The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) is to hold a free open day to give combinable pulse crop growers and their advisers an opportunity to see the sector’s latest trials and evaluation work at first hand. Farmers,...
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) is to take over the pea and bean Yield Enhancement Networks (YEN) from this autumn, building on fourteen years of the initiative facilitated by ADAS. Originally set up and run...
The first case of pea bruchid damage in a UK-grown commercial pea crop has been confirmed in a single sample grown on a farm in Cambridgeshire by the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO). The organisation is advising...
Work carried out under the Bean Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) in 2021 – the third year of the project – has highlighted key factors associated with high-yielding crops. The year saw 10% of the bean crops studied yield over 7...
Jim Scrimshaw, principal technical officer at the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO), is to leave the body after 33 years service. He will now focus on helping his wife in her plant nursery and landscaping business....
UK pulses have continued to strengthen into the new year on tight supplies, reports Pulses UK, While the lack of winter crop progress points to an increased pulse area for harvest 2020, it is hard to predict how much seed will actually get into the ground. “With the...