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I think with empty cupboard looming, seed short or massive and counts down, new crops will be dug at low weights as demand will be high and less planted early and then the general bloody hard work you all put in to get them in and up last year will mean where normally after a good price year the...

Been trying to find out myself because it really screws the market when 2million tonne of home production isn’t utilised and on top of that 1.2 million tonne of extra feed as a byproduct of the import usage lands on the feed market too, 3.2 million tonne to find a home for or around 15% of...

Well could you chop the part with the eyes off and sell the other bit too a chip shop, all joking aside might be worth asking Cygnet if they have any Elland seed lurking around as a grower for chippy’s, seems to be a worthy variety to try!

Off topic, heard someone ordered their usual spring barley seed order in Sept’ for 400 acre through the malting contract merchant as they had done for many years and contract of sale turned up just before Xmas with a price of £800/tonne, order cancelled as actual malting contract had not been...

So will they come split graded to help with planting, most years, if I remember was 35/55 as standard grade. might be worth asking if they have any new varieties kicking around to do commercial tests on as an expert chipper potato grower!

Tops worth more than seed?

Any alternatives offered? Could widen the spacing or cutting of largest tubers in the sample be options, do they give you tuber counts like TGW in cereals or is that a diy job?

I always remember a talk by Ben Gill, ex NFU, must of been 30 years ago and he said about the soils he had seen over there and ukraine and he said if they get their act together and have yields like Western Europe the world will be awash with grain.

I know I read somewhere that before Putin invaded that the Ukraine used to export the vast majority of its grain in the harvest to Christmas period, now with no avilalability at ports this can’t be done so it’s whatever capacity at whatever time so if they are managing to get a whole seasons...

I follow Josh Linville on Twitter and NOLA urea has gone up over the last few weeks and there tends to be an 8 week delay to it affecting prices here though he also states gas in Europe is also cheap so AN might remain at current prices and be cheaper for new season effectively probably making...

Had undersown spring cereal as an option when in ELS/HLS and it was the harvesting of it that was the biggest headache of the whole scheme fortunately I have a neighbour with a stripper header which made the job so much easier.

£28 for 8’s cauliflower I saw the other day, but not much demand at that price, not looked to see what they are in the supermarkets tbh.

What it needs is a type of combo option so we have the multi species winter cover then into the ahl2 from spring to spring then a spring to 15th October summer annual nectar and pollen mix so stuff like borage, phecilia, linseed, fodder radish, mustard, it’s this 3rd part we a missing to get you...

Mission was a mid 80’s variety, was a miller, I remember cutting a field with a Dominator 85 for our contractor as they had a Dominator 106 on demo which was a 108 inside so needed another driver 1985 it was another wet year, hell of a job getting spuds picked but then it was dry from mid...

Barley sown 3 weeks ago is up in the drill, sat on a big slab of limestone but I was surprised how well it ploughed and drilled, was back to slop a week ago but was well rooted and chitted and is even coming through nicely in the corners where there is the odd puddle today after last nights top...

If you go on James Mortimer seeds website and click on there catalogue’23 there is a handy page with all varieties latest sowing dates.

NOLA urea barges down to $300 today, yara shutting Italian nitrogen plant due to economic reasons supplies 600,000 of ammonia and the same of urea per year.

A very dry Jul/Aug or Apr/May could see neither outcome achieved. having just over a year ago come out of ELS/HLS, looked at mid tier and seen how prescriped it is SFI if very fluffy with dates and actual things you need to do, I always kept my pollen and nectar old mix plot for the year that a...

Was at a frontier meeting on Monday night and they showed a graph of spring seed sales for the last few years and the 2019/20 winter seed sales were high each week but never topped 500 ton for any one week, last week they took 4000 ton of orders in the one week, less seed crops, and not good...

A wise local used to say “fill it up you’ll sell more”