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Anyone spread Calcifert with a KRM Bogbale disc spreader, mine's an M2. Charts have never heard of anything weighing 1.36kgs/litre. I'm really after the flow figure to put into the Calibrator Uniq control box but don't mind guessing to get a start. I assume the heavier the fert, the higher the...

Recently came across this photo I took in the winter when I had dug a hole to show a group of visitors. Sorry nothing to show the scale, but it is about two feet deep. I was amazed to see that I have grown about six inches of top soil in 12 years of no-till, but also you can see dark organic...

So nearly every arable farmer in Essex has been ploughing or deep cultivating every day for the past few weeks, but guess where all the seagulls have been. This is my oat stubble that was drilled with a cover crop about three weeks ago. They appeared in the field as soon as I arrived with the...

Some of you may not believe it, but we are now in desert like conditions in the East. I have linseed to drill where the chopped straw has laid all winter without breaking down at all, it looks the same as when it came out of the combine in August. I knew a few weeks ago that there was no way...

I have been growing lucerne for a few years now for Dengie Crop Driers who sell it into the horse feed market. They want to experiment with growing some grasses in with the lucerne to improve the nutritional content of the finished product. On it's own , it is too higher nitrogen for horses and...

@Clive mentioned this in another thread and there has been a bit of a discussion on Twitter which is a pretty useless place to put any complicated information, so I thought I would just show a few results here from tests I had done a few years ago. These are percentages of root lengths...

There is an article in this weeks FW about Tony Reynolds. In it he says he is trialing different cover crop mixes that don't regrow. "The theory is that we can macerate or take a crop for silage and then drill into it without the need to use glyphosate. Glyphosate is a precious chemical and we...

This is my Microbiological Soil Report from January last year. I took a sample from this field because I felt that the soil is working really well now, it drill easily and has good natural structure, still quite a lot of black grass in it though.

Richard Harding asked me to put this up on the Forum. Another good program that he has put together to be held in Berkshire this time, instead of Plumton College this year. Soil and Nutrition Workshop Thursday 18th December 2014 The cost is £35 per person. The workshop is by kind permission...

My agronomist has some good connections with people at KWS who wanted to see if there are any differences in the performance of varieties in a no-till system compared to conventional in which they are normally breed and grown. They tried to pick a few varieties that have different growing...