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Is the answer is to tow some sort of bale accumulator and drop them all on the headlands? May be an expensive investment but could help facilitate what you are trying to do.

The following is an extract from a Kansas State Extension Bulletin. It’s referring to wheat drilling but it explains the principles very well. “The problem with placing urea-containing fertilizer with the seed is that urea is initially converted to ammonia and may be toxic to plant roots if the...

Its the fact that the bubble up auger also folds in the tank. You can fill the tank to below the fold point and empty it OK. The problems start when you lift the lids and the bubble up auger is pushing into grain in the tank. The same applies when closing them.

Does the condensed operations report in Gatekeeper not give you what you need ?

I think it already has produced a useful data set. Unfortunately the YEN business model doesn’t appear to be one of giving this information back to it’s (paying) contributors.

Why not subsidise farm safety ? Cost is an issue in a marginal business.

It’s worth checking as it can help diagnose what’s going on.

Is the arrow on the screen pointing straight ahead as you go down the field or is it crabbing sideways?

I completely agree that OSR is the source of the slug problem. However I can’t get excited about dropping it for a spring crop with half the gross margin (or less). It is also difficult to keep pulses far enough apart without it.

I’ve got an XCN 2050 with a DCM300 modem and am looking to change it for a radio if you were interested in doing something.

Do you already have radios on the XCN and FM750s ?

Much as our soil conditions would allow us to do it - unfortunately the slugs won’t. How effective is multiple stubble raking post osr pre wheat drilling in managing slug populations or is this just wishful thinking ?

As far as food labelling this is technically OK (unbelievably). The reason being it is ‘British’ if the last major process takes place here. Only applies to processed food. So if for example it is Danish pig meat cured here it can be labelled as British bacon. How ridiculous is that ? That is...

This all needs tying together with what is on the packaging on the supermarket shelves. We need to reclaim that message as it is this part that has been undermined. British produce should have a union jack on it. Not the stuff produced abroad and processed here that somehow miraculously changes...

It’s a great idea. I think this could also be the future for a lot of farm machinery.

You will need to have good eyesight !

Any tips on Pea and bean weavil control in spring beans? Product choice, rate, water volumes, time of spraying ?? Do any make any difference? Have got reasonable, rolled seedbeds and some fields are getting hit hard despite having been sprayed. Others have little damage. They are what they are...

Thanks, I’ll have a look for it.

The same could be said of most agchem.

High - in a GM situation. GM maize traits produce a protein in the plant that kills various insect pests. The technology is there to do it...