desiccation

  1. Agriland RSS

    Grimme’s revamped Toppa range operates across 8 rows

    Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland With the latest Toppa series, Grimme believes that it is bringing a new generation of haulm toppers into the market. Low power consumption, redesigned housing and increased suction power are the main features of the new machines. A range of different...
  2. crazy_bull

    Glyphosate ban on European milling oats

    Something to watch! Looks like glyphosate is being banned as a desiccant for milling oats in Europe, not here at the moment but I suspect it might happen. Is there anything left in the arsenal to desiccate uneven crops? C B
  3. CPM RSS

    BP2023: Further blight complications

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Once every two years, anyone with a serious interest in the potato industry heads to the Yorkshire Event Centre for a specialist trade show. CPM attended BP2023 in Harrogate for insight into the latest sector developments, including what’s...
  4. CPM RSS

    BP2023: Further blight complications

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Once every two years, anyone with a serious interest in the potato industry heads to the Yorkshire Event Centre for a specialist trade show. CPM attended BP2023 in Harrogate for insight into the latest sector developments, including what’s...
  5. G

    Pre harvest roundup banned

    Has this been banned by eu?
  6. Trotter

    Slimer data collection

    Noticed when collecting data that there were slugs taking refuge under the stones used to weigh the traps down. Thought I'd mention!
  7. Wigeon

    Glyphosate in with pre-ems?

    It's chuffing windy I want to go drilling. I have some big weeds (groundsel, thistles) but not many grassweeds in the seedbeds yet. From memory you're only allowed 1.5lts of 360 post drilling. Is gly with pre-ems a waste of time? Thanks!
  8. Chris F

    Berlin calls for glyphosate ban in the EU

    https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/23/glyphosate-berlin-calls-for-a-ban-in-the-eu/
  9. Stephensonlouis

    AHL2 - Winter Bird Food

    Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April? Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
  10. CPM RSS

    Real Results: Little measures

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Making small improvements is helping to keep a Norfolk farmer ahead of blackgrass. CPM learns more about his approach to grassweed control. By Mike Abram It’s the little things that matter when you have a grassweed problem you’re...
  11. Brisel

    Early sown osr. Worth it?

    I have winter barley cut and baled. Some lime to go on one field. Plenty of soil moisture but free draining land. North Oxfordshire on shallow brash. Drill next week or delay until later? For those of you who have drilled osr at the end of July, how has it worked out please?
  12. M

    OSR rate for Campus off the heap

    Hello Now harvest has ground to a halt going to try and dodge some rape in with the subdisc with coulters behind packer. What rate would would you go for? It's Campus and bold stuff from 2022, has germinated well on the windowsill. Sandy loam soils after w barley. Thinking around 7kg but any...
  13. Farmer Fin

    OSR Glyphosate dose

    What sort of dose are people using for OSR desiccation? Getting conflicting advice between 1080 and 1440g per ha of active.
  14. jerseycowsman

    Drought 2023!

    None of the apps are showing any rain for the next fortnight, I’m already worried!
  15. TFF

    Agroforestry: An opportunity for sustainability 2023-03-30

    The practice of agroforestry has been described as a ‘win-win’ approach to management, as it offers the opportunity for multifunctional land use, which can simultaneously benefit food and fuel production, environmental and biodiversity protection, and allow farms to adapt to or mitigate the...
  16. Agriland RSS

    ProCam calls for growers to maximise oil content despite falling OSR prices

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Agronomy business ProCam has called for growers to maximise oil content to optimise bonuses paid on top of yield despite the falling of UK oilseed rape (OSR) from the previous £600/t. ProCam agronomist Daniel Hatchett said, if an oil bonus pays...
  17. Macsky

    Ben Goldsmith targets sheep

    This guy really knows how to wind me up
  18. TFF

    The navel - a pathway for disease after birth: Managing livestock disease

    Dr David Cutress: IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Following birth, livestock are highly susceptible to diseases and mortality rates are high Management of the newborn’s navel region is important to prevent infections from tracking through to the animal’s internal organs and causing greater...
  19. C

    Used Claas Lexion 480 or Case IH2388?

    Tell me, please, which used harvester is better to buy: Claas Lexion 480 or Case IH2388? Which harvester will be more reliable in operation, as well as more productive? Combine Lexion 480 has more moving parts, but what's really going on with the cost of off-season maintenance on these combines...
  20. jed

    Hogg deaths

    Having a mare with fattening lambs dying 30 + so far they have been dipped wormed ovivac P Alvited and there still dying talking to guy at local ag merchants he’s telling me I’m not on my own and one chap was telling him he’s lost almost 200 . We‘ve done our normal routine weaned from hill farm...
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