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A ProCam agronomist has said the key to reliable blight control is to adapt programmes according to weather conditions and using forecasting tools to determine when the threat of blight is at its highest.
The agronomy and crop protection business...
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A British organic fertiliser manufacturer has developed a new fish-based fertiliser which promises to significantly increase microbial life, including bacteria and fungi.
In a series of trials using its Biocore Land product, a fertiliser made by...
I’m thinking of making the move back to spreading fertiliser instead of using liquid. Anybody done it and regretted it?
We can’t put on liquid P & K so have to use a contractor and as we are 36m spread pattern is hit and miss.
We’ve had scorch last year and this year with this year in...
Unsurprisingly our winter wheat is struggling. It has poor root development and has being suffering from manganese deficiency which we don’t normally get. It’s had manganese and NPKS this spring all ready. T0 is approaching and was contemplating some phosphite in as well as PGR and trace...
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With grassweed pressures rumbling on, one way to achieve sufficient control is by taking advantage of sugar beet in the rotation, even if there’s a limited armoury of effective herbicides. CPM finds out more.
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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...
Looks like a window opening up end of week, weekend to get sprayer out.
OSR beginning to flower, have Fungicide,PGR, boron to go on. Have had spray recs for about a month and never got it on. It's had 110kg/N already but normally like to get last application on as flowering starts.
Winter...
As a distraction to the soggy non existent spring drilling programme, I'm looking ahead to the autumn and want to reduce my spring cropping area, currently about 1/3 of the farm thanks to blackgrass. Winter barley for feed isn't really any good for blackgrass control in terms of herbicide...
With the cut off date looming we have managed to spread most of the urea in store however we have a bit left that was destined for sp crops post emergence .We have a field of sp barley to go in and another of failed/drowned wheat to replace ,some has been ploughed and some cultivated earlier...
Victory. Social media and farmer pressure, BFU, etc. we've all come together and pressurised change.
NFU and AHDB originally backed the GFC, but changed their tune after the backlash. Tom Bradshaw and AHDB listened 👍. Thank you.
And Farmers Weekly helped massively with excellent reporting. I...
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Safeguarding yield and quality will be pivotal in what could be a competitive spring barley grain market this harvest, is the message from agronomy experts.
This includes proactively minimising stress on the crop after the wet winter. “Spring barley...
just a reminder to make sure your orders are in and if not your paperwork is in order
Dont want anyone falling foul of the red tractor policing unit as you know they will be clipboards at the ready with eyes on the forecast for lack or rain etc
God help anyone that has a RT Audit coming up in...
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A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...
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An on-farm trial investigating a two-pronged approach to NUE has now concluded. CPM catches up with the team in Darlington to assess the results and understand if it’s possible to reduce reliance on traditional nitrogen.
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Maize is fast growing in popularity with increasing numbers of arable farmers believing it capable of delivering significant production, economic and even environmental benefits. CPM evaluates its potential.
By Rob Jones
With the...
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Seed shortages, mancozeb uncertainty and more resistant blight strains are set to compound the difficulties caused by one of the wettest autumn and winter periods on record. CPM reports.
By Rob Jones
Potato growers are facing more than...
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With soil organic matter levels reaching an all time low in some areas, utilising the benefits of molasses could help growers to start to rebuild these vital stocks. CPM finds out more.
By Charlotte Cunningham
It’s often said that a...
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