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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The British Society of Soil Science highlights both the benefits of farming for soil carbon, but also its limitations to mitigate climate change
Written by Mike Abram
A new Science Note produced by the British Society of Soil Science suggests farmers should be encouraged and rewarded for...
November 2021
I was not sorry to see the end of harvest 2021. A combination of low yielding OSR, a large acreage of Firefly wheat that broke down to Septoria, disappointing Extase yields and spring barley that was flattened by August rains meant that it was not a vintage year for us.
Luckily...
Both cover crops and low-disturbance drilling are often seen as an easy way to improve soil health and performance while also offering an opportunity to cut fixed costs. Where the transition is managed well, it can be very worthwhile but in other cases, the journey to drilling nirvana can be a...
The Soil Farmer of the Year competition has been running since 2015, providing a platform for individuals and businesses to demonstrate how soil management can build environmental and economic resilience. The competition aims to recognise, promote and champion farmers who are passionate about...
December 2021
The good the bad and the ugly!
As I sit here on the 30th November furiously tapping away to get this written for tomorrows deadline I reflect on what has happened since I last wrote.
My last piece mentioned how well the crops looked before harvest! How things have changed in...
Written by James Warne from Soil First Farming
A word of warning to all of you who buy bulk lime products. There appears to be nobody in the supply chain fighting your corner to ensure the quality of the lime you buy meets the legal requirements as laid down in the Fertiliser Regulations...
Written by Tony Gent
With over 60 years of farming, I have seen and been involved with so many changes, as a lad from working with horses and leaving school at 15 to working on my father’s smallholding with only 50 acres and a mix of cropping. The farm began to mechanise and expand, so did my...
Farmer Focus - December 2021
Harvest has come and gone. Yields were good but could have been better had the growing season not been so variable. We had trimmed our Nitrogen rates to 160 Kg/N/Ha for wheat and OSR, but huge swings of yields within the fields told me that the yield had not been...
The Seed Microbiome
Written by Joel Williams
The seed microbiome plays an important role in the formation of early root and shoot microbial communities.
In the last article we introduced the various habitats that exist on and within plant tissues where a range of microbes coexist with plants...
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