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  1. CHAPs News

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
  2. K

    New parents

    How many husbands that own their own farm didn’t spend the first two weeks with their wives after the child was born??
  3. Agriland RSS

    Man fined £2,400 for illegal waste dumping in London

    Written by William Kellett from Agriland The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a man who was fined £2,400 and ordered to pay £1,500 costs and a £48 victims’ surcharge at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court. Martin Ward, 52, of Crannard Gardens, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland...
  4. Corteva Updates

    Potato growers target clean finish to season as blight pressure resurfaces

    Potato growers target clean finish to season as blight pressure resurfaces Mixed weather patterns across many regions in the UK and Ireland is leading to localised outbreaks of late blight in potatoes. Main crop varieties are closing in on the burndown phase but much of the planted area...
  5. Corteva Updates

    Flexibility and peace of mind as mixed weather hits UK potato growers

    Flexibility and peace of mind as mixed weather hits UK potato growers Zorvec® is playing an important role in north-west England where ProCam County Crops Agronomist John Cairns looks after in excess of 250ha of potatoes. For one particular farmer, John says that the longevity of protection...
  6. Corteva Updates

    Changing weather pattern puts potato growers on high alert for blight

    Changing weather pattern puts potato growers on high alert for blight Rain showers and warming temperatures have heightened the threat of potato blight with Hutton Criteria disease warnings declared across many of the UK’s key growing regions. The Blightwatch alert system, hosted by AHDB...
  7. Corteva Updates

    Controlling tall weeds and potato volunteers in sugar beet

    Controlling tall weeds and potato volunteers in sugar beet Sugar beet has now been planted and is starting to grow away. This year the crop is showing a wide range of growth stages from 4 to 5 leaves to emerging plants at cotyledon stage. Sugar beet remains an important crop in the UK...
  8. Corteva Updates

    Blog: Why I wouldnât be taking my foot off the pedal when it comes to potato blight

    Blog: Why I wouldnât be taking my foot off the pedal when it comes to potato blight After twice the average monthly rainfall in February, there is some irony that much of the country needed rain by the middle of April. But we should not forget how well the 2019 potato crop went in without the...
  9. Corteva Updates

    Revolutionary late blight potato fungicide launched in co-formulation

    Revolutionary late blight potato fungicide launched in co-formulation A revolutionary co-formulated fungicide for the prevention of late blight in UK and Irish potato crops will be available for farmers to use during the 2020 growing season. Zorvec Endavia® is a liquid combining...
  10. Corteva Updates

    Growers urged to plan for heightened potato blight threat

    Growers urged to plan for heightened potato blight threat Farmers are facing challenging conditions in which to control late blight after Hutton Criteria disease warnings were declared in key potato-growing areas. A large percentage of the UK crop is at the critical rapid canopy growth...
  11. Corteva Updates

    Changing weather conditions heaps blight pressure on potato growers

    Changing weather conditions heaps blight pressure on potato growers Farmers are facing challenging conditions in which to control late blight after Hutton Criteria disease warnings were declared in key potato-growing areas. A large percentage of the UK crop is at the critical rapid canopy...
  12. CHAPs News

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
  13. CHAPs News

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
  14. Danllan

    The war in Ukraine...

    Horrible thread title to start, ridiculous really, totally unnecessary; but Putin has done it... it seems crazy. :( I think we - Nato / the West / Democracies - should arm and finance Ukraine. I think we should have a zero tolerance of infringement of NATO airspace and territory. And I think...
  15. chester

    Smart potato cultivation system

    Would you like to : Save fuel. Reduce the number of cultivation passes. Reduce your reliance on weather. Make harvesting easier. Increase planting rate. Make management easier. We are achieving this on our own fields and I would like share it but would like to get some monetary reward from...
  16. TFF

    Drones in Insect Pest Management doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2021.640885

    One of the major components in precision agriculture is crop health monitoring, which includes irrigation, fertilization, pesticide sprays, and timely harvest of the crop. Further, the progressive change in growth and development is critical in crop monitoring and taking suitable decisions to...
  17. Ramrod

    None so blind as those that won't see.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/incredibly-upsetting-welsh-fury-as-farm-to-be-re-wilded-with-thousands-of-conifer-trees/ar-AASmbKk?ocid=msedgntp After reading this article I looked at the 148 comments. 1 says carbon credits are wrong. Approx 3 mention shortage of land to grow food...
  18. TFF

    Toward Comprehensive Plant Microbiome Research Front. Ecol. Evol., 13 March 2020

    Toward Comprehensive Plant Microbiome Research Authors: Kari Saikkonen, Riitta Nissinen and Marjo Helander Microbes have driven eco-evolutionary adaptations organizing biodiversity from the origin of life. They are ubiquitous and abundant, facilitating the biochemical processes that make Earth...
  19. W

    Are fungicides more harmful than insecticides

    We hear all the Time of farmers using less insecticides, and for good reason generally, but I do wonder if the real bad apple is modern fungicides. Amazing how many are now farming without insecticides after years of addiction, can we start to cut our reliance on fungicides too?
  20. Bigjon44

    Blight sprays

    What did people find worked best this season in keeping blight out or trying to control it once in?
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