'I was hoping I would find one good potato here, but there's not one left. They're all rotten.' says Paddy Graham-Jones of Albert Bartlett, the UK's leading potato supplier.

📈 With early & high aphid predictions, there’s a risk that #barley plants could become infected with the BYDV virus almost as soon as they emerge from the seedbed.

Our technical specialist Bill Lankford shares advice for early season spray programmes hubs.la/Q02snbPS0

The devastating impact of wet weather on farmers is still very much on the news agenda.

AHDB's Oliver Johnson spoke to BBC Breakfast to provide valuable insight of the recent wet weather on arable farming and food production.

Watch from 2:40:00 👉 ow.ly/iJB950RmZlg

Thank you and well done AF (The AF Group) fuels team. Proactive phone call to say that our diesel tank was 70% empty (Tank Scout), fuel price had dropped and would we like it filled. Keeping us going. Saving us money. Smart work. Thank you AF. 👍🏼⛽️📉

Any visible evidence of water in this soil?
After how much rain this winter?
#SoilHealth #regenag

Michael (Michael Sly) refers to challenges facing growers and British Sugar’s unilateral contract offer last year and updates that NFU Sugar has formally asked Defra to clarify the underlying legislation so it’s clear how contract negotiations must proceed.

🇺🇦 #Ukraine 's farm minister says heavy rains have delayed spring planting by around 20% compared with 2023. Ministry didn't provide year-ago data.

But I dug up some stories. See highlighted dates. About 750k ha of #corn sown this year vs 53k a year ago 🤔 2024 delay is unclear?

“We are likely to see a substantial slowdown in exports very soon because the country exported everything that it could,” Andrey Sizov told the Kyiv Independent.

As of April 17, the volume of exports since the start of the marketing season, which started in July 2023 and ends in…

Posting in full the agricultural fatalities for 2023-4.

32, which includes the most deadly single month (May) for 15 years.

Of particular awfulness are the deaths of 3 children under 2.

A farmer is 22x more likely to be killed than the average UK worker.

How do we improve?

🇺🇸U.S. winter #wheat conditions plunge 5 percentage points to 50% good/excellent (analyst range was 52-55). #Cotton planting is moving at an average pace but #corn , #soybeans and spring #wheat are all a bit ahead of average.

A large jump in wheat futures overnight. Up A$10.

US wheat conditions decline
Russian exports down.
Northern hemisphere weather window in sight.

A great farming friend Tim Parton has sustained a life changing injury and will needs financial support to move forward with life .One way the farming community can show their appreciation towards a wonderful friend is leaving a donation here:
gofund.me/34c943d7
Thank you.

Please retweet to help Gerri and Maggie find a home together #MANCHESTER #UK
🔷BONDED PAIR AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION, REGISTERED BRITISH CHARITY🔷
Lurchers aged 5, they love human interaction. Found together the shelter is trying to find them a home that can take them both. PLEASE…

Tim is a great personal friend and farming inspiration, always willing to give advice and share his experiences freely, w myself or anyone. He is on the mend but faces a long road of recovery. If you could spare a little to assist him on this road it would be greatly appreciated.

Fitting on the left is from Kuhn for the sprayer €22.50 fitting on the right was just got a local plumbing store €3.80 same size fitting but farmers getting charged almost 6 times the price , some money in farming 🤦‍♂️

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

ICYMI 📻| NFU @cropsboard member Richard Heady (@HeadysFarm) was interviewed by John Pienaar on Times Radio yesterday evening discussing the impact the extreme wet weather has had on his own farm's spring planting.

Listen from 1:25:06 👉 ow.ly/GwUQ50RjHYh

Russia struck two food export terminals at Ukraine's Pivdennyi port today, one of which is owned by a Singaporean company. Agricultural products destined for Asian and African countries were destroyed in them.

Dear partners in the Global South, this is Russia's true attitude…

How one Norfolk farm is aiming to bridge the gap between research and farming - Farm manager of David Jones David Jones is closely involved with the planning and management of one of the largest agricultural trials hubs in the UK.
Read more ⬇️
farmersguardian.com/feature/418836…

#arable

British milk - £1.06 a litre
Water - £1.20 a litre

Whole chicken - £3.22
Cup of coffee - £3.36

Food can’t be sustainably produced for these prices.

theguardian.com/environment/20…