To introduce myself: my name is Peter Martens, we operate 1900ac/760Ha of Organic land roughly 400km north west of New York City. Most of our ground is loamy though we have areas of heavy clay made up of weather shale. We have plenty of round rocks but not too many flat rocks.
We currently...
We are taking on our arable operations ourselves, having been in CFA for 12 years (we are livestock/grass farmers historically). We have 90 ha of cereals, 60 ha of GS4 herbal ley in the arable rotation. We have subsoiler, discs, basic tine drill but not really set up for arable, plus grass...
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...
First time drilling, always used a contractor in the past. Using a Lemken combi drill with electronic metering. The metering wheel is a small rubber wheel and in the current conditions it's picking up a lot of soil which seems to be affecting the speed on the Lemken screen. When I get out and...
Keir Starmer and Labour are considering scrapping agricultural and business property relief.(The Times).It would be devastating for family farms requiring the next generation to borrow huge sums or sell up to pay inheritance tax bills.What a disaster this would be for so many farms where the...
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Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has...
After this springs exercise with spring barley that was spun on (undressed hss seed ) . We were getting late last week of March so spun on the seed and a very light cultivate in with a wilrich cultivator and rolled in and it had a pre em . If we had waited any longer it would of been mid April...
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?
We had a new Sumo DTS toolbar/front hopper this spring which has had quite a few issues and Sumo have been very good at sorting them out so far.
All of our spring crops had massive 20m misses/boxes on the “ins” put down to surging oil flow to the fan and a lots of air leaks on the pressurised...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
CropTec has said that seminars at this year’s show will equip arable farmers with the knowledge they need to meet the challenges faced by the industry “head on” and to maximise opportunities.
This year’s event will take place on November 29 and...
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
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
A Group 2 winter wheat has bucked recent trends of low specific weights for milling quality to perform beyond expected for one Northamptonshire grower.
Emma Bletsoe says she’s ‘delighted’ with her first crop of Mayflower and as a result, plans to...
Never grown them before, recovering OSR grower. Which is a good winter variety and what seed rate if ploughing or Claydon drilled please? Any other advice welcome.
Any advice would be welcome on this. I have 80ha of heavy, flinty, hilly land going into winter wheat that currently looks like this:
It's chest/ head high, completely alive with insects, and is mainly spring linseed, buckwheat, sunflowers, phacelia, and a bit of clover and vetch.
I don't...
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Intercropping, bi-cropping, companion cropping – call it what you like, but interest is increasing. An EU project aims to transform this from a niche to mainstream. CPM reports.
By Mike Abram
It’s perhaps unlikely a workshop about a bi-cropping project would have attracted nearly...
We are having issues with our T7.315. New last year and FMX installed by dealer and GPS supplier (well known national firm) at local tractor dealership. It is on RTK with a local Trimble base station. We run three FMX units in CNH tractors and the other two are working fine. Last autumn and...
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