oats

Hi, Does anyone have any advice for potential cover crops following beet treated with cruiser. Obviously anything flowering is restricted to 36 months, so from whats available, what will do the best job in terms of cover and rooting. It is not a big area, but messed up whilst lifting beet too...

How much nitrogen in seed bed for spring barley? In units per acre please so I can understand it!!

Frost on the ground in parts this morning and we have 45 acres of maize going in today. I'll let you know in a fortnight wether it was the right call. Hope to get a photo up later.

Hi, I left it late to buy my spring oat seed,I'm looking for 2.5t of either Isabel or husky,but rang around everywhere that I can think of in Ireland and they say they are out of stock. I never thought buying seed would be a problem. Any ideas? Would anyone in the UK send some over?

Interested to hear how late you would consider drilling wholecrop peas & barley in the Southwest on heavy clay soil? New to growing this after being recommended it for a protein crop. The field has just got dry enough to kill off with this intention or should I just be going in with maize...

Several fields of hybrid rye where the crop has only really survived on top of drains. Maybe 20% of field areas actually growing, so no point patching. No spring fert or autumn herbicide at all. What to do? Ground/soil is sadder than I’ve ever known it, and we’ve had some sad springs. Possible...

some pretty generous grants about, all seemingly based on reducing out put. we know from sheep and cattle prices, numbers are short, if they were not, prices wouldn't be where they are. the world is getting more dangerous by the day. And yet, politicians here, from all parties, think we can...

Hi all, my winter barley never received a pre em and there is now meadow grass in areas of the field. Will anything touch it? Will need spraying for wild oats, will axial pro just knock the meadow grass and it will recover? Tia

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The UK is seeing fewer and fewer ‘perfect’ spray days, so being ready to utilise any weather window that comes along is increasingly important. CPM speaks to a farm manager whose investment in a new self-propelled sprayer with pulse width...

We’ve always grown s barley for wholecrop, but last year‘s efforts were horrendous. Sodding wet spring (after dusty Feb/March), followed on by many weeks of no rain. Barley got sown late, established then gasped for water. None of it managed to get over 12 inches high. This year’s heading the...

We’ve always grown s barley for wholecrop, but last year‘s efforts were horrendous. Sodding wet spring (after dusty Feb/March), followed on by many weeks of no rain. Barley got sown late, established then gasped for water. None of it managed to get over 12 inches high. This year’s heading the...

It’s been a hell of a wet time. We have some seriously slumped soils. What are people planning to do to alleviate the damage? Leave it to natural processes? Deep rooted cover crop? Deeper loosening tine? Plough? A lot will depend on the weather this summer but just wondered what general...

Reports the 970 acre 'Sibleyback farm' on Bodmin has been sold to rewilders....£10 million to turn it into native woodland and bog. Where does this all end?

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF For this month’s topical cereal disease and agronomy feature, CPM reviews insights from AHDB’s re-run Early Bird Survey coupled with added reflections from agronomists and farmers. By Janine Adamson One thing’s for certain – this year...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Achieving resilient disease control relies on many independent factors coming together under the stewardship of growers and agronomists. In the first of BASF’s Real Results Roundtables, CPM hosts an open discussion to understand the...

As above, never grown it before, just wondering if anyone has any experience of growing it on here.

Just goes to show what the war did for our timber as well as food / farm supplies We can learn and heed so much from (recent) history https://www.facebook.com/groups/462211149099296/permalink/803002318353509/

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Agronomist, Richard Owens, has confirmed that continuing wet conditions are hampering cereal growers form getting on with critically important field work. “Some areas were hit that little bit harder with the weather than others. As a rule of thumb...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The latest UK crop update from the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) paints a very downbeat perspective regarding the harvest prospects for 2024/25. The information in the crop update was captured up to Tuesday, March 26, 2024...