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In the old days, you could use Atrazine, but these days, there aren't any pre-ems that are safe in Millet. Stomp kills millet, and various other pre-ems will do the same, so the crop relies on post-em sprays (which are pretty effective). Normally, millet growers will use a mixture of Starane...

Hi - thank you for your interest. We did video the zoom call - if you send your email address to [email protected] I will email a link to the recorded meeting over to you. Best regards Jacqui

Hi Flatliner - In the UK we aim to use the very earliest varieties - Maturity Group 0000 which usually have a CHU requirement around 2250. With those varieties, you usually aim for about 55 plants per square metre (220k per acre). Obviously, your latitude determines the maturity group you...

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The £354 soya meal will be any-origin meal (probably standard GMO Brazilian) The Price for Identity- Preserved Food-grade non-GM beans beans (UK or Canadian Hard IP) is currently around £500 per tonne delivered mainland UK. They are different products with different origins with different...

Soya UK is doing a Zoom presentation this Friday, 19th March at 10.30am. An opportunity for growers to tune in and hear the latest developments with Soya & Millet. This will include a question and answer session. Email [email protected] if you would like the link to attend.

£1 per kg is pretty extreme...... Did you buy a small amount? (55p/kg for the seed and another 45p for delivery maybe?) Seems incredibly high.... Spring triticale seed is around £475 to £550 per tonne right now.... (depends on dressings & delivery costs etc).

Yes - it seems very odd - that they would pay crop entry fees and crop inspection fees, and then forego their interest in the crop immediately after harvest? Especially when you consider that spring triticale has been scarce and sold out these last 2 or 3 seasons. Do you know the actual...

You can feed whole oats and whole lupins to lambs no problem - they digest them OK - and yes, its an excellent feed. As to whether you would grow them as a mixed crop for combining, I'd say its pretty debatable. For wholecrop, yes - lovely mix and you can clamp it or bale it no bother and...

Hi @Wobblebox - The bad news is that there is no seed left at all. It was all gone by November. Partly due to us losing some seed crops, and partly due to a realy high level of interest. I think there's no doubt that the lupins will see a fair resurgence over the next year or two. With...

Been tried, but the "success" was debatable. The soya grew well enough, and managed to break through the biodegradable plastic OK. Also, the plastic helped to stop the pigeons and stopped the seedbeds drying out by sweating plenty of moisture up. The downside was the extra wheelings required...

A lot of spring triticale gets used for wholecrop, or wholecrop mixtures in the North & West of the country. Equally, a lot of it gets used in game-cover mixes etc. Both these markets tend to be quite late markets, and will often run well into April or even May, so in the past we have been...

Hi - I'm afraid we are all sold out of white and blue lupin seed for the Spring 2021 season. If you'd like to have a go for Spring 2022, it'd be best to get in touch September / October time to book seed, as we usually are all sold out of Lupins by Christmas. Cost per acre on Blue Lupin Seed...

Not to my knowledge Nitrams - i don't know of anyone who has tried that. I doubt it would be beneficial though, since lupins don't really need heat to grow (they grow perfectly well in Orkney, or Finland or Iceland - unlike heat-driven crops like Maize or Millet or soya). What is important...

White Lupins are 11% oil, and blues are 6% oil. Given the relatively low inclusion rates, the oil is never an issue. The benefit of heat-treating lupins is marginal, whereas the benefit is greater in peas & beans. This is because the bypass rate of untreated peas & beans is around 15%...