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Written by Rachel Birch from Agriland The Port of Liverpool has welcomed the UK’s largest shipment of feed maize, reinforcing its critical role in supporting the nation’s agricultural sector. The vessel, ‘Lowlands Future’ arrived from the east coast of the United States, carrying 55,000t of...

Hours per/week/month/year or % of time or whatever is easiest how long do you all spend doing farm office jobs? Or how much time should someone spend doing every conceivable office based task on a large mixed farm? (CS, SFI, Farm assurance, all bills paid and through xero, employment admin...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland According to the Andersons Centre, the UK cereals harvest continues apace against the backdrop of sliding grain prices. The value of UK November 2024 feed wheat futures reached the lowest point for the contract since March 2024, although spot prices...

I have some decent planet, 1.55 N, 98% germ etc. Trouble is there were two pieces of ergot in the sample. £12 malting barley premium £20? Colour sorting charge if you can get one. £30? cost of rejection at maltsters with haulage etc. Feed barley in the 140s. It's properly rubbish. Will...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A UK malting operation has commenced farm-based barley production trials, focusing on the use of low carbon fertilisers. Crisp Malt has confirmed to Agriland that the work is at an early stage, but will gather further momentum during the period ahead...

Is anybody else having to do it this year? My 45 acres has quite a lot of chickweed in the bottom. Seems to be getting more each year. Its not really dense but I haven't walked every inch of each field, so I don't know what awaits me. If I could cut it in the next few days then I'd probably get...

Expensive seed bought, royalties paid, had a bit of a babying etc and yet it's pretty crap. I honestly think what you spend on it makes not much difference Yields are lower than 20 years ago. The ground hasn't had excessive brassicas. Yes the season wasn't great but wheat doesn't seem to...

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With harvest upon us I wonder what yields will be like this season.Our first patches of OSR were desiccated on July 5th so probably won't start until 26th.Very difficult to predict the yield but not expecting too much.Wheat was quite diseased so I expect yield to be well down too.Spring Oats,for...

I found this in the small print of an AHDB email...

Just received this from AHDB.... Line to survey: https://ahdb.org.uk/cereals-oilseeds/planting-variety-survey-results AHDB’s latest Planting and Variety Survey, conducted from 15 April to 14 June 2024, shows a dramatic decline in cereals and oilseed rape (OSR) planted in Great Britain (GB)...

We import these wheats to add to the grist I believe. What are they? Are they agronomically ok? How hard is it to import seed? Just interested in other countries crops that we import and use over our own really.

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF For one Suffolk farm business, broadening its land base and the variety of crops it grows has placed greater demand on many input factors including its materials handling requirements. CPM learns how its choice of brand has stayed...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With cercospora now of high concern for both industry experts and growers, there’s been a shift in perception of the key sugar beet diseases. CPM facilitates this month’s Real Results Roundtable which weighs up the threats for the season...

Every year I dry all cereal crops and store , hoping for a better price than at harvest time .. And for long number of years now it has disappointed. What are people’s thoughts