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OSR new season: A recipe for success
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF In a bid to retain valuable oilseed rape within rotations, growers and agronomists are devising multi-faceted ‘recipes’ to help improve the establishment success rate of the crop. CPM finds out more. By Janine Adamson Much like the...- CPM RSS
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- agrii agronomist agronomists animal feed beans blackgrass break crops cabbage calcium cereals csfb cultivations drilling drone establishment fertiliser flea flea beetle foliar gps grassweed management nutrients nutrition oilseed oilseed rape organic organic matter osr pests pgr rapeseed slug slugs spring beans stubble technology varieties variety vigour weather
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Flea beetle
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Early drilled wheat: Getting ahead
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With the recent washout autumn proving a stark reminder of the volatilities of Mother Nature, some growers will be conscious to drill winter cereals as early as realistically viable, to avoid missing out altogether. CPM speaks to experts...- CPM RSS
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- agronomist ahdb blackgrass cereals development disease disease resistance drilling early drilling fertility fungicide fungicides grassweed harvest limagrain management market performance pgr position recommended list second wheat security seed septoria typhoon varieties variety weather wheat winter wheat yielding yields
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Sugar beet survey: Smart sugar beet
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With the development of the Conviso Smart system offering a lifeline to sugar beet growers struggling to grow the break crop, CPM explores how it can be best deployed on farm. By Charlotte Cunningham Although sugar beet growers have...- CPM RSS
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- agronomist application bayer beet break crop development disease disease resistance drift drilling genetics grassweed groundsel herbicide ipm lifeline limagrain management nematode performance powdery mildew recommended list residual roots rust security seed speedwell sprayer technology varieties variety weed control
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Real Results Roundtable: Battling brome
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Brome is proving an increasingly difficult weed to control with populations of all species reportedly on the rise. CPM brings together stakeholders from across the industry to discuss, as part of this month’s Real Results Roundtable. By...- CPM RSS
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- agronomist agronomy atlantis basf beans blackgrass brome cattle cultivate cultivation development direct drilling drilling flufenacet grass grassweed harvest herbal herbicide luximo management market num3 oats oilseed oilseed rape organic organic matter peas performance ploughing pre-em prosulfocarb rye ryegrass security seed sfi spring beans stubble testing weather wheat wild oats winter wheat
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Blatant profiteering by SAC consulting
Future Scottish Farm subsidy payments will require that we, quite rightly, sample and analyse our soil The SAC consulting have therefore taken upon themselves to double their fee to provide an analysis Blatant profiteering. barstewards Food has become a luxury that fewer and fewer farmers can...- DrDunc
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- agronomist analysis carbon cattle gps health peat reseed savings soil testing testing
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Genetic diversity helps overcome challenging seasons
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine With the past two seasons illustrating the value of spreading risk, opting for crop varieties with different parentage may pay dividends, is the message from the trade. According to Andrew Bourne from T Denne and Sons, this season has been the worst...- CPM RSS
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- agronomist disease disease resistance drilling early drilling establishment genetic management recommended list rust seed septoria varieties variety vigour wheat winter wheat yellow rust yielding yields
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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Oliver Walston has passed
Sad to here liked his comments and attitude- roscoe erf
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- agronomist beet brother cattle cereals chickens children compaction cows dairy death drought establishment family farmdeals fendt glyphosate grass harvest health hedge insecticides market monsanto pesticides pickup pneumonia rapeseed recommended list roots sandy seed sheep slurry tillage variety wheat worms yields
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Selling Weed Killer
Aye-up, Some of you may know we recently took over a retail business selling everything from feeds to bedding to coal and general rural supplies. We are regularly asked if we sell weed killers, but nobody seems to want to buy the ready to use Roundup squirty stuff we stock, and I can’t say I...- Cab-over Pete
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- agronomist application bedding desiccation environmental fire glyphosate gold grass health horticulture hse market mcpa online operator paddock pesticide pesticides renewal roundup savings sprayer storage testing
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Yields 2024
With harvest upon us I wonder what yields will be like this season.Our first patches of OSR were desiccated on July 5th so probably won't start until 26th.Very difficult to predict the yield but not expecting too much.Wheat was quite diseased so I expect yield to be well down too.Spring Oats,for...- texelburger
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- agronomist agronomists agronomy ahdb ahl2 aphids application baling bazooka beans beef beet beowulf billericay blackgrass boom break crop brother bydv caravelle carbon carrots cattle cereals children claydon combi compaction cover crop cover crops cows csfb cultivate cultivating cultivation cultivator cyber dairy defra diablo diesel direct drilling disc disease drainage dressing drilling drills drought establishment family fendt fertiliser financial flea flea beetle flooding foliar forage forecast fuel fungicide futures gate gleam glyphosate grain store grass grass leys grassland grazing handling harrow harvest harvesting hedge herbal herbicide horsch insecticide laureate learning legumes liberator lick maize malting market markets mayweed milk nitrogen num3 oats oilseed oilseed rape organic osr parts pdm pgr plough ploughing position potato pre-em premium propino rainfall ramularia round bales roundup rpa rust sandy second wheat seed seedbeds septoria sfi sheep silage slug slugs soh1 soil sampling solar soybeans sprayer spring beans storage storm stubble sustainable farming take-all testing tillage trading trailed sprayer trinity triticale urea varieties variety weather weaving weed control weighbridge wheat winter wheat yielding yields
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- Forum: Cropping
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Glysophate pack size
Can you buy glysophate in 200 litre drums or in an ibc? -
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Liquid fertiliser
Hi all, just wondering I've heard some of you mention on previous threads about melting granular urea in water to make a spray able product? My fodder beet needs spraying for weeds and needs some nitrogen, I was wondering about asking my sprayer man to do the fert as well? Is it possible, and...- Jdunn55
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- agrii agronomist agronomy beet carbon fertiliser fodder fodder beet foliar grass herbicide liquid fertiliser maize nitrogen seed sprayer stress urea weed control
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- Forum: Dairy Farming
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IPM3 and Winter Oats
My SFI agreement includes IPM3 (companion crop, not cover crop) for fields I intended to put into winter rape. I'm now going to plant winter oats instead, which are still eligible for a companion crop. To retain nutrients and create a mulch as RPA says. Any experience or suggestions for species...- Worcspete
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- agronomist agronomy beans cereals cover crop drilling fertiliser harvest herbicide ipm3 nutrients oats rpa sfi wheat
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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Farmer survey on farm assurance.
