cover crops

Think this is willow herb? Best herbicide to kill it pre spring barley drilling please?

Welcome to the Environment Agency Q&A event on The Farming Forum. For the next two days, this thread will be open for questions for our team at the Environment Agency to answer farmers questions on agricultural regulations. The Environment Agency are aiming to engage with the community on the...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine With the UK potato industry facing more challenges than ever, ensuring accurate nematicide application is being advised by experts. However for one grower, Ollie Dennis of Dennis (Haddenham) Limited, attention to detail along with using the best...

So to get our heads around how useful this support offered by Rishi yesterday, who plans to take advantage of the FETF capital grants this year ...

As above would a set of grass harrows with a seeder on it do the job? follow with the rollers when rain is in the forecast Would be the plan.

Come on you farm engineers if you were to build one from scratch what features would be an absolute must. Would you choose discs or more of a knife like coulter? How would you go about designing a drill which would cope with a mixture of cropping from Cereal,rotational grass ,into cover crops...

Have gone back into tillage here around 70 acres so far prob go to 100 from all sheep setup. Contractor does most of the tillage work, I do rolling, reseeding, cover crops and draw grain trailer etc myself. Have 15 yr old 110 hp Agrotron with loader that I really like, but do need more HP for...

How's everyone getting on keeping sheep and cattle outside. Pretty biblical round here. Thinking will have to house the multiples for a month to give us half a chance of getting through to spring.

Now I read this before somewhere and thought what a great idea, tell the welsh government to stick their schemes up their hole and just sell our carbon storage pasture credits in an open market to wealthier businesses looking to store carbon on pasture or whatever and only take the price we want...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Managing crop nutrition is a nuanced subject at the best of times but add in net zero goals and it becomes a whole new ballgame. CPM explores how crop nutrition can go hand-in-hand with environmental goals. By Melanie Jenkins and Rob...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A recent ADAS study has confirmed that cover crops can both refine nitrogen (N) usage and protect water quality. This work was co-funded by Affinity Water and Portsmouth Water under the aegis of a project known as ‘Nitrogen release from Cover Crops’...

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Getting a bit lazy here rather than look for it but has the latest round of options made it any more feasible for livestock farmers to enter SFI without cutting back on production?

Anybody actually done a winter wheat gross margin recently vs sfi?

What has already been done? Last year, a project to establish the level of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in arable soils across a range of locations, soil types and management systems was carried out. The project, led by Dr Tom Thirkell of the Crop Science Centre, complemented work...

Hi all, I came across this forum and thought it may be worth a shot posting on here. If you don't ask then you'll never get anything! Obviously I understand the financial implications of taking on a shoot and well aware of costs. I would like to try and acquire some sporting rights to setup...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland One of the great takeaways from Agritechnica last year, was the rapid move towards minimising soil disturbance in preparing ground for the next crop. This an approach echoed by Weaving Machinery, which had a significant presence at LAMMA. There is a...

I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes: