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Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF In a year where cereal crops will be hungry thanks to suboptimal conditions, plus continued nervousness around conventional input prices and supply, interest in alternative products continues to rise. CPM learns how biostimulants can help...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With the landscape of agriculture changing vastly over recent years, CPM explores the place for biostimulants in a new era of farming. By Charlotte Cunningham When you think about biostimulants as being any substance, other than...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Establishment is a critical period of any season, but it’s been a challenging time to get crops drilled, so what does this mean for T0 applications? CPM explores the diseases likely to be most problematic this spring and how to manage...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF British Sugar has started a shake-up of how the sugar beet campaign is run through a new project – the Field-to-Factory Partnership. CPM learns how the company is seeking to make harvesting and delivery of the crop more efficient and...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Given the highly variable field conditions across the country, devising an effective spring fungicide programme may feel like an insurmountable feat. Although it’s difficult to predict impending disease pressure with so many unknowns, CPM...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF AHDB Monitor Farms is a nationwide network of like-minded growers with the common goal of improving their business through sharing performance information and best practice. CPM learns more about what’s involved. By Janine Adamson...

You are a cereal farmer so understand all the pressures farmers in general are presently under. Your videos over the last 2 years have highlighted things like high fertiliser prices, low market prices, high machinery prices etc and it gives your none farming viewers an understanding of what we...

During Covid, the supermarkets were started on a path of 'pre-competitive collaboration'. It worked well and they were keen to do more. This resulted in the WWF basket; https://www.wwf.org.uk/wwf-basket We then have a cost of living crisis and the government want the supermarkets to subdue food...

Evening all, Anyone got any ideas of how to weigh a bulk builder's bag, with up to 1t in it? Would be handy to have something that it would sit on, but don't mind picking it up to weigh it if needed. Looking for the cheapest way! TIA (y)

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I’m thinking I need one to relieve compaction now I am moving away from ploughing. I like the idea of low disturbance, but is that possible combined with removing compaction? Are leading discs important? How many legs/meter? Do some manufacturers make a better job of it than others?

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/defra-minister-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production?utm_source=hometopstories

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

Any issue's to look out for with drilling grass/clover seed this year from seed bought in summer 2023?

New data shows severity of brome concern for wheat growers Hundreds of farmers, contractors and agronomists have indicated that brome is a growing threat in the battle against grassweeds in UK arable fields. New data from a Corteva Agriscience survey shows that 80% of respondents have...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Hundreds of farmers, contractors and agronomists have indicated that brome is a growing threat in the battle against grassweeds in UK arable fields. New survey data suggests that 80% of respondents have populations on their farms with the vast...

I've been getting quotes on this and prices REALLY vary - lots of factors like different seed mixes and drilling rates to consider when comparing these mix price but I just simply want the cheapest possible mix that satisfies DEFRA requirement @Farmdeals are running a collective deal on AHL1...

Usually weave mesh together and get on ok but time consuming. Have been useing mild steel but moving on to HT and I’m wondering if the HT won’t be so easy to weave. What do other people do ?Would like to try those crimp sleeves but the proper crimping tool seams a lot of money, have seen much...

Had a shed put up here a couple of years ago, by a local outfit, and the sheets were all fixed down with tek screws. Was speaking to another guy lately, who does a bit of shed building, and he maintains they should be nailed down as the tek screws can unwind themselves a little, allowing the...