Blogs
Higher beer and malt consumption
Global beer consumption topped 182.69m kilolitres in 2010, a rise of 2.4% on the previous year, according to Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings.
Defra stats confirm size of UK harvest
The UK wheat crop totaled 15.3m tonnes this harvest, 3% more than last year, according to final results from Defra’s national survey
mixture of rolled barley,maize wheat and soya beans - Cows 365 Blog - FWispace
Travelled up from Roscrea to County Laois to one of the best Limousin breeders in the British isles. The stock here are excellent. Today we were scanning
Ploughing For Spring Barley - Farmer Jake's Blog - FWispace
On Friday 10th December I was invited by UAP to go and listen to a talk all about Direct Drilling and Minimum Tillage. The talk was being give by Steve
Wheat straw outshines barley at Berks auction
Wheat straw was in hot demand at a recent hay and straw sale at Newbury in Berkshire
South: Phenomenal amount of blackgrass
Most oilseed rape crops are growing with fury like it was spring and are at the eight leaf stage. These crops will need a PGR fungicide treatment based on metconazole or tebuconazole if not already done so. Ensure to use...
West: Late maize harvest delays some wheat drillings
With much of the southwest wheat crop due to be planted after maize, a late maize harvest inevitably means that the following wheat is going to be late-drilled. The more favourable maize sites have only been marginally later to harvest...
Contract to entice barley growers
A new contract for selected growers of Null-Lox spring malting barley has been launched by Gleadell
Frontier signs barley deal with Molson Coors
Frontier Agriculture has agreed a deal with Molson Coors UK which will see the Cargill-owned grain trader supply about 85% of the brewer's barley.A growing proportion of the malting barley supplied by Frontier comes from customers who are members of...
Census reveals higher wheat and osr areas
The amount of wheat, barley and oilseed rape in the ground for this harvest were all above last year, according to provisional results from Defra’s June 2011 Census
