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  1. T

    Crop Rotation Mistake?

    Hi folks, looking for some advice. Due to a mix up in the co-op the wrong seed ended up being put into the contractors seed drill. We were meant to be putting in Winter Wheat after Winter Oilseed Rape, instead we got some Winter Barley seed. Obviously this makes a total mess of our rotation...
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    • Forum: Cropping
  2. Jsmith2211

    2019 all over again?

    Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?
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    • Forum: Cropping
  3. Stephensonlouis

    AHL2 - Winter Bird Food

    Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April? Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
    • Stephensonlouis
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    • ab8 agrii agronomist agronomists agronomy ahdb ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 analysis application avatar barley beans beef beet biodiversity blackgrass boots break crop break crops buffer buying group bydv carbon carrots cattle cereals children clamp claydon cleavers co2 combi combo corteva cover crop cover crops cultivate cultivation cultivator dairy death defra desiccation development diesel direct drill direct drilling disc disease docks drilling drills drought environment agency environmental establishment ewes family farmdeals fat hen fertiliser fertilizer finance financial fire flail fodder fodder beet forage forecast fuel fungicide gate gleam glyphosate grain store grass grass leys grass weed grassland grassweeds grazing groundsel harvest harvesting health hedge herbal herbicide hoof insecticide insecticides insurance integrated pest management ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 knight kuhn lamma landowners learning legumes levy loader loader bucket maize management market mayweed milk miscanthus mower natural capital nfu mutual nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients nutrition oats ofc oilseed oilseed rape organic organic matter osr parts peas peaty performance pesticide pesticides pests pig platform plough ploughing pollinator pollution poppy potato potatoes pulses rapid red tractor renewal reseed residual roots roundup rpa rural payments agency rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 sandy satellite savings second wheat seed seedbeds seeding seedling sequencing sfi sheep silage slug slugs slurry software soil health soil test sprayer spraying spring beans storage stores stress stubble su sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive t3 teat thistle thistles triticale urea varieties variety water logging weather weaving weed control wheat wild oats winter wheat worms yielding yields
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  4. yellow belly

    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Starting a thread with solutions to application please keep it to practical solution there are other threads for rants and complaints
    • yellow belly
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    • agronomist agronomists agronomy ahl2 ahl3 ahl4 analysis application barley beans beef beef cattle blackgrass boots break crops brother buffer carbon carbon capture cattle cereals cleavers combi cover crop cover crops cultivating dairy death deere defra digital direct drill disc drainage dressing drilling drought environmental establishment family fertiliser fertility fertilizer financial flail fodder forage fuel fungicides gate glyphosate gps grass grass leys grass weed grassland grassweed grazing harvest harvesting health hedge herbal herbicide hoof horsch horticulture hrw1 hrw2 hrw3 igl3 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 lambing lambs lig1 lig2 maintenance maize management mapping market milk nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients oats online operator orchard organic organic matter osr paddock peas peat pesticide pesticides plough ploughing pollinator poultry pre-em renewal reseed roots rpa rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite security seed seeding sfi sheep slug slug pellets slugs soil assessment soil health soil sampling soil test soil testing sprayer storage supplement sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology testing thistles triticale turnout varieties variety weather weed control wheat wild oats woodland yields
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  5. Flat 10

    Pyraflufen herbicide

    New from Sipcam available as blackbird amongst other names. BLW contact for autumn use in cereals. Active previously available on potatoes. Only aware of it due to ad in F guide. Anyone seen any trials or prices? Any spud growers or agronomists care to comment. Non label claim of activity...
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    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Cropping
  6. bobk

    Sowing 2023

    Aside from OSR , bet someone is planting wheat or barley , too wet here at the mo
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    • agronomist agronomists application barley beans blackgrass bydv combi coulter cultivate disc drilling forage forecast grass grass weed harrow num3 oats osr plough ploughing pre-em premium rye ryegrass seed seedbeds slugs spraying storage stubble variable rate weather weaving wheat
    • Replies: 92
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  7. M

    Wheat pre em

    Morning Presumably most are still planning on planting wheat in the next month or so. With current prices and profitability what’s everyone’s thoughts on pre em choices and rates ? cheers
    • Mr Tree
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    • Forum: Cropping
  8. bobk

    Heatwave coming ...

    Well , Indian summer , better than nowt Get ready for the drought thread from the Devonians
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    • cattle combi drilling drought ewes forecast grass grass weed mower silage slug slurry storm t6 tup weather
    • Replies: 47
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  9. Robert

    How Best To Manage Dirty 'No-till' Stubbles Post Harvest Pre Drilling /Also Breaking the BYDV Green Bridge?

