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Direct Driller Magazine - Combine Technology Feature
Morning all - the latest issue of Direct Driller magazine contains a combine technology section, that goes into an Innovate UK on-farm project aiming to introduce new technology, with peices from New Holland and Fendt on some of their new developments, plus a history tour of how tech has changed...- Direct Driller Magazine
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What’s this for?
Just found it as I’m working maize stubbles. Nitrous Oxide. It’s bloody heavy so guess it’s full. Is this what people get high on??- Jerry
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- direct drilling drilling fuel maize seed
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The humble year of an organic farmer
Under request from @Bokey I have decided to dedicate a thread to the trials and tribulations on the farm, I shall endeavour to splice the good with the bad. A bit about us, 600 acres all told, 450 cropable, 8 years into organic, mainly arable with a few wooly critters, an impatient old man and...- L P
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- Forum: Holistic Farming
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Wheat seed rates 2023
Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has...- Pottersfarm
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Do we need a drill
After this springs exercise with spring barley that was spun on (undressed hss seed ) . We were getting late last week of March so spun on the seed and a very light cultivate in with a wilrich cultivator and rolled in and it had a pre em . If we had waited any longer it would of been mid April...- tw15
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- agronomist banking beet brother btt buffer cereals claydon combi coulter coulters cows cultivate cultivator deere dff direct drilling disc disease docks dressing drilling drills fire fodder folpet fungicide gate gps grass harrow harvesting hedge horsch injury insecticides kverneland maize management moddus mounted oats osr plough ploughing potato potatoes pre-em rapid repairs seed seeding septoria slug slugs stubble t0 t1 t2 treated seed vaderstad vaderstad rapid varieties variety vicon weather weed control wheat yielding yields
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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2019 all over again?
Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?- Jsmith2211
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- Forum: Cropping
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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!- Stephensonlouis
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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New plough
I am thinking of buying a new lemken plough but don't know weather I need a Juwel 8 or 10 We plough around 500 acres of maize land of various soil types with a john deere 6195r What are your thoughts please. -
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sfi you can now apply
5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try . First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...- 4course
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- Forum: Tenant Farming, Subsidies, BPS & Legal Issues
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Wheat pre em
Morning Presumably most are still planning on planting wheat in the next month or so. With current prices and profitability what’s everyone’s thoughts on pre em choices and rates ? cheers- Mr Tree
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- Forum: Cropping
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Bps/sfi
All this talk of no one taking up sfi how many can actually say they banked 100% of there bps and will be able to manage on zero sub going forward- Gedd
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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SFI the verdict .....
Seen the latest proposals and I think it's better to be in than out , also learnt today mid tier will be incorporated in to SFI So what are you doing , think I'll have a pop .- bobk
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Winter #OSR establishment
Latest video added to Farm TV: https://thefarmingforum.realms.tv/bayer/streams/660eebed-1c6d-4dcd-b901-a58ffefaa4d4 Philip Wright, independent soil management expert, meets Phil Vickers, farm manager at Raby Estate, County Durham, one of the largest estates in the UK. The estate is looking to...- Farm TV
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Do any TFF members use a Shelbourne Reynolds stripper header to harvest your wheat?
As above. If not why not as stripper headers are used to harvest wheat in North America. In theory it is the way to go to increase the output of a combine. Why haven’t strippers headers been popular in the uk??? -
Leguminose: Transforming a niche 2023-08-31
Download PDF Intercropping, bi-cropping, companion cropping – call it what you like, but interest is increasing. An EU project aims to transform this from a niche to mainstream. CPM reports. By Mike Abram It’s perhaps unlikely a workshop about a bi-cropping project would have attracted nearly...- TFF
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How Best To Manage Dirty 'No-till' Stubbles Post Harvest Pre Drilling /Also Breaking the BYDV Green Bridge?
Thinking about our bean stubbles in particular which have a fairly weedy understory this year. Some of the weeds if left will set seed imminently (groundsel being our particular nemesis nowadays), but don't want to be too reliant on more than one pre-planting roundup. Also - thinking about...- Robert
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What Will I Really Get For 23 Hectares of Grassland From SFI?
There is a discussion on the livestock forum about the loss of BPS and rents which in theory should fall after BPS disappears and the small offering of SFI by my calculation in no way will compensate. I have a block of 23 ha of Downland that I rent, it is very steep in places and not possible...- Frank-the-Wool
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Chopped straw fields do better
Nearly all cont wheat here , the last field to cut always has the straw chopped It's incredibly consistent , not record breaking but very reliable May start chopping more often ,- bobk
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grass variety and type of sowing
Hello I am looking for some grass variety those can resist to a lot of water during the winter but not during the summer. Can you tell what are the best variety for silage or grazing? And how do you renew your grasslands ?- Franc
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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Drills: Tine for a change?
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Establishment will always be the most vital time for any crop, and having the right drill for the job plays an important role in this. CPM takes a look at some new additions to the market from the past year. By Melanie Jenkins Whether...- CPM RSS
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