Research Membership

This Skills Webinar from Premium Crops covered the value and purpose of Certified Seed, explaining how certification supports seed quality, varietal purity, food security, plant breeding investment, and farmer assurance, while comparing its benefits and costs against farm-saved seed and discussing future drivers such as genetics, hybridisation and end-user demand.

Each month, we update you on fuel prices which relate to our industry in order to help you benchmark and forecast your costs. This information is part of our endeavour to ensure we support you, our members, in the effective day-to-day running of your rural businesses.

In this short webinar, we walk through the Ceres Research Membership platform including; reports and insights tools, publications, videos and webinars, the Agronomy Club, member WhatsApp group and the wider Ceres Research community – showing how members use these resources to share knowledge, improve decisions and stay connected across the sector.

This interactive dashboard provides a clear and visual comparison of current and historic fuel prices. Select your product, enter your purchase price, and instantly see how you stack up.

It's a symptom that is raising plenty of questions this season. Is it potassium deficiency, phosphorus deficiency, BYDV, or simply a crop under stress? We explore the science behind anthocyanins, drought-driven senescence and what these unusual flag leaf symptoms could be telling us about crop health. We also revisit last year's discussion on pink straw and nutrient lock-up, including reports that dry conditions can leave significantly more potash in straw than normal, with implications and action points for nutrient offtake, straw value and nutrient replacement planning.

What should a 2027 rotation look like? While there is a clear opportunity to rethink approaches, the key question remains - do the numbers stack up? We explore rotation structures and break crop options through a gross margin lens.

The combination of a mild winter, early spring drought and elevated aphid populations had led to a perfect storm with aphid pressure this year. While this season's weather cannot be changed, decisions on green bridge control, drilling date, variety selection and field risk assessment will prove critical in reducing virus pressure next season.

This month's Agronomy Club covered current field insights in the run up to harvest including aphid pressure, BYDV and WDV, SFI & rotational planning including gross margin considerations for the upcoming season.

This month’s digest covers policy updates (SFI26, CSHT, FETF agreements), ADOPT trial opportunities, Lowland Peat Soils funding, latest innovations from the Ceres Innovation Group, slug hotspots and arable farm management software comparisons, a market snapshot and key reports including the Farm Practices Survey 26.