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AdBlue - 19/03
EPSO Top Foliar Magnesium - 28/03
Glyphosate - 28/03
Azoxystrobin - 28/03
Tebuconazole - 28/03
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Wheat bulb fly is a pest that’s been in slow decline over the past 10 years but, given the right conditions, it can still pack a punch in cereal crops. CPM looks at some new research that will better predict seasonal risk and how to manage it without insecticides.
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The Potash Development Association (PDA) is confirming that many farmers did not get fertiliser spread last autumn, due to the heavy rain at the time and the severe deterioration in ground conditions.
However, recent dry weather and good field...
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With rising input costs putting a hardened focus on maximising the efficiency of nutrients applied to crops, biological aids could prove to be an important tool in the armoury. CPM speaks to the experts.
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Wheat bulb fly is a pest that’s been in slow decline over the past 10 years but, given the right conditions, it can still pack a punch in cereal crops. CPM looks at some new research that will better predict seasonal risk and how to manage...
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Soil might be being discussed left, right and centre but, rather like an iceberg, there’s so much more going on under the surface that is yet to be unearthed and understood. CPM attended AHDB’s Agronomists’ Conference back in December to...
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Making sure crops get ‘just enough’ of the right nutrients at the right time so that they have every chance of living up to their potential requires some detective work. CPM takes a forensic look at some of the tools available to help...
This is a question for people cleverer than I, because I can’t find an immediate answer online, and I don’t know how to work it out myself.
We, all of us, grow food. Be it beef, lamb, potatoes, cereals etc etc. All of this is made up of a % of the co2 either the plant has sequestered, or the...
Can anybody tell me what to do about a soil analysis that shows a normal pH, v high phosphorous, normal potassium and v high magnesium?
That's all the info it gave me. The pH is actually quite variable across the field (5 acres), but averages 6. There are lots of buttercups in patches.
I use it...
Neighbour was having his spreader tested as he had a few different fertilisers to spread, ours needed doing as its been a couple of years not used.
Rang up to see if i could get done the same day, easier than that, pop it along to neighbours get it done there saves lifting and resetting the...
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Farmer Focus - Simon Cowell
Autumn Drilling
After the summer’s hot, dry and easy harvest, my drilling season proved to be somewhat frustrating. Soils were baked hard and cracked right through until the middle of October, small bits of 3 to 5 millimetres of rain dried within twenty-four hours...
SOIL-CENTRED WORCESTERSHIRE SUSTAINABILITY DRIVE
Home-made compost, massively reduced tillage and determined cover cropping have been central to the single-minded drive to improve the arable sustainability of the Green Horizons Network farm at Salford Lodge, Pitchill just outside Evesham over...
Sap analysis proving valuable for large, diverse farming business
In the final part of our series on sap analysis, Mike Abram talks to a farming business that’s incorporated sap analysis into a wide range of cropping
Extensive sap analysis, first in trials, but increasingly in commercial...
Got some expensive urea to use first but no so3.
Normally use piamon but don't have any this year as it was too dear...
On land needing potash planning on using potash plus .... however some land has had fiberphose so just need sulphur.... heavy land hybrid rye I may skip sulphur altogether...
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After wanting to go into milk for a few year I've eventually hit the age I could start up. The family where not wanting to start up again for the reason of it being hard to get relief milkers and not wanting me to knacker myself milking twice a day all year. So after seeing a few...
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...
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