Recent content by Reg

I was just at the point of applying for SFI with the hope of a 1st March 24 start date. I had applied for IPM4 on parcels which would not receive an insecticide between 1st March 2024 and 1st March 2025. However having seen the webinar from Friday it would appear my insecticide free year should...

How do Spring Oats cope with ryegrass? Not many herbicide options but reasonable competition I presume?

https://www.farminguk.com/news/amp/land-to-be-devalued-for-compulsory-purchase-warns-body_60588.html surely not far apart from Conservative Party policy?

Oh dear. That makes pdm a no go in cereals at least.

Where are pendimethalin prices at the moment. I know it went up steeply in the autumn but has it carried on rising?

Recommended seed rate/ha?

Cold weather makes the problem worse. Using incorrect grade oil makes the problem worse. Usually it will disappear within a couple of minutes. Filter change may help but not necessarily completely cure.

Can Greenlight automatically produce the LERAP for each product?

Foreign currency traders don’t think much of our new PMs attempt at a credible economic policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/21/us-agribusiness-lobbyists-paid-for-trip-by-david-davis. I think this shows his commitment to UK ag

Anyone had problems with some of the tines twisting backwards by an inch or two. It wasn’t till we saw this we noticed that some of the brackets holding the rubber triangles were not completely tight. The trouble is some of the rubber mounts are now a bit deformed which doesn’t help. It hasn’t...

If its an older Sprinter I'm 90% sure I got one from Pan Anglia for around £70 about 2 years ago.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/02/27/british-farmers-fret-about-losing-their-protection-and-their-subsidies

Has anyone seen the new Sabre Tine in the flesh? Does it look as though it will cope any better with chopped straw?