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The article presents news brief related to farming from Scotland. Easter Kilwhiss Farm grows cereals, vegetables and brassicas alongside a 300-head suckler herd. Q Fife is one of Scotland's foremost farming counties that produce about 15% of the Scottish wheat crop and about 5% of its oilseed rape and barley.

This article features Mark McFerran, a farmer who farms in partnership with his parents at Battletown Farm on the Ards Peninsula, County Down. Cereal cropping and potato marketing are the main enterprises on their loam unit. Their barley was sold at harvest time, but the wheat is still in store. McFerran is hoping to get a better price if they hold off selling.

Focuses on the efforts of JSR Farms to look for ways to improve crop performance. Range of wheat yields of the farm; Elements of the fertilizer approach at JSR; Financial and environmental benefits of the application map of JSR.

The author discusses conditions on his farm in England as of June 14, 2013. He talks about the deteriorating quality of mobile phone service from Orange and mentions the critical importance of mobile communication to rural life. The improvement in wheat and spring-sown crops is mentioned, as well as the poor conditions of oilseed rape throughout the Borders and Northumberland. The planting of cauliflower and broccoli is also addressed.

The author expresses gratitude for the limited rain his farm received that allowed him to save his wheat crop, just in time to fill the meager grains at his Euston Estate, south of Thetford, England. He feels good to cut the grass on his new lawn for the first time in 2011. He also feels honored to be one of the judges in the Cheshire County Farms competition in England. He hopes to gain wheat yield despite the dry weather condition.

The author talks about his crop farm in Great Britain as of October 2008. He notes that the difficult harvest has been completed with credit directed to the hard work of combining and bailing contractors as well as joint venture potato partners. He adds that wheat generated 10.3 tons per hectare (t/ha) at an average of 18% while the price and yield of potatoes were satisfactory on about 60% of the area. He intends to drill the wheat after potatoes through the cultivation of beds.

The article talks about his crop farm in Great Britain as of October 2008. He notes that his grain drier had a spontaneous combustion after it was turned off. He adds that they combined and drilled wheat on the same day as they started the new season right after the end of the previous season. He mentions that they are waiting for the forecast rain before they begin planting their second wheats.

The author talks about his crop farm in Great Britain as of October 2008. He notes that they were able to create good seed-beds for late-sown oilseed rape and first wheat crops as they leave a day between passes. He mentions that they have chosen oakley and winter barley for planting. He adds that their oilseed rape plants will be treated with post-emergence herbicide Novall plus insecticide.

The article offers updates on various crop farms across England. In Dorset, early-drilled wheats on fertile sites have started developing, with some main tillers at GS 30. Rape crops in Lincolnshire have, or are about to receive their first top dressing of nitrogen with sulphur, while second and late-drilled wheats will be top-dressed at the end of February 2008. Most cereal crops are relatively free of disease in Northumberland.

The article focuses on the cropping and cultivations strategy of the Newton Farms owned by James Willmott. According to Wilmott, they like to run double break crops to get seed-bed cleaned up in order to achieve high quality wheat. A 10-furrow Naud reversible plough and a 4.7 meter Gregoire Besson Discordon cultivator are used to get fields from stubble to seed-bed.

The article reports on the status of spring crops at the Docking Farm owned by Chris and Michael Harold located in Oulton, North Norfolk, England. A lovely spring day with the temperature at 17 degrees Celsius makes spring cropping at farm work fully up to date, except for gardening and grass cutting. Soils have also worked well. The other organic crop at the farm is Deben wheat sown in late November.

The article reports on the visit of Chinese delegates to the Grain/Farm iT event at Stoneleigh. The group's visit fueled speculation that China will be coming on to the wheat market with a large order book in 2004.