Growing the Crop [AR.GC]

Check Your Wheat’s Revised Yellow Rust Resistance Rating

Several winter wheat varieties have seen significant drops in yellow rust resistance ratings in the latest AHDB Recommended List (RL) 2026/27 release, some by as many as five points. The…

Harvest Overview 2025 – Mixed Fortunes Across The UK

The Scottish Government has released its initial estimates of area, yield, and production for the 2025 harvest, covering the main cereal and oilseed crops – winter and spring barley, wheat, oats, and…

Managing Light Leaf Spot Risk in Oilseed Rape

Light leaf spot (LLS), caused by the fungal pathogen Pyrenopeziza brassicae, remains one of the most damaging diseases of oilseed rape. Once considered mainly a problem in Scotland and northern England, it is now widespread across…

How to Get Oilseed Rape off to a Good Start

Over the past decade many growers have increased their proportion of spring malting barley grown due to it having good levels of profitability and being relatively cheap to grow. However,…

Autumn-Sown Cereal Variety Changes

The winter barley list includes six new two-row feed varieties: NOS Olena, KWS Heraclis, Kitty, KWS Valencis, Rosemary and Organa. The are also three new sixrow hybrids: SY Quantock, Inys…

Keeping on top of disease in spring barley

With spring barley crops sown so much earlier this year, there’s inevitably a greater exposure time to foliar disease and a few early disease risks to watch for this season.…

Spring cereal varieties (Summer 2024 update)

In this episode Tiffany Stephenson is joined by Dr Steve Hoad, team leader in agronomy, physiology & genetics at SRUC, to provide an update on how spring cereal varieties have been performing during the 2024 variety trials, along with his top variety picks.