Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has confirmed that winter wheat crops are in a very poor state across England, Scotland and Wales.
Courtesy of its most recent crop update, the organisation pointed out that, nationally, the...
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Whats everyone elses position. The wheats looking really hungry now and its so wet wondering whether just go and make a mess or be patient?! Must be loosing yield surely.
Did I hear right!!!? Millions coming our way to improve our IT etc so that we have less reliance on foreign workers? and better outlets for food we can't sell? Apart from installing robots, I can't see, on the face of it, what impact this would have on the dairy industry. What about other sectors?
Hi Everyone,
I am doing a research project for my 3rd year dissertation at the Royal Agricultural University on the viability of restoring and improving ponds/ small water bodies. The origin of my project is a pond management plan conducted by Severn Trent in 2020 on a pond at our family farm...
The above named was on the radio 4 today program this morning to discuss biological net gain in relation to new housing developments.
At best this is smoke and mirrors, at worst it is deceiving and lying to the public.
What was even worse though, was that he couldn't resist having a pop at...
Hi everyone, looking for a bit of advice.
I'm not a farmer, I live in a house that shares a border with a field which we purchased in Aug 22.
It turns out that the field floods during the winter in the corner closest to our house and looking back at historical aerial images on Google maps and...
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The risks of growing specialty crops like potatoes are on the rise and the mitigations available are decreasing, meaning tools to help growers maintain yield and marketability of crops are vital. CPM finds out how a Scottish grower is...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has published the provisional results from it’s ‘Early Bird’ planting survey for autumn 2023.
Autumn drilling conditions have been poor in many parts of the UK in later weeks of the planting...
Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?
Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April?
Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-farms-world-declining.html
while not news to us, it does throw out some interesting observation's.
the remark, small farms farm 25% of the land, but produce 30% of the food was telling.
do you actually think there is any way to change the trend? if yes what?
Im sure alot of people have seen the phenomenon when spraying, you kill weeds them more grow next year etc, ive seen it a bunch but never understood why, im guessing now its becuase them chemical kills the microbes and the only thing that will grow is weeds?
Ive sprayed gras out on drains with...
How are people getting on now we are paying for a dry Jan/Feb?
Spring barley drilled 2 weeks ago, not through yet. Drilled this first as on heavy ground which we managed to muck in Feb but no ploughing and it went in well.
Some spring beans drilled 10 days ago and had another go this afternoon...
Well I guess it’s time to start another annual thread about how peoples crops are looking at the start of the year.
All pics taken today.
Generally I’m pretty happy at present other than one but of rape that looks a bit thin in places thanks mainly to pheasants🙄
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Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has just released a crop planting update for the UK, referencing winter wheat, winter barley and winter oilseed rape (OSR).
At the end of November, 87% of the UK’s winter wheat crop was in...
We are in very dry part in missing all the rain that seems to be going round us.When is it to late to plant a HALF TURNIP /HALF RAPE mix.We are in Oxfordshrie?
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