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Two new varieties have been added to the 2024 sugar beet Recommended List.
Published this week (1 April), the new additions to the RL are are Osprey from SESVanderHave UK and Smart Vesnica KWS from KWS UK. Five varieties were withdrawn which...
Liquid fertiliser on grassland
Hi all , seen an add on DoneDeal IRE for liquid fertiliser. It was a mix of Nitrogen+Sulphur+Humate+Seaweed
Didn’t look too bad in my opinion. I rang them up and it’s going to cost a bit to get it delivered to mainland UK. Was wondering if anyone else is using...
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...
Old news, but seems to have resurfaced this week. DEFRA want firmer assurances on urea usage to help reduce ammonia emissions (if you think ammonia emissions from urea are a problem in UK climate). They're saying expect legislation unless industry offers a solution.
They seem to want Red...
Read FW Editorial today. There's an idea that Red Tractor could be used to vet urea use, dates, use of inhibitors. Surely the easy solution to this is to only manufacture N fert of any kind with inhibitors. No auditing necessary, job done. TBH I can't see any disadvantage. Maybe a little extra...
When should such a mix be drilled?
Planning on trying some for the first time this year, spoke to the agronomist about it a couple of months back and thought the job was sorted.
When he rolled up here about 3 weeks ago, turned out it wasn’t. Ordered and still hasn’t rolled up, spray to burn the...
A Yorkshire farmer believes biologicals have played a key role in boosting the overall health of his potato crop.
Richard Smith from Bamburgh Grange Farm near Doncaster has been applying calcium phosphite to his 320ha of potatoes for the past five years to help his crop cope with fluctuating...
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A Yorkshire farmer believes biologicals have played a key role in boosting the overall health of his potato crop.
Richard Smith from Bamburgh Grange Farm near Doncaster has been applying calcium phosphite to his 320ha of potatoes for the past...
From cover crops to clean seed to nematicides, it’s all part of an IPM approach to nematode control. CPM reports
For all the problems created by higher energy and input costs or the pressure to reduce carbon emissions, it is potato cyst nematodes that many advisers consider to be the...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Agrii agronomist Tom Land has confirmed that the variety and structural make-up of fertiliser is changing.
He spoke at a recent farm workshop, hosted by Lemken, at the Ballymoney premises of John McElderry Tractors in north Co. Antrim.
According to...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The latest crops update from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) in Northern Ireland has confirmed the high cost of fertiliser relative to current grain price.
According to CAFRE crops advisor, Leigh McClean, this means that...
Written by Megan O'Brien from Agriland
Multinational dairy company Arla Foods has opened a new solar power plant in Tychowo, Poland, which will produce 1,620MW/h of energy per year, which will be used to power its repackaging plant in the region.
Comprised of 2,596 solar panels, the power...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Farmers attending a recent meeting in Co. Armagh were briefed on the benefits of foliar feeding grassland swards.
The technology has been widely used within the tillage sector over a number of years. However, the potential to use foliar feeding as a...
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From cover crops to clean seed to nematicides, it’s all part of an integrated approach to nematode control. CPM digs into the detail but finds there’s far from an oven-ready strategy across the industry.
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Deciding how to get the most from expensive nitrogen fertiliser is at the forefront of many minds this spring. CPM talks to two growers at the cutting edge of applied farm research to see how the knowledge they’re gaining from this is...
Farm manager David Aglen hopes to improve the arable productivity of his 1,300-hectare mixed farming business through the testing and demonstration of innovative practices.
Balbirnie Home Farms, host of AHDB's Strategic Cereal Farm in Scotland, near Cupar, is currently in the third year of a...
Does anyone replenish their soil with any of these minerals: calcium, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, vanadium, zinc or boron?
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