cultivations

I'm just going to New farm using 6 metre drill and 36 metre tramlines they don't tramline headlands. Bit stupid but when do I put my tramlines in only been used to a little combi with no tramlines big step and don't want to look a plonker with tramlines everywhere they do middle first any help...

Prepare for a Dutch-style revolt against net zero In the Netherlands, what began as a row over farm closures has become a much wider movement JAMIE BLACKETT30 March 2023 • 7:00pm I often hear from rural people, usually former Tories, with pleas for the creation of a Countryside Party. Hitherto...

Author: Nicholas Watts, Vinehouse Farm Over my lifetime, I have seen the invertebrates in our Fenland soil gradually disappear. Carabid beetles, millipedes, centipedes and springtails have all disappeared. Worms are still with us, but not in the numbers they used to be. Only slugs have been able...

Author: Phil Carson, NFFN NI From November to February, NFFN NI ran a series of farmer training courses delivered with Niels Corfield. Niels is a farm researcher and advisor who works to help create regenerative landscapes and farms across the UK, focusing on low-maintenance and productive...

Here’s my carbon audit. Circa 1200t net emissions biggest emissions are “inputs” and “fuel”. Ok, we are the ultimate consumer, fair enough. but no sequestration figure on outputs. 🤔 we don’t consume our produce on farm, it’s bought, processed and sold for profit. using a wife who is a lot...

Has anyone (or any magazine) done any (kind of) fuel efficiency tests on different tractors? Claas dealer claims that the 6 pot Arions are very frugal, i think that Case has one of the best efficiencies in 4 pots. If one was to buy a tractor i think that efficiency is one of the things that...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Lemken and the farming consultancy, Agrii, have jointly developed trials to assess how tillage equipment interacts with soils. Agrii agronomist, Dave Felce spoke a recent Lemken-hosted farm workshop in north Antrim. He explained that one of the first...

We've got a load of CS options going in this summer, various grasses, bird feed, bumblee bee mix. All the land it's going in will be in stubble after this year's harvest. Any thoughts on DD all the options straight into the existing stubble? I'm quite keen to try ... any reasons why you...

Hello, I am looking for farm work primarily in the southwest and am currently living in Devon. My main farming interests are cattle and tractors. Any questions please message me or alternatively you can contact me on 07484751677. Please find my CV Below. Thanks Luke About me I am 18 years old...

Our 2100ha farm in South Lincolnshire/North Cambridgeshire is transitioning to a Regenerative farming system growing cereals, oilseeds, pulses, and sugar beet. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person to join our arable team for combining (Claas Lexion), min till cultivations...

Download PDF Making every bit of nutrition count is the name of the game. Results of a five-year study reveals some of the nutritional pitfalls when using averages to predict crop requirements. CPM finds out more. By Lucy de la Pasture The UK’s soil has far greater variability in its structure...

I've bought 20 acres of very neglected land The hedges are blackthorn and have been allowed to spread to more than 10m thick plus I have outcrops of it in the corners I've flailed much of it but how do I stop it re growing ? Some is too big to flail (according to the contractor) approx 40mm...

Today it was raining v heavy and for some reason I happened to think about flotation tyres for spring work. Does any of us on here remember an article about flotation tyres in the FW or even Big Farm weekly about a chap that fitted very large flotation tyres to a ford 46? From memory they were...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With gross margins being squeezed, CPM talks to a grower looking to reduce inputs and finds out how a specialist biostimulants is helping to bolster disease control on the farm. By Mike Abram A cost-squeeze could be coming. There won’t...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Advances in power, road speed, suspension and tyre technology mean conventional wheeled tractors are replacing tracked models as some larger farms’ mainline machines. But one Bucks contractor believes the former don’t hold all the cards...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Arguably the biggest cause of financial losses in vining peas, bean seed fly can also decimate beans, but little is known of this pest’s behaviour and there’s no chemistry to curtail it. CPM investigates research putting this fly under the...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF It’s horses for courses when it comes to establishment systems. CPM visits a Lincolnshire farmer who’s been on the journey that’s encompassed the extremes of tillage before settling for a strip tillage system. By Rob Jones When it comes...

I’m sure like many we’ve used luximo as pre em and now needing to spend more of the profits !!!! On a contact Used in the past Atlantis -good whilst it worked Broadway star- now no good here as we have black grass as well as Italian Proverb- didn’t see much diff if any to Atlantis Monolith -...

I wonder just how many of you are out there with that promise made to you, and when the time comes that you think after working at home for no more than a roof over your head and very often any money you have made you have invested into the farming business that had been promised to you from a...

Not for the first time have I read of a direct drill comparison and found the best margins were obtained by quite a large percentage by a more conventional approach. ( This weeks FW ) Is it possible that DD and cover cropping can work and can be successful but if you are not bothered about being...