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The article reports on the increase in nitrogen prices across Great Britain. It mentions that Great Britain's manufactured ammonium nitrate is going in low prices to farms and states that imported ammonium nitrate has been barely able to compete with Great Britain product. It also mentions the prices of diammonium phosphate (DAP).

This section offers news briefs on British farm conditions in April 2016. Spring barley is drilled-up on all but the heaviest land at Agrii farm in Hampshire due to the cold, dry spell before Easter. T0 fungicides are being applied to winter wheats and winter barleys to deal with Leaf 4 infestations at the AICC farm in Lincolnshire. Early nitrogen has helped barley with new growth at the AICC farm in Avon.

The article describes the farms managed by Paul Sweeney, Iain Richards Agrii, Marion Self and Stephen Harrison in Great Britain. Topics covered include the application of canopy-building nitrogen to any rape crops, the high disease pressure revealed by field walking and the debate over the timing of plant growth regulatory fungicides. Also mentioned is the call for growers not to apply fungicides to oilseed rape.

The article reports that wheat varieties Skyfall and Trinity produced highest yields for Andrew Martin, wheat grower in Kent, England. Topics discussed include growth of the wheat varieties at farm Broad Stream Farming in Burmarsh, England, views of Martin to grow Trinity at Romney Marsh farm with heavier soils and role of soil mineral nitrogen levels on harvests depending on the seasons.