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A new digital tool has been launched to help growers make decisions around aphid management and when to act to prevent damage to their crops.

A farm with five or fewer staff and observing social distancing among workers need not register as an essential business.

The Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) says it has named one of its own as their 2019 Researcher of the Year.

Leeston cropping farmer Simon Osborne likes to point out that all life is a symbiosis.

Initial results from the first national survey of herbicide resistance in arable farming have shown surprising resistance to glyphosate.

The first step in tackling herbicide resistance in arable farming is admitting you have a problem, says Australian specialist Dr Peter Boutsalis.

Calling all graduates with an interest in the arable industry.

It was grassroots intelligence for farmers last week, when the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) opened the gates to its Chertsey trial farm in Mid Canterbury.

Arable farmers were called upon last week to help dairy farmers.

Canterbury cropping farmers now have access to a Farm Environment Plan (FEP) template developed especially for their farm system.