French Style Harvest - January 2023
Since my last article in May harvest has been and gone (very quickly) and all the winter crops have been established and are looking well. This harvest it felt like we were farming in France. Most was done by the end of the first week in August and due to...
If we use fertilizer like urea, calcium ammonium nitrate or ammonium sulfate; in how many days can the plant start to use it or start to absorb it with it's roots? Are the any researches about it?
Nitrogen Stabilisers (part 2): Carbon Inputs
Joel Williams, Integrated Soils
In part 1 of this article, we highlighted that both urease and nitrification inhibitors have a minor impact on soil biology but there remains some concern over the negative impact of urease inhibitors on the plants...
Dr Michelle Fountain, Head of Pest and Pathogen Ecology, and Scott Raffle, Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager reflect NIAB’s progress in managing spotted wing drosophila in the UK fruit industry.
It is 12 years since spotted wing drosophila (SWD) was first recorded in the UK at NIAB’s East...
Findings from nitrogen and sulphur trials on milling wheat are available in a new research report. The results do not suggest major changes to guidance are needed but do show the grain protein benefits associated with applying nitrogen above RB209’s recommendation for yield.
With fertiliser...
Probably a controversial thread this !
Over Christmas I was talking to a friend ( well more a friend of a friend !) on a night out who claimed to be vegan, he really thinks hes single handedly solving global warming and ending all animal suffering !
Closer questioning (after I pointed out...
What's the difference other than £60/t?
Does the protected stuff milk the cows for me or transport the grass to the silage pit? Or is it another magic potion created by someone clever?
What time of the year do you need to switch to ammonium nitrate? End of may/early June?
Well I guess it’s time to start another annual thread about how peoples crops are looking at the start of the year.
All pics taken today.
Generally I’m pretty happy at present other than one but of rape that looks a bit thin in places thanks mainly to pheasants🙄
Wheats
Skyfall
Two year...
Farmer Focus - Andrew Jackson
October 2022
Many farmers have been surprised at their yields this year, the starting point must have been a kind autumn and winter, but it appears that sunlight in June contributes more to yield than we thought and rainfall to the beginning of harvest (6 months)...
Excellent results from the 2022 harvest, but what next?
With the harvest safely gathered in Jeff Claydon, Suffolk arable farmer and inventor of the Opti-Till® direct strip seeding system, discusses the results and looks ahead to next season.
18 August 2022
It has been a very...
In the third part of our series on sap analysis, Mike Abram learns how to interpret the results
You’ve taken your leaf sample, packaged it up and sent it to the Netherlands, and now the results have landed in your inbox. There’s a whole ray of bars and numbers for just about every nutrient you...
In the first week of August a range of farmers and industry professionals met at Moor Farm in south west Wales to hear the 2022 Runner-up to the Soil Farmer of the Year competition, Andrew Rees, explain how he has developed a dairy system with soil health at the centre.
Moor farm is a 160...
What an extraordinary growing season we seem to have had. In a nutshell, very low rainfall, low temperatures until June and good levels of solar radiation (sunshine) resulting in generally good yields with good specific weight and moderate protein. Especially so as most crops senesced...
Spring vigour in oilseed rape
Spring vigour is a key criterion scored in the field-scale oilseed rape studies Agrii trials manager, Jim Carswell runs each year with up to 20 of the most popular and promising varieties on iFarms across northern England and Scotland.
He sees consistent differences...
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The Recommended List system has changed over the years and always scores high for grower satisfaction. Just ahead of a detailed review, CPM finds out how levy payers can have their say and what potential changes are on the horizon.
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With growing interest in pulse crops, breeders have been working hard to bring forward varieties with better agronomic traits. CPM looks at the additions to PGRO’s Descriptive List, which was unveiled last month.
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Research into a biological seed treatment is suggesting it could both increase yield and potentially help farmers reduce nitrogen requirements. CPM finds out more.
By Mike Abram
Finding ways to cut synthetic nitrogen requirements, or...
Tailored winter OSR and wheat nutrition is showing excellent returns on investment from the strategic use of foliar nutrients well beyond traditional programmes at the Bishop Burton iFarm in East Yorkshire.
Additional autumn copper and early summer calcium applied to the Agrii team’s extensive...
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