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Resilient and Ready Programme Kicks Off Online
Resilient and Ready Programme Kicks Off Online This week marked the formal launch of the Resilient and Ready Programme from Corteva Agriscience and LEAF, which aims to support four farmers on the path to becoming industry innovators and leaders. Nearly 100 participants joined the webinar...- Corteva Updates
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New service aims to restore farm soils to peak condition
New service aims to restore farm soils to peak condition Agrovista has launched a comprehensive soil health offer to help growers optimise the productivity and sustainability of their soils, simply named Agrovista Soil Health. Agrovista technical manager Chris Martin says soils face...- Agrovista News
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- agrovista analysis cultivations earthworms fertility health healthy soils organic organic matter resilient soil health sustainability
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Resilient and Ready Programme Kicks Off Online
Resilient and Ready Programme Kicks Off Online This week marked the formal launch of the Resilient and Ready Programme from Corteva Agriscience and LEAF, which aims to support four farmers on the path to becoming industry innovators and leaders. Nearly 100 participants joined the webinar...- Corteva Updates
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- carbon corteva earthworms health nutrition resilient soil health sustainability sustainable farming water quality
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New service aims to restore farm soils to peak condition
New service aims to restore farm soils to peak condition Agrovista has launched a comprehensive soil health offer to help growers optimise the productivity and sustainability of their soils, simply named Agrovista Soil Health. Agrovista technical manager Chris Martin says soils face...- Agrovista News
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- agrovista analysis cultivations earthworms fertility health healthy soils organic organic matter resilient soil health sustainability
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New service aims to restore farm soils to peak condition
New service aims to restore farm soils to peak condition Agrovista has launched a comprehensive soil health offer to help growers optimise the productivity and sustainability of their soils, simply named Agrovista Soil Health. Agrovista technical manager Chris Martin says soils face...- Agrovista News
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- agrovista analysis cultivations earthworms fertility health healthy soils organic organic matter resilient soil health sustainability
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Earthworm Watch results are in!
A big thank you to the 1,850 people who took part in Earthworm Watch! Victoria Burton, postgraduate researcher and lead scientist has been busy analysing the results of two years of data collection. Read on to hear what you have helped us find out about earthworms in urban areas. What types of...- Direct Driller Magazine
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The war in Ukraine...
Horrible thread title to start, ridiculous really, totally unnecessary; but Putin has done it... it seems crazy. :( I think we - Nato / the West / Democracies - should arm and finance Ukraine. I think we should have a zero tolerance of infringement of NATO airspace and territory. And I think...- Danllan
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Farmers to blame for hedgehog decline
‘Loss of hedgerows and field margins’ - no mention of f...ing badgers :banghead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60436607- onthehoof
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Hare and buzzard
Saw something I've never seen before this morning. A hare and a buzzard having a fight. Think the buzzard came off worst. Nature - red in tooth and claw.- Donkey5
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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What tractor for ploughing 15 acres?
I have just purchased a property with 15 acres of land and am interested in growing crops (animal farming does not interest me). I know I could hire equipment / get contractors in, but I want to be as independent as possible. What tractor would people suggest I buy? Ideally I would like an...- tommydog
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What's digging in my field?
Big cow pat pushed aside and turf dug up for worms I presume. What's doing this? fox or badger?- Jonp
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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New information about local nature recovery and landscape recovery
Morning all and happy new year. Further to the information we published about the Sustainable Farming Incentive in December (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-how-the-scheme-will-work-in-2022), today we're publishing information about the 2 other new...- Janet Hughes Defra
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AHDB can feck right off.
We Eat Balanced 2022 starts today, so thought I would be a good little levy payer and share the social media. Well, that's not happening. WTF is it with this industry ? Why are we so utterly incapable of promoting ourselves - all of us - rather than this constant 'some farms are better than...- delilah
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Comparing infiltration rates in soils managed with conventional and alternative farming methods
Comparing infiltration rates in soils managed with conventional and alternative farming methods: A meta-analysis Written by Andrea D. Basche and Marcia S. DeLonge, published: September 19, 2019. Republished under original Copyright. Introduction There is a need to develop more resilient...- Direct Driller Magazine
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What happens when we plough a direct drilled field?
What happens when we plough a direct drilled field? Using the soil health scorecard to monitor changes in soil health. Dr Jenny Bussell from The Allerton Project at GWCT shares the findings from research aiming to answer this question over the last three years. Growing food and fibre crops...- Direct Driller Magazine
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- ahdb compaction direct drill earthworms flooding grassland health microbes microbial organic organic matter resilient soil health tillage water infiltration
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Cheap Oramec
Perhaps due to everyone guzzling it as a Covid cure :rolleyes: , Ivermectin sheep drench has been out of stock at my local Wynnstays for nearly a month now, so I took to the internet looking for some. If anyone is looking for any, Hyperdrug have Oramec drench for sale at a very keen price...- neilo
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DD Drill and SLUGS
I had a demo of an Avatar drill in October. We drilled WW straight into straw removed wheat stubble and then continued onto cultivated ground. Compared to a tine drill and Vaderstad in the same field there is a huge amount more slug damage, both on the stubble and cultivated ground. Nothing was...- snarling bee
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- Forum: Regen Ag General Discussion
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Map for Direct Drilling
Is there a map for where people do more direct drilling over ploughing? Moving on from the ploughing is bad thread, where is the cross over point. Is it only for the big south of England farms? Where is is dry and sunny and warm? I’m in Northern Ireland, it’s damp and mild all year around. I...- BuskhillFarm
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How to stop using insecticides?
How did you do it? Is it an instant cold turkey approach and hope for the best? Those of you who tell us you haven’t used insecticide for years, when you took on new land, did you treat it any different? It’s a constant battle of wills with the agronomist here, he understands my strong desire...- DieselRob
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Animals mistaken for pests in crops
Hi All I have just written this blog post about organisms that are sometimes mistaken for pests in crops. https://www.eutrema.co.uk/post/animals-often-mistake-for-pests-by-growers I would love to know this community's thoughts on it. Are there any creepy crawlies I have missed off that you...- Northantsplants
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- Forum: Holistic Farming
