Tagged: sustainable agriculture

First-Ever Sustainability Ratings Established for Winter Cereal Varieties

August 16, 2020

The first-ever sustainability ratings for all today’s leading winter wheat and barley varieties have been published this season to help growers choose cereals offering them the greatest agronomic strength with the least production risk and environmental impact. The ratings are… Read more

Tagged #  Agrii advisory list, AHDB RL, best wheat, Cereals, disease, disease pressure, genetics, lodging, rating, recommended list, Sustainability, sustainable agriculture, variety characteristics

Building on a Traditional Recipe with Innovation in Fife

December 20, 2019

At first sight Lacesston at Gateside near Cupar is a traditional North east Fife family farm. Potatoes and spring barley are its mainstays, with soft wheat grown for distilling and oats for Quaker. All its sandy loam arable ground is… Read more

Tagged #  agronomist, barley, conservation, cover crop, donald hay, john weir, liming, oats, potatoes, precision agriculture, Precision Farming, precision growing, rtk precision, scotland, soil care, soil health, sustainable agriculture, variable rate, winner