5ha during the 2022 growing season then we would like to hear from you.

8 June 2022

The smart pest monitoring tool with ‘eyes’ and a ‘brain’

Researchers have trained a tool to recognise a beetle pest of crops, even at night.

7 June 2022

Research reveals biopesticide mixing potential

Combining biopesticides in a single spray could help growers target multiple pests more effectively.

26 May 2022

Easy-Peasy: rapid soil phosphate test closer to market

Find out about a low-cost, rapid nutrient test under development at Rothamsted Research.

22 May 2024

Meet the Forage for Knowledge contributors - Apie Pieterse

South African Apie Pieterse manages a split-block herd in Nottinghamshire where he has not only learned rotational grazing from scratch, but also honed his skills on heavy land in a dry area.

27 October 2022

Meet the Forage for Knowledge contributors - James Muir

It’s been a tough year for grassland managers. Growing half of his normal dry matter has tested James Muir’s ability to adapt and build resilience into a 400-cow spring-calving business.

12 May 2022

Fungicide resistance management in winter wheat

With the winter wheat T2 timing near, plan now to protect modes of action from resistance.