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  1. Laggard

    Small willow herb

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

    Environment Agency Q&A - Agricultural Regulations

    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...
  3. CPM RSS

    Nematicide application focus

    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...
  4. Clive

    Capital grants - Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024

    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 ...
  5. Drillman

    Multi species cover crops establishment.

    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.
  6. L

    Building the perfect direct drill

    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...
  7. Joe

    2nd tractor

    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...
  8. B

    Outwintering in the floods

    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.
  9. banjo

    Are farmers missing a trick with this scheme debacle cos they could sell their own credits !

    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...
  10. CPM RSS

    Crop nutrition: Zoning in on net zero

    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...
  11. Agriland RSS

    Recent study confirms best way to destroy cover crops

    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’...
  12. R

    Changing their minds?

    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24101112.norfolk-farming-conference-hears-defra-minister-mark-spencer/
  13. R

    SFI for lowland beef/dairy

    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?
  14. Kevtherev

    Do we need to alter the landscape of wales?

  15. P

    Winter wheat gross margin

    Anybody actually done a winter wheat gross margin recently vs sfi?
  16. skye @ bofin

    Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Project

    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...
  17. B

    Sporting rights available for syndicate Beds/Bucks

    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...
  18. Agriland RSS

    Minimal soil disturbance is the Weaving Machinery way

    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...
  19. F

    SAM2 Mulitspecies cover, who is doing it and what's your plan?

    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...
  20. Bury the Trash

    Will No till put paid to the plough ? asks a piece in the FT.

    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:
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