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Welcome to our Biostimulant Supplement, exclusive to Direct Driller magazine. I hope you enjoyed reading our last supplement on Adjuvant Technology and it proves useful as we head into the spring spraying season. In this issue we explore the valuable role of plant biostimulants in helping...

If you want to read the background to the video, you can read all Phil’s Farmer Focus pieces from Direct Driller Magazine here: October 2022 https://directdriller.com/farmer-focus-phil-rowbottom/ April 2023 https://directdriller.com/farmer-focus-phil-rowbottom-2/ October 2023...

Direct Driller Soils Magazine Issue 25 Welcome to Issue 25 of Direct Driller Magazine which includes a supplement on adjuvant technology and features a summary of our Covering Soils event in September (including links to all the video content from the talks). For those that don't get a printed...

You can now read articles on everything discussed at the day and watch all the videos here - https://directdriller.com/issues/covering-soils-1/ Here are links to all the videos: Covering Soils Day – Highlights Covering Soils Event – UK-Anglo American talk Fertiliser Covering Soils Day...

Direct Driller's first tech edition has gone live on the website or you can download a copy of the PDF to read when convenient. A digital only, 100% tech focused issue (with an appropriate title) looking at how regenerative agriculture has change because of technology and how is might change...

If you want to watch all the videos from the day, you can now do this via the playlist from the day: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXPWM4spftcUkNLXbkXGp9swEqqRj7vaG

Covering Soils Day - 21st Sept We ran the first in a series of Direct Driller days around cover crops, SFI options, agronomy decisions and compaction on the 21st September at TWB Farms in Staffordshire. It was a great day, with great local food provided by Untamed Grill. For all those who...

Morning all - the latest issue of Direct Driller magazine contains a combine technology section, that goes into an Innovate UK on-farm project aiming to introduce new technology, with peices from New Holland and Fendt on some of their new developments, plus a history tour of how tech has changed...

Direct Driller Issue 23 is loaded up on to the website and in print, so you will be receiving a hard copy soon enough (if you are registered for one). You can read all the article here: https://directdriller.com/direct-driller-issue-23-contents/ And download the PDF if you prefer to read it...

Inside this issue: Direct Driller Magazine: Issue 22 Contents Direct Driller Issue 22 – Introduction Agricultural Revolutions Featured Farmer – Andy Cato How much do you understand your weather forecast? The myths around carbon standards Replaceable coulter tip tines reduce metal wastage and so...

Found In Issue 20: Issue 20 Inside this issue: What’s in a Name? Featured Farmer – Harry Heath The curious case of disappearing nitrogen How Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is delivering alternative farm funding Farmer Focus – Rob Raven From the Sea to the Soil Sap analysis proving valuable for...

Harvest 2022 arrived fast and was completed without a pause. The wheats yielded 8.8t/ha, with only applied 155kg/ha bagged N applied, which was 16% less than 14yr average. 85% of this was direct drilled and we are seeing soil structure continue to improve. The oilseed rape yielded 3.3t/ha, with...

Crop and carbon: Optimising the double yield Written by Thomas Gent It’s no secret that employing regenerative farming techniques – minimal soil disturbance, the use of cover crops and organic manures, applying carbon-rich fertilisers – both reduce the amount of farm-generated greenhouse gas...

Direct Driller Magazine Issue 19 Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Reading More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Featured...

A big thank you to the 1,850 people who took part in Earthworm Watch! Victoria Burton, postgraduate researcher and lead scientist has been busy analysing the results of two years of data collection. Read on to hear what you have helped us find out about earthworms in urban areas. What types of...

Written by Jeff Claydon Establishing winter wheat on the Claydon farm during October with the new 6m Claydon Evolution 6 mounted drill. Despite a stop-start harvest and the very changeable weather which followed, Suffolk farmer Jeff Claydon was able to establish all the planned area of...

Written by Justin Platt I was very fortunate to grow up on a farm in the beautiful Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. With no real agricultural experience to speak of, my father left the family printing business in the late 1950s and established us on 500 acres of farmland, a small fry...

Berwickshire farmer Neil White calls for clarity and equity in their baseline carbon audit on his farm after six years of No-till Harvest 2021 was, in the end, better than expected. The crops came out of the wet cold spring looking respectable, but then continually improved to culminate in...

Tis the time of year to reflect on progress, thing you’ change and things you’ll keep just as they are. In this spirt, its time to review progress at AHDB’s Strategic Farms and share some results with you. From the 15 of November, we ran Strategic Farm week with four distinct themes. Can...

With so much data captured on farm, making it useful can be like unlocking Pandora’s box. Researchers from Rothamsted Research – Kirsty Hassall, Alice Milne and Andy Whitmore – share how yield and satellite data can help with precision management in potato crops. Modern technology allows...