    Thinking about our bean stubbles in particular which have a fairly weedy understory this year. Some of the weeds if left will set seed imminently (groundsel being our particular nemesis nowadays), but don't want to be too reliant on more than one pre-planting roundup. Also - thinking about...
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    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Cropping
  10. P

    Stubble chitting machine optiond

    We’re on soils that go hard and struggling to find a machine to chit them unless they are wet. We persevered with a vaderstad carrier for a few years but got rid of it in the end as it just wouldn’t penetrate hard soils. We then used a mounted disc/press machine with the idea the tractor linkage...
    • Pottersfarm
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    • Forum: Machinery
  11. A

    SAM2 Multi-species cover crop

    As far as I understand the rules for the above. I am entitled to spin some beans into my winter barley at drilling, leave them in until the spring, and claim for the £129/hectare. Has anyone clarified this with the higher powers by any chance? It seems like a no brainer
    • AlphaBravoPapaSux
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    • agronomist avatar barley beans blackgrass broadway star cereals cover crop cover crops cultivation death defra disease drainage drilling family glyphosate grass grass weed harvest herbicide horsch insecticide ipm ipm3 lambs legumes liberator maintenance mcpa nitrogen nutrients oats openers osr ploughing pre-em rainfall rpa rye sam2 seed sfi silage soil testing spraying sprinter stubble sustainability training wheat
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  12. farmer_martin

    NUM3 Vs AB6

    I have all but pressed the submit button on a CS mid tier application for 25% of the farm into AB6 - enhanced overwinter stubbles but now the revised SFI 2023 handbook 2.0 has thrown plans into question with the offer of rotational NUM3 (SFI version of AB15). If we can now annually rotate NUM3...
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    • ahl1 application barley beans break crop cover crop cultivating cultivation defra drilling establishment grass grass weed harvest management market num3 nutrients peas potatoes rpa seed seedbeds sfi slug slug pellets stubble wheat winter wheat yields
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  13. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable farming incentive - handbook for 2023 has been published

    Afternoon all, Today we've published a handbook containing all the detailed information about the sustainable farming incentive offer for this year. The handbook is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfi-handbook-for-the-sfi-2023-offer An overview blogpost is here...
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  14. APJ

    Harvest 2023

    Let’s start a harvest 23 thread! So how far do we all think we are from starting? Winter barley rapidly ripening here early start is on the cards. First week of july maybe, rape just starting to lose its greenness also!
    • APJ
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    • Forum: Cropping
  15. colhonk

    Harry`s Farm AB6

    Whats this AB6 he was on about, leaving stubble over winter and get £522 pounds a hec. Been trawling through dozens of gov. uk pages where they say a lot but typicaly tell you nothing. :rolleyes: :facepalm:
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    • ahdb ahl2 ahl3 application baling barley beans beet biodiversity blackgrass break crop break crops broadleaved weeds brome cattle cereals coulters cover crop cover crops cultivate cultivation cultivations cultivator death defra direct drill direct drilling disc dressing drilling drone elms environmental establishment fat hen finance fire flail fodder forage forecast glyphosate grass grass leys grass weed grassweed grassweeds grazing groundsel harvest harvesting herbicide insecticides legumes maintenance maize management market milking oats oilseed oilseed rape organic osr parts peas pesticides plough ploughing pulses roundup rpa rye ryegrass sandy seed seeding sfi sheep soya sprayer spraying storage stubble t2 thistle thistles triticale water quality weather wheat yields
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  16. Clive

    Oilseed Rape 2024

    Simple question really, do you plan to grow more, less or the same area of this risky crop ? If less why ? price, csfb, slugs or other reason
    • Clive
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    • agronomist barley beans break crop brome csfb dressing drilling environmental establishment grass grass weed harvest herbicide insecticides metaldehyde metazachlor osr pests premium residual seed sfi slug slug pellets slugs varieties weather weed control wheat
    • Replies: 36
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  17. Clive

    Questions for Janet Hughes at Cereals next week

    I am on panel chaired by David Exwood next week at the cereals event speaking with Janet Hughes I have been asked to talk about my experience of Sfi pilot and Sfi so far .............. frankly I don't have a lot to say on that as it's been pretty straight forward other than issues around how...
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    • agreena ahdb analysis animal feed application barley beef biodiversity blackgrass break crops brother buffer calcium carbon cattle cereals cover crop cover crops cows dairy defra diesel digital direct drilling downland dressing drilling drills elms environment agency environmental establishment family farmdeals fertiliser financial fodder forage forecast fungicides glyphosate grass grass weed grassland grassweeds grazing groundswell harvest harvesting health herbal herbicide insecticide insecticides insurance interest rate ipm learning legumes levy lice lifeline maize management market methane natural capital nettles num3 organic organic matter osr parts performance pig platform plough ploughing pollinator premium red tractor residuals roots rpa rye seed seeding sfi sheep silage soil health soil test soil testing soil tests spraying storage storm stress stubble sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive thistle tillage weather wheat winter wheat woodland worming yielding yields
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  18. M

    Hybrid barley v wheat

    Hi Never grown hybrid barley and wondering in a first cereal position if the yields would be comparable but cost less to grow and be a better bet against grassweeds using lower N ,lower fungicide, possibly lower drying costs ? what’s others thoughts ? cheers
    • Mr Tree
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    • barley break crops brome bydv cleavers fungicide fungicides grass grass weed grassweed grassweeds harvest herbicide market nitrogen oats osr pgr plough ploughing premium rye seed vigour wheat yields
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Cropping
  19. TFF

    Regenerative trials show key advantages for most robust wheats

    Regenerative regimes allowing earlier autumn drilling can give particular advantages to the most robust wheat varieties, reveal the latest trials undertaken as part of Agrii’s Green Horizons sustainability-improving initiative. The fully-replicated trials comparing the performance of two...
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    • brown rust direct drill disease drilling fungicide gleam grass grass weed performance plough rust septoria spraying sustainability varieties variety wheat yielding yields
    • Category: Regenerative Agriculture
  20. Laggard

    Grass I.D

    What grass is this please? Cleaned out the ditch here last autumn.
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    • brome cereals grass grass weed tillage
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Cropping
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