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Mice and rats - mainly winter, poison put down Sparrows - all year round, put planks along the roof apex to stop insulation being pulled out Swallows - nice to see flying in and out, but they don't half cr*p over everything Spiders - find lots of webs when looking for tools that only get used...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) is confirming that 202220/23 winter barley yield results are now available from four sites. These comprise three fungicide-treated and one untreated trials at locations in Devon, Lincolnshire...

Download PDF From grassweed suppression to improved NUE to early entry for oilseed rape to flexible end use, hybrid barley has cemented its value to growers over the past two decades. CPM discovers how the crop offers both resilience and yield stability. By Lucy de la Pasture By its very...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Stress is arguably the single biggest risk factor for any barley crop. CPM attended a BASF roundtable to discover why preventing stress in the crop is important and how this can be done while facing numerous challenges. By Melanie...

Do you have a strategy? Are you voicing your concerns Are new representative groups needed, I would argue the legacy one we have now are useless. see pic from newspaper in Australia as an example of govts giving into the left and masses for votes. Ant…

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is reporting a series of generally disappointing results from its 2021/2022 Recommended List (RL) winter barley trials. The average yield of the control varieties in the treated trials was...

Morning all Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England. I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...

Are you lucky in raffles or competitions? Couple of bottles of wine at a village show & 4 numbers on the lottery (got me £64)

Written by Charlotte Cunningham Testing of more than 300 samples of over-yeared hybrid barley seed, that wasn’t drilled last autumn, has shown high levels of germination have been retained – averaging 96% across all samples. Charlotte Cunningham reports. The free tests, carried out by Syngenta...

Any estimates of when Winter Barley will kick off..

Well it seems big ben is not going to bong so what if anything are you going to do to mark the occasion ? I shall probably just go to bed around 10 go to sleep and see what the morning brings :sleep:

anyone know any buyers of sunflowers for oil or birdfood? anyone grown any? is sclerotinia a problem if OSR in rotation?

So I’d like to maybe get into a few NC Cheviots folks...only thing is they are new to me and don’t really know the intricacies of the breed to be honest. Can someone explain the different types to me please .ie. difference between hill and park types etc. I’d cross a few with a BFL for the...

Looking for winter feed barley variety that will happily drill into October and still yield grain rather than straw which has been my experience to the past.

Been to Birmingham today. Woah there's some flat wheat. Before I get excited for a new variety, would anyone care to comment on which of their wheat is on the way down? Out of ours, siskin after grass is going to need scraping up, and also a few patches of gravity. Gravity is not coming back...

That title will put a lot of farmers off from reading this thread, but I've stuck it in the Holistic section for good reason. No-tillers are often accused of having a religious zeal (and a strangely attired priesthood), and this is perhaps an extension of that accusation. It came to me after...

Spend the last 4 days emptying crap out of one of the lambing sheds, don't know why I save half of it:scratchhead:. Desided to bring 300 home and house um a month early, not due till end of Feb but ground that wet, no where dry to feed and could look better and I don't want them to lose flesh...