Virus-spreading aphids and the risk they pose to winter cereal crops are the subjects of a new management tool and aresearch project funded by AHDB. Barley/cereal yellow dwarf viruses (BYDV) are mainly transmitted by the bird cherry–oat aphid and the grain aphid – via wingless and winged forms. Wingless aphids, which live on grass or …
The AHDB Monitor Farm network have run a Labour & Machinery review on over 20 farms stretching the length and breadth of the UK, here AHDB’s Harry Henderson shines a light on the findings. Across the AHDB Monitor Farm network, with the help of Strutt & Parker we have run a Labour & Machinery review …
AHDB’s Petworth Monitor Farm group reignited two popular debates at their recent meeting (18 October 2018): discs versus tines and ‘to till or not to till’. The Monitor Farm group is hosted by Mark Chandler at Moor Farm in West Sussex. Mark and the other farmers in the group wanted to see how different levels …
