Long range forecast saying potentially wetter for the start of May.
Are we going to see a repeat of 2012 where it rained all summer making silage/hay making nigh on impossible.
The trouble is 2012 we had a very dry march april and may, this time a very wet march and april so setting off already...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Lemken and the farming consultancy, Agrii, have jointly developed trials to assess how tillage equipment interacts with soils.
Agrii agronomist, Dave Felce spoke a recent Lemken-hosted farm workshop in north Antrim.
He explained that one of the first...
He obviously got out of the bed the wrong side (as my Mum would say).
My Reply:
I wish to reply to David Buttle in last week’s edition.
As a cereal grower I home-save and also buy-in seed. Almost without exception the home saved is better quality, mainly due to fact that it has been over a...
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Arguably the biggest cause of financial losses in vining peas, bean seed fly can also decimate beans, but little is known of this pest’s behaviour and there’s no chemistry to curtail it. CPM investigates research putting this fly under the...
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A relatively warm and dry February saw field work resume in earnest. With yellow rust already at uncomfortable levels in some regions and the T0 timing on the horizon, CPM gathers thoughts on disease control at a roundtable event hosted by...
I know it’s bin covered time and again but what is everyone using for it at the moment and best place to buy online
Only a couple Ha
Little lad wanted to grow some crops
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The future use options for fungicides in cereal crops was discussed in detail at a workshop held in Co. Down earlier this week.
The event was hosted by the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)
Both the main speakers in attendance...
I see UK Flour Millers have recently put out a press release about grain assurance.
https://www.ukflourmillers.org/post/assurance-of-imported-wheat-shows-the-value-of-red-tractor
^^^the pdf at bottom of this page goes into further detail.
They clearly like Red Tractor/ SQC, and highlight...
As above.
I mention glyphosate but surely their must be a comparable, chemical, under development to succeed it ,as should it ever get banned worldwide,the market for a comparable is huge.
So if I chop my straw and let the worms eat it.
That's good for the planet.
But if I use chopper, I burn more fuel.
That's bad for the planet.
I bale my straw and remove it.
That's bad for the planet.
Straw is burned at power station as renewable fuel.
That's good for the planet...
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...
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...
Having just returned from a lovely walk on our nearby hills, I was shocked to see a number of ponds in arable fields where there shouldn’t be. Knowing the fields in question I think some of the problem is caused by damaging the crumb structure through over cultivation.
Being a spud grower I...
Toward more sustainable tropical agriculture with cover crops: Soil microbiome responses to nitrogen
Highlights
• Microbial community changes are dependent on cover crop species under no-till.
• Palisade grass enhances soil chemical properties, crop yield and microbial diversity.
• N...
Seems to be a few news articles popping up about it.
First thought is SFI incentivises min-till. Is there going to be an unforeseen consequence. What other factors are there? Maize? Fungicide resistance? Fungicide timing? Weather (can't help that).
The Conversation: Fungal toxins are...
Can someone elaborate about being able to sell carbon credits through regenerative farming. Does that mean you are carbon negative and supposedly locking up more C than you are producing?
I was looking at some photos on Twitter of a big operation in America 8 great big John deere combines cutting massive fields of wheat. For some reason it made me wonder what sort of spec wheat are they producing from these sorts of operations. They always say they don’t get the yields we get...
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