Soil and crops
Crop updates: May 2026
A fair degree of positivity reported from around the regions. Growers in those areas previously held up by rains through early April have completed drilling and the earlier drilled spring cereals appear to have left the starting gates running and commenced tillering achieving good ground cover for the time of year.…
- SRUC
- 13/05/2026
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Crop updates: late April 2026
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops. The health issues being seen in crops are a key part of the topical update and lets growers and agronomists adjust management practices appropriately.…
- SRUC
- 29/04/2026
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Crop updates: April 2026
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops. The health issues being seen in crops are a key part of the topical update and lets growers and agronomists adjust management practices appropriately.…
- SRUC
- 15/04/2026
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Crop updates: 27 March 2026
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops. The health issues being seen in crops are a key part of the topical update and lets growers and agronomists adjust management practices appropriately.…
- SRUC
- 09/04/2026
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Crop updates: March 2026
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops. The health issues being seen in crops are a key part of the topical update and lets growers and agronomists adjust management practices appropriately.…
- SRUC
- 16/03/2026
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Crop updates: February 2026
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops. The health issues being seen in crops are a key part of the topical update and lets growers and agronomists adjust management practices appropriately.…
- SRUC
- 17/02/2026
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Crop updates: January 2026
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops. The health issues being seen in crops are a key part of the topical update and lets growers and agronomists adjust management practices appropriately.…
- SRUC
- 19/01/2026
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Crop updates: December 2025
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops.…
- SRUC
- 06/01/2026
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Conference speakers to showcase solutions and spark potato sector innovation
From details of a Japanese knowledge exchange to water scarcity and how potato harvest waste can be used to make clothes, the annual SAC Association of Potato Producers (SACAPP) conference has a packed agenda.…
- SAC Consulting
- 04/12/2025
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Crop updates: November 2025
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them.…
- SRUC
- 18/11/2025
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Crop updates: October 2025
Our regular round up of the issues affecting crops around Scotland, summarises how crops are developing and what weather and other issues are affecting them. The update provides information on the progress with key field work activities as well as news on the pest, weed and disease problems being noted in crops.…
- SRUC
- 14/10/2025
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Scientists show how climate-smart forage can help farmers cut livestock emissions
The answer to how farmers in Africa and Asia could one day grow crops that are both resistant to a changing climate as well as being able to reduce methane emissions in cattle could be found in a laboratory in Scotland.…
- SRUC
- 01/10/2025
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