I found this in the small print of an AHDB email...- Humble Village Farmer
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- agronomist agronomists agronomy ahdb bank account beef beet blackgrass boots carbon cattle cereals children cover crops cpd dairy death defra development disease drainage environment agency environmental establishment ewes fcn feed wheat financial fire flock forecast fuel fungicides gate gatekeeper gold grass grassland harvest harvesting haulage health horticulture insurance lambs learning levy malting management market markets mart milk nitrogen nozzle nozzles nroso oilseed oilseed rape online organic osr paddock parasite parasites peas pesticide pesticides pig platform position potato potatoes poultry premium red tractor registration roots rust security self propelled septoria sfi sheep slurry software solar sprayer storage stress sustainability technology testing trading training urea varieties variety weather wheat yellow rust
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Advice: Using a dock herbicide on red clover swards
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has granted two temporary herbicide licences for dock control purposes in newly established red clover swards. The period of authorisation is from June 15 to October 15. However, the reality...- Agriland RSS
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- agronomist dairy docks fat hen first cut fumitory grassland herbicide seed seedling silage yields
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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American/Canadian milling wheat varieties
We import these wheats to add to the grist I believe. What are they? Are they agronomically ok? How hard is it to import seed? Just interested in other countries crops that we import and use over our own really. -
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Graham winter wheat
How much disease does everyone have present in this variety at this stage? Mine seems to have lost all its lower leaves leaving just the flag leaf and the one below it and these two also have disease present. Just wondering if this is normal it's had three fungicides now.- Slant78
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- agronomist agronomy ahdb basf brown rust bydv cereals cultivations disease establishment fertility folpet fungicide fungicides gleam harvest inatreq online osr rainfall resilient revysol rust septoria solatenol sprayer t0 t1 t2 t3 teb training varieties variety weather wheat yellow rust yielding yields
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- Forum: Cropping
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Resistant ryegrass
So I've got one field that is getting terrible for ryegrass. Planted maize this time thinking we could easily control it, wrong! Admittedly timing of Samson at full rate may have been a little late but I can't believe how it has come back in the last week. The maize itself seems OK at the moment...- Tompkins
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- adjuvant agronomist application atlantis axial axial pro beans beet blackgrass broadway star cereals disc drilling fmc glyphosate grass grass weed harvest herbicide liberator luximo maize nicosulfuron osr plough registration rye ryegrass seed sfi sheepdog silage treated seed variety weather wheat winter wheat
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- Forum: Cropping
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Tine drill - wide & slow?
I'm currently looking at tine drill options as our strip till system is making our blackgrass problems worse - to the point that blackgrass levels are dictating cropping & cultivation policy. What I need is a tine drill that can cope with brashy stone, and be capable of sowing into unmoved...- Brisel
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- 750a agrii agronomist ahdb amazone application avatar baling beans black-grass blackgrass bourgault claydon combi compaction coulter coulters cover crop cover crops cultivate cultivation cultivator direct drill disc drainage drilling drills drone establishment fertiliser front linkage glyphosate grass groundswell harrow harvest hedge horsch insecticides kuhn maize management market mounted mzuri oats osr parts plough ploughing pre-em rainfall rapid sandy seed seedbeds seeding self propelled sfi sprinter stubble t7 technology tillage topdown vaderstad weather weaving wheat yields
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- Forum: Regen Ag and No-till Machinery
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Derogation for later establishment of spring sown options eg ab9?
Did I dream this? I was sure that following the wet spring the end of may timeline had been increased but I can't find any links to it. Can someone confirm or deny with a link if possible? Many thanks- Flat 10
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- ab8 agronomist ahl2 forecast harvest management osr seed sheep weather
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
