The challenges currently facing arable farmers make it all the more important to choose varieties most suited to specific production situations, says ProCam seeds and traits manager Will Miller. The task of evaluating the characteristics of each of the vast range of varieties in the market is a massive process and there is growing...

Maximising crop yields to boost returns is the best way to safeguard margins in increasingly volatile global market conditions, visitors to ProCam’s Spring Conference were told. Focusing purely on cutting costs can have unwanted effects on output and plant health with a significant drop in production efficiency resulting, they were...

UK arable production margins are holding up better than many on the world stage but there are signs that the country’s productivity is slowing compared to other countries, visitors to ProCam’s spring conference were told. The downturn in grain prices is affecting soya and maize producers more than wheat-based countries but a...

Options for lifting the productivity of UK arable production were under the spotlight at ProCam’s recent spring conference with greater use of data to fine-tune management, field operations and marketing opportunities very much at their heart. Arable crop production is heading to a future where information of growers’ individual...