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Solitary bees thrive in flowering oilseed rape

Solitary bees thrive in flowering oilseed rape
02-05-2008 12:52 PM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Inspections on bee colony losses to be given higher priority
As a precautionary measure, work on the investigation of bee colony losses by the National Bee Unit (NBU), which commenced last year, is being given h...
30-04-2008 09:24 AM | Arable, Crops, Bees and Beekeeping, News
Compass points towards cost-effective disease protection
As late season diseases in oilseed rape start to develop and require treatment, some growers are pointing towards the fungicide Compass for cost-effec...
23-04-2008 13:51 PM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Family committment help build Holstein success
Sit with the Gould family round their kitchen table and you’ll certainly not go short of genuine Lancashire hospitality - the fact this kitchen ...
01-04-2008 14:55 PM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Wildflowers' seed of hope
Charities paint brighter picture for endangered wildflower species Endangered wildflowers and wildflower meadows could delight future generations tha...
10-02-2008 15:30 PM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Bee Virus Could Wipe Out Mankind, Warn Scientists
A VIRUS which has wiped out billions of bees could cause a global catastrophe worse than climate change, scientists claim. A race against time is on ...
31-10-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News, Shows and Events
Three tourism providers win top National Park Bumble Bee B&Bs Awards
Three Coquet Valley B&B’s have been honoured with a new, National Park green award for nature tourism. Silverton House, Tosson Tower Farm and P...
27-10-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping
West Lakes farmer wins contract with store giant
A LAWYER turned Lakes farmer has won a contract to supply supermarket giant Booths with pork. Tony Fox is rearing British Saddleback pigs on his fa...
29-08-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Healthy heather crop comes to the rescue of Willie's bees
A surprisingly good crop of heather in the hills of north Northumberland and the Scottish Borders has come to the rescue of millions of honey bees aft...
29-06-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, Supermarkets, News
Sainsbury’s helps the plight of the bumblebee
Sainsbury’s declares war and fights for better farming practices to improved farmland bio-diversity. With an army of bumblebees on the front li...
28-05-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Wildlife benefits of set-aside under threat
Set-aside land was originally introduced in the 1980s as part of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to reduce over-production of food in the EU.  Fi...
02-05-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Protect your investment from flowering pest attack in rape
If pest thresholds for seed weevil are reached and attack from pod midge also threatens, it makes sense to protect the investment made to date in wint...
12-04-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Filan – top class broad-spectrum disease control with added bonuses
As oilseed rape moves into the flowering phase, growers will be moving their attention to the late diseases, Sclerotinia, Alternaria and Botrytis. The...
10-04-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Shooting stems pose OSR management problems
Oilseed rape crop main stem growth is shooting ahead this season, but the secondary side shoots trying to catch up are more vulnerable to pest and dis...
28-03-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Farmers break new ground in University podcast
Three Scottish farmers lectured students at the University of Leeds this week about how they are already coping with the effects of climate change. Bu...
13-02-2007 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Use technology to grow - and profit
Growers attending the ADAS/Syngenta UK Vegetable Industry Conference this week (Wednesday 7 February) were told to adopt new technology and ideas to h...
11-12-2006 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News, Shows and Events
Young Farmers step into the spotlight
YOUNG farmers swapped life in the great outdoors for ’the smell of the greasepaint and roar of the crowd’ when they took part in their ann...
18-09-2006 00:00 AM | News, Bees and Beekeeping
Border Farm is Britain's 'Most beautiful'
A north Northumberland farm in the Till Valley, eight miles west of Berwick and three miles from the Scottish Border, is Britain’s ’Most B...
05-09-2006 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Big Boost for the British Bumblebee
You may have noticed fewer bumblebees around during the summer, this is because they are in serious decline in the UK according to research1. To help ...
20-05-2006 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Protecting the rape canopy
The risk of disease development in oilseed rape canopies rises as humidity increases. High humidity encourages wet weather diseases, such as Botrytis ...
19-04-2006 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Reservoir brings sweet taste of success to Suffolk farmer
A 20-million gallon water storage reservoir has been built near Woodbridge thanks to funding from Defra’s Rural Enterprise Scheme (RES). The ...
13-02-2006 00:00 AM | Arable, Bees and Beekeeping, News
New Levels Of Protection For Potato Crops
Bayer CropScience today unveiled two new products – Infinito, a mid- to late season blight fungicide, and Biscaya, a foliar insecticide – developed to...
23-11-2005 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
NFU to prepare Cheshire farmers for more changes in beef market
Uncertainty once again surrounds the Cheshire farming industry as it enters yet another period of change now that cattle over thirty months old is all...
20-10-2005 00:00 AM | Arable, Bees and Beekeeping, News
Operation Bumblebee redresses plight of the bumblebee
Operation Bumblebee is set to revive the fortunes of the humble bumblebee across the entire UK arable farming area. Over 1000 farmers are now being so...
18-10-2005 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Coasting into seaside job
A Lake District ranger is moving areas to protect a patch he says is unparalleled with fells meeting coast in a landscape he loves. Taking over the...
14-10-2005 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Passion for Pumpkins at Countryside Live!
Photo shows, left to right: Patrick Cremins, Diane Kirkman, Education Administration of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, and Sandra Cremins with th...
27-09-2005 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
No stings attached for Kiwi bee adventure
A Lake District ranger is buzzing off for some antipodean apiary, swapping his Ullswater patch for beehives down under. After 17-years caring for t...
05-05-2005 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, Poultry Veterinary
Red mite - An irritating threat
Red mite, once thought to be a disease of the past, is now a cause of increasing problems in the free range layer and in other sectors of the poultry ...
05-03-2005 00:00 AM | Arable, News, Bees and Beekeeping
Watch out for beetles when the warmer weather comes
The poor state of many oilseed rape crops coming out of winter makes them particularly vulnerable to attack by pollen beetle in March, warns Jon Oakle...
03-03-2004 00:00 AM | Arable, Bees and Beekeeping, News
Grow quality wheats - say leading merchant and UK miller
’Grow quality wheat’s and we will buy them.’ That was the clear message from Banks Cargill Seeds Director Charlie Whitmarsh, and RHM...
02-10-2003 00:00 AM | Bees and Beekeeping, News
Slug surge makes fast crop protection key
A surge in slug activity in the event of rain will make fast crop protection a priority to avoid damage to seedlings. With rain forecast for many reg...
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