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British National Ploughing Championships & Country Festival
Chatsworth Estate, Glapwell, North East Derbyshire
S44 5QE

8th & 9th October 2022
8.45 am to 5 pm

http://www.ploughmen.co.uk/events/2022-british-national-ploughing-championships

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This amazing event is held in a different part of the country each year.

It’s not just ploughing though! For farmers, there will be an extensive trade stand area with stands from a varied range of agri-business, from tractors to tyres, seeds to fertilisers, finance to tools. And for the farming family it offers a rare glimpse of how farming has changed over the past 300 years – magnificent heavy horses, giant steam engines and many styles of vintage tractors and...

John Deere working on a hill with the Sumo Trio

Positive post-harvest grower reports on Mayflower indicate that it's a low-input high-output variety that will be of significant interest to millers given its high protein levels.

New Group 2 milling wheat Mayflower underlined its credentials as one of the top performing winter wheats following a string of positive post-harvest grower reports.

According to Tom Reynolds of S. Salbstein Limited, a 200ha farm near Folkestone in Kent, his crop of Mayflower produced a specific weight of 82kg/hl with protein levels of 12.8% - well above the 11.3-11.5% that millers would look for from a Group 2 wheat.

He says: “We achieved 11.9t/ha at 13% moisture from the 32ha cut on August 5th. Mayflower did considerably better than our crop of KWS Extase and...

Deep tine cultivating with the Farmet Fantom

Three different modes of action for highly effective grass-weed control. Tackling grass-weeds like no other, herbicides Liberator and Proclus work together in one tank mix with three modes of action to protect your winter wheat and barley yield against black-grass, ryegrass, brome and a host of broad leaf weeds. All with the reassurance of a robust herbicide resistance management strategy.

Potato harvest getting going #harvest2022

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland

John Deere has been busy readying its line-up of self-propelled forage harvesters for next year, with power increases throughout the range and an engine swap at the top of the 9000 series.

In addition to the revamped harvesters there is also a new high capacity pick-up and additional software by which farm managers can communicate with operators in the field.

8000 series harvesters​

The smaller 8100, 8200 and 8300 models are the first to benefit from additional power. The 8100...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland

The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) alongside the Farm Safety Partnership (FSP), has named new farm safety champions and commended the outstanding work on farm safety that has been carried out in the farming community in the last 20 years.

Two of these champions are Malcom Downey, retired principal inspector for the Agri/Food team in HSENI and Harry Sinclair, current chair of the Farm Safety Partnership and former president of the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU).

Improving farm safety is the key aim of HSENI’s and the FSP’s work and...

Hi everyone,
ADAS are working with the NFU and SRUC to guide the development of a new Sustainable Farming Incentive Standard for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This Defra-funded project will help farmers, growers and advisers to combine cultural, biological, physical and chemical tools to manage pests, weeds, and diseases in an environmentally sensitive way.

We are developing an online decision support tool and practical guidance to assist growers in producing IPM plans specific to their cropping system. To do this, we need as many arable, grass, and horticultural growers as possible to get involved now in the development so that when the SFI standard does come out in 2023, it is relevant and useful for all growers.

Participants will be reimbursed for their time on the project...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland

Rural campaigners have expressed disappointment that Oxfordshire councilors failed to debate a motion which could have ended the vegan meals only policy at council events, owing to time constraints.

In March, Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet voted to serve entirely plant-based meals at full council meetings and all civic events. Currently, there are seven meetings of full council each year – meetings for all 63 county councillors.

The call was made despite local farmers protesting outside the county hall.

Conservative councillor Yvonne Constance’s motion read: “This council notes that the leader has...