atlantis

Somewhere in the mists of my science education the only living things which absorb CO2 are plants. Never mind the 8 billion humans who exhale CO2, my cows and sheep are the main problem so we all need to eat less meat to save the planet. After all it is a ( slow-burning) emergency! Meanwhile...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Corteva has recently issued detailed best practice application advice for Inatreq-containing fungicides for the coming season after worrying problems were reported by spray operators in 2022, its first season of use. But will farmers...

I am wondering aloud. In order to protect the efficacy of Broadway Star and use it less often than twice in three years or every other year what would be the next best spring herbicide to use? There will be wild oats and brome mainly as well as broadleaves. Would you use Broadway Star again...

I inherited a trailed Horsch sprayer last year, its currently got 035 and 05 AI nozzles on it. it does have the 25cm spacing also but find when we have used that it is very liable to block the filter etc. it needs a new nozzles, my other sprayer I run a set of flat fans and a set of 035's...

Well I guess it’s time to start another annual thread about how peoples crops are looking at the start of the year. All pics taken today. Generally I’m pretty happy at present other than one but of rape that looks a bit thin in places thanks mainly to pheasants🙄 Wheats Skyfall Two year...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A longer than usual period between harvest and drilling could encourage earlier drilling. CPM meets a grower keen to hold off. By Mike Abram It’s the time of year Lincolnshire farmer Daniel King finds perhaps least enjoyable – where the...

We have done most of our spraying with billericay bubble jets @100 ltrs /ha as it suited field size but we have just changed to a bigger sprayer with 5 way rotating nozzle holders but with only one set of nozzles fitted What nozzles would you recommend and what rates are you using

What level of percentage control does something like a disc get on chitted stubbles? we’ve got some grass weed fields that have greened up nicely but we won’t drill till mid October onwards so do I glyphosate now and then again pre drilling or do we disc now to kill the growth (does it though...

So below is a silage aftermath that had all gone to seed after the drought so we cut and baled it. I'm just abit concerned that there appears to be quite a few residual grass seeds left over. The plan would be to direct drill winter wheat into this stubble after it has been burnt off with...

Just read that Charlie Flindt is effectively surrendering his tenancy of his NT farm and it will be taken back for tree planting and rewilding with a relatively small area planted with grass with him probably becoming the Park keeper. Having seen other farms owned by the NT being left to rack...

Hi, Really could do with trying to get a bit more old tired grassland reseeded next year. I toyed with idea of dd forage rape this summer but been a bit tight on grass and don't really have much use for forage rape/ turnips etc. Do you think I could risk reseeding it with Italian eye grass in...

Would winter barley do okay on heavy clay ground ? Was re claimed hill ground years ago.

Am i right in thinking Sterile Brome seed needs a light cultivation/stale seedbed to chit but Great Brome and Soft Brome need to lie on the surface undisturbed ? I have some wheat stubbles that had brome in the crop and i want a good chit before i sow barley. The straw is baled and i was going...

Written by cpm from CPM Magazine Download PDF More than two decades of blackgrass trials at Agrii’s Stow Longa research centre suggest that only by taking a fully integrated approach will growers succeed in tackling this problem weed. We should never rest on our laurels as we did with Atlantis...

Written by cpm from CPM Magazine Download PDF More than two decades of blackgrass trials at Agrii’s Stow Longa research centre suggest that only by taking a fully integrated approach will growers succeed in tackling this problem weed. We should never rest on our laurels as we did with Atlantis...

A closer look at a seasoned no-till system. A Seasoned No-Till System Tony Reynolds farms Thurlby Grange Farms, a 243 hectare arable enterprise on peat fen soils and clay loams near Bourne, Lincolnshire. Concerned about the damage to the soil caused by traditional cultivations, Tony began...

Don't normally do it but this year they're talking nearly £600 for C2 , bugger that What's your plan ?

Looking to start using Avadex again in the autumn. Sourced an applicator. Haven’t used it for a long what are peoples results like?

https://www.basf.com/global/en/media/news-releases/2020/06/p-20-168.html

I know the basics of pre em herbicides, a fine firm moist seed bed & don't disturb it afterwards. But how does it actually kill the weed. Does the weed germinate hit the pre em layer & die? or Does the weed die as it germinates? or is the seed discouraged from germinating & may even remain...