cover crops

A potential anaerobic digester just up the road from me had its Planning Committee meeting yesterday. They had already approached me to grow crops for them & take digestate back. I would prefer a break crop if possible. The farm has a significant blackgrass burden. Mostly brashy soils prone to...

The budget for SFI is the same as when SPS first started. It was about £100/ acre then, which would be worth about £55/ acre now. So if everybody that claimed BPS, claimed SFI on the same area as before, and on similar value options, that is what we would all get paid. This would probably not...

Hi is anyone using the Dalbo rolls with the knife roller attachment? We’re looking at the 12m version.

Few ewe lambs running dry for the winter. Just want them to keep them ticking and growing a bit, no need fatten. Grass gone in the field. Will there b better off with a pound of meal/ day and graze what they can or silage ad lib with no meal and graze what they can.. I know the answer is both...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The first Southern Counties Farming & Machinery Show opened its gates to visitors at Newbury Showground in November and CPM attended the inaugural event to hear how robots have transformed one East Anglia based farm. By Melanie Jenkins...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Having addressed substantial energy costs across its poultry and arable enterprises, Woodend Farm in Berwickshire is looking to home-grown pulses to reduce reliance on imported soya. CPM visits to get an insight. By Rob Jones There are...

I have the opportunity to grow around 40 ha of stubble turnips on very light Breckland following winter barley next year. I will drill, spray and fertilise them. What would they be worth to a grazier with him doing all electric fencing, water and checking etc? Years since I’ve done this but used...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine How to embrace the many disruptions farms may face was the theme of a recent conference delivered by the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM). The outcome was, that adoption of appropriate technologies in tandem with the rediscovery of...

With many of you maybe not even had this years crop in yet I know Im a little keen but Im looking for fallow fields or grazing agreement for cover crops with arable farmers In cheshire or north shropshire or even further Ideally , anyone interested In having a chat please drop me a message thank you

Written by Rubina Freiberg from Agriland What started with a field of 80 years of conventional maize in France has turned into a support network for farmers across the UK to embrace farming with nature, not against it. When Andy Cato, co-founder of Wildfarmed, sold his music rights to buy a...

How does everyone find testing their cover crops for a nutrient breakdown. sampled this nice brassica mix today. How reliable has results been in the past for people reducing p & k fertilisers particularly. Some cover crops have a strong ability to access Phosphorus pools in soil that most...

Hi, I'm a student, and not directly related to farming. You see a lot these days about plant based diets and the like, in common media, so I just wanted to do some fact checking with you guys. Anyone grown animals and crops on the same fields (perhaps in rotation)? Does it produce better...

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Just had a message from APHA to let us know that they have found a case of Bluetongue near Canterbury with a 10km temporary control zone in place.

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The dry spell at the end of September and early October allowed contractor, Darren Russell, to plant a 20ac crop of Spearhead winter wheat on behalf of a local dairy farming client. The ground is situated in the townland of Killead, close to Belfast...

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Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Cover crops are becoming an important part of the cropping cycle and Pottinger is further catering for their timely sowing by fitting its trailed Terradisc models with a seed/granule distribution system. The models concerned are the Terradisc 8001 T /...

Any users on here? Good points and bad points? Tia.

Accidentally pressed the wrong buttons on my TV remote and was confronted with Coffey going through the numbers this evening 😟 1216 applications 577 agreements offered 330 accepted 52 started

Just looking for some advice. It’s biblically wet here now and there is water pissing out from everywhere. on one of our rented blocks of land there is a house below one of the access lanes. I’ve no clue what rights they have other than they don’t own the access lane. there is a significant...