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To all those involved in the Sugar Beet industry, I would appreciate approximately 15 minutes of your time to answer the below survey for my dissertation project titled: ‘Does sugar beet fit into a regenerative agricultural future with a focus on striving for net-zero?’. If you have any further...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland A challenged faced by all dairy cows after calving is negative energy balance (NEB), where energy demands are not being met by intakes. Although turning cows out to spring grass is important in a grass-based grazing dairy system, it can create a...

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/sack-the-board-if-you-sack-me-says-red-tractor-boss Can't say I disagree with him on that, fire the lot of them... Get some people in that care about the farmers they are supposed to be working for, not the supermarkets which they have decided to work for instead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68215777 I can think of two sprayer operators who got to early 60s but no longer with us, both with chemical related body conditions, is this a national wide scandal?

Running 600 ewes on 550ac all over the place without a tractor. Is it time to take the plunge and invest in a tractor? Hay/ haylage taken out in the pick up and trailer handball into feeders. Fodder beet fed by hand about a ton a day at the moment. Mucking out of lambing shed by hand. Able to...

currently running 600 ewes on about 550ac of ground spread all over place without a tractor. Haylage bales fed by taking them out with the pickup and hand-ball into feeders . Fodder beet fed by hand about a ton a day at the moment. Able to borrow a tractor for topping in the summer. And all hay...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF One way to brighten up the dreary month of January, as it turns out, is to be surrounded by endless amounts of shiny new machinery, something LAMMA 24 had in abundance. CPM reports on some of the latest launches and UK debuts from the...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF British Sugar has started a shake-up of how the sugar beet campaign is run through a new project – the Field-to-Factory Partnership. CPM learns how the company is seeking to make harvesting and delivery of the crop more efficient and...

What are people using to spray sugar beet, currently I am using yellow flat fan @ 3 to 4 bar pressure 120 - 130 l per hectre. Is there anything better in peoples opinion?

This survey is for my dissertation, please fill out to aid research. https://rau.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/lydia-dissertation-survey

I've done a quick search on here and not found anything on this- Last year we had quite a few prolapses. I recall that this can be linked to low calcium. we home-mix barley for them, so I wondered if I could chuck a bit of calcium into the mix- if so, what sort? Can a high calcium diet do a...

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories

With the DEFRA payments for not growing crops being a better risk-reward than growing crops. Should we seek to get EVERY ARABLE FARMER to declare they are going 100% into "Herbal Lays" etc. and 0% into combinable crops. (Maybe 0% feed crops, as I know many farmers are a bit workaholic) We could...

Curious to see where others have fixed feed for autumn 24-spring 25. we’ve not covered anything yet and suspect wheat can’t get any lower. Don’t want to have my pants pulled down

Just on finalising a spec on new Lemken plough, running W52 solid mouldboards on present ploughs. Happy with W52’s solid boards just never owned a slatted plough, wondering if missing out??? Half of ploughing done summer/winter 8-10inch deep for winter cereals and sugar beet, other half in...

Fodder beet available near Kidderminster artic access £30pt ex farm

What track width are people finding the best when spraying cereals and maize when leaving them set all season? Maize drilled at 75cm, cereals are usually on 72 but I can alter that easy enough by swapping a few pipes. Also grow beet but I'm less worried about that as I top dress it with a...

I have some sheep house for lambing later in month , been in 3 weeks now as was wet ground . Been doing grand getting sheep rolls good new grass haylage & access to high energy licks . This morning at feeding 2 holding back , one lying down not flat out other standing hanging both ears ...

How late have people been drilling skyfall in the spring. How many seeds m2 do you put down. TIA