barley

Been ditching today finding outfalls as the outfall is a bit low in the ditch really but struggled with fall a bit hence depth. Anyway I’ve been thinking the field is a bit wet in one quarter roughly so wanted to make sure the outfalls are running but when I found it I found it running very...

Any one else noticed the Crows seem to be building nests lower this year ? Old tales were its a sign of a bad summer

So historically spring barley is direct drilled here into a cover crop established with a cultivator in the autumn and sprayed off late February. Records show our best yields come from a crop planted late February early March with later planted crops suffering in both reduced yield and higher N...

Got a 20 acre field of WW destined for the whole crop pit that is a write off. We can not grow a reliable crop of maize. (Tried for 3 years. got 1 good crop & 2 average ones ) Not sure ground is going to dry soon enough to get spring barley in. Still an option Any other options to consider...

Downloaded SFI Hefer and have a strip of SHINE feature running through 5 parcels. From what I’ve read it seems this means I can’t enter the whole parcel into SAM3 and I cannot just subtract it from each parcel - is this correct?

Too many deer in East Anglia justifies re-introduction of lynx and wolves .......... BBC report on floods on Somerset Levels that may make farming impossible amplified by Goldsmith to become as iconic as the Camargue in France : Wolves thriving across Western Europe, time to bring them...

like the title says is axial hard on winter barley? wondering if it slows it down or causes phyto like dff once i sprayed puma on a section and it killed the barley completely roundup styles lol

If the wet weather we have experienced for the last nine months was to be the "normal" I think I would have to pack in. It's just too miserable and hard work! Hopefully it's a one off season.

Had 2 yearling in a row, pedigree Texels, mother the lambs (both twins) but won’t let them feed. I have had one in an adopter for the last 3 days (out in the night) doesn’t flinch when they feed. As soon as they are out, won’t let them. Any advice? I know 2 doesn’t sound many but we don’t have...

Got some Skyfall seed wheat left, but unsure how late I dare sow? Cambs/Norfolk. Anyone had any previous experience drilling it this late?

Starting a new thread because the other one has got too long to find any information within it. So this AHL2 option in SFI looks ok initially but not so sure when you dig deeper. The aim is copied below and in the ‘how to do it’ section it says ‘It’s up to you how you complete this action, as...

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10th of March , next 10 days is shite , turning in to the year of shiteness , El Nino can fo .