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Hello all, I am currently in the position of working a stable job but the opportunity is on the horizon of the small family owned arable farm. I know my way around a tractor but have never actually ‘done’ farming. Is taking it on myself viable? All the machinery is bought and paid for albeit...

Written by Charlotte Cunningham Growers of high quality wheat are being urged to consider applying a range of crop nutrients at the critical flag leaf stage, as bonuses up to £20/t are being offered for milling wheat with a protein content of 13% or more. Charlotte Cunningham reports. With...

Written by William Kellett Growers of high quality wheat are being urged to consider applying a range of crop nutrients at the critical flag leaf stage, as bonuses up to £20/t are being offered for milling wheat with a protein content of 13% or more. With wheat prices currently sitting at...

Has anyone got red/brown tipped leaves. Agronomist thinks its the cold dry weather we've had, I hope anyway! He said other clients have the same. Sprayed 10 days ago with 1.25 l Chlormequat 0.5 l Tubosan 0.1 l Moddus 0.4 l Starane 21g Ally Max Started spraying after 10 in the morning and...

Written by William Kellett Yellow rust levels are currently high across the country, with infections set to rise over the next few weeks. This means that growers should be prepared to protect crops from this potentially devastating disease. Andrew Wright, area business manager at Hutchinsons...

Does anyone know of any independent trials comparing like for like products? It seems like the big chem companies like to tell everyone their stuff is better and the major distributors like to go with that. I have a background in animal health where generics are probably more used than the R&D...

Written by cpm Download PDF In-season tissue testing combined with targeted nutrition offers an effective way of improving crop resilience and maximising yield potential. CPM discovers how. Once you see deficiency symptoms in the crop, you’ve already lost half the battle. By Paul Spackman...

This Alert is being circulated on behalf of Police Scotland The following chemicals were stolen between 25th and 26th March 2021 from a commercial warehouse at AGRII, PARKHEAD, MAINS OF KILRAVOCK, CROY, INVERNESS, IV2 7PJ. These chemicals are specific to farmers and Agrii. BOOGIE XPRO PLUS -...

I don’t like slating anyone involved in ag, but the Guy smith reply to the red tractor debate was dire. of course they have to mix products and that is why we are fed up with this nonsense of being gold plated for us and not for everyone else who supply’s part of the supply chain. Guy smith...

So I presently run a Amarok doing 15,000 miles a year. It’s leased and going in June this year. It ticks all the boxes for me as it’ll travel across fields, tow a trailer, carry stuff in the pickup bed, takes the kids to and from school and is also happy travelling to the coast on holiday. I’ve...

Written by William Kellett The FMC has appointed a new commercial technical manager in a bid to strengthen its support to farmers and agronomists. Georgia Antoniou joins FMC as its newest commercial technical manager bringing with her a wealth of knowledge in agronomy. Having previously...

This advert was seen on Twitter this evening. Completely wrong, totally misleading. One of 2 adverts I saw for Oatly on twitter this evening. How are companies able to put this stuff out with such wrong information on. I appreciate I gave put a screenshot up, and most of the content is in a...

Has anybody else received the following email, asking for how it should be run in the future Dear Red Tractor Member, As we move towards a new era in British farming, it feels like the right time to reflect on just how far we have come as an industry. Many of you have been producing great...

Inaccurate coverage in the Telegraph on National Audit Office’s report Written by Defra Press Office The National Audit Office today published a report on monitoring and improving progress against the 25 Year Environment Plan There is coverage in today’s Daily Telegraph, Times, and...

Beans have beaten my pre em spray. I'm mad with myself. Drill guy told me they were in 6 or 7 inches. Turns out it's nearer 3. Went to have a look today with a view to spraying tomorrow and there's 40 -50 % emerged. Gonna drop the kerb but I'm tempted to go with the clomazone. Agronomist seems...

Groundswell and the PFLA are collaborating on a webinar: https://groundswellag.com/landscape-level-collaboration-three-different-approaches/ Should be interesting

Heifer rearing is integral to your dairy farming enterprise, with a lot of helpful information becoming available over recent years to help drive improvements within the industry. In addition to this, key decision makers (often at the processor and distributor level) have been imposing more...

As part of Farm Compare, it has a basic lookup for crop protection products to allow you to lookup products and find equivalents. We get this data from the HSE. What I didn't realise is how fast this data changes. over the past 17 months we have been monitoring the list, there have been 346...

Dr Peter Quinn appointed as new Chair of CHAP Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) one of the four UK Agri-Tech Centres of Innovation, has appointed Dr Peter Quinn, CEO of Genius Foods, to be its new Non-Executive Chairman, following the retirement, earlier this year, of John Chinn. Peter brings...

Went to spray off some barley for a neighbour snapper glyphosate, chaperone wetter. Used that mix for him several times already without problems. Yesterday started, most of nozzles blocked. Went home took them off unblocked them all and went to start again. Same again, most blocked within...