Edward Watson turned to spring barley to try and beat blackgrass on his family’s heavy-land farm. He is now growing a malting crop to rival the profit from his top-quality milling wheats. Good yields, ...

High screenings and variable nitrogen levels were an unwelcome feature of the Scottish malting crop last year, with growers reporting a £70/t hit on failed grain and the country awash with feed barley ...

This year is in stark contrast to last year when much of the land was still largely waterlogged. A huge proportion of the spring barley has now been sown - much of it three weeks earlier than 2024 - ...

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