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For this month’s topical cereal disease and agronomy feature, CPM reviews insights from AHDB’s re-run Early Bird Survey coupled with added reflections from agronomists and farmers.
By Janine Adamson
One thing’s for certain – this year...
Looks like a window opening up end of week, weekend to get sprayer out.
OSR beginning to flower, have Fungicide,PGR, boron to go on. Have had spray recs for about a month and never got it on. It's had 110kg/N already but normally like to get last application on as flowering starts.
Winter...
Hello everyone new to the forum and new to industrial machinery too, I have a 2022 JCB 540-200 telelift, my question is what lubricant should I use for the boom & pads? My mechanic first said red grease, then said liquid grease spray would work but last week when I asked a different Manitou...
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In a year where cereal crops will be hungry thanks to suboptimal conditions, plus continued nervousness around conventional input prices and supply, interest in alternative products continues to rise. CPM learns how biostimulants can help...
Having a go at fodder beet for first time in my "career"...
South coast, dry sandy free-draining soils. Beet is for grazing store cattle over winter. Have bought a grazing variety.
Any useful advice for a first-time grower?
Thanks in advance 👍
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Despite popularity among some growers, the true potential of fodder beet is yet to be realised, is the message from an advocate of the crop.
Among the many benefits is it’s the highest yielding forage crop, says Pembrokeshire agronomist Lyndon Harris...
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Soil fertility and productivity are severely impacted by exploitation and degradation processes. These threats, coupled with population growth and climatic changes, compel us to search for innovative agroecological solutions. Prebiotics, a type of soil biostimulant, are used to enhance...
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Drones may not be new to the industry but they are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are being utilised for more and more operations as the technology improves. CPM investigates
By John Swire
New aerial assessment techniques being...
Recently bought a 13-14ton 360 digger privately.
Came with a good(near new) narrow bucket and a big old thing to load muck in the field.
So I'm in need of a decent grading/ditching bucket, and probably a wider digging bucket.
Question is, What's good? What's bad? to avoid? And where to buy...
Any disadvantages or risks to growing potatoes after Sugar beet on well bodied black land? Not had potatoes for 7 years previously , low PCN count . Potato varieties will be Agria and Maris Piper
Thanks
Never sown companion crops with the OSR before but got fields surrounded by woods/trees destined for it this year when we get the wheat off. Was wanting something that might grow taller than the OSR without smothering it to deter pigeons landing in it. Think buckwheat might tick this box? Any...
Míchéal Kelly, Drystock Advisor, asks if kale or rape as a winter forage crop is worth it?
As the age old saying goes – ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’. This could not ring more true for winter feeding. Many farmers are enquiring in the office here about the effectiveness of using a forage...
Normally I nuke it with glypho.
But some old neighbours always use to leave it to ripen naturally.
This year, as ever, timing of the glypho looks tricky. Some is green, some is dead and will smash out under the sprayer belly.
It hadn’t ripened progressively up the plant. Sims have died off...
I managed to fill 5liters of “normal” ISO 32 hydraulic fluid on my 5445’s hydraulic tank. Should I stop and replace oil ASAP - or is it not that acute?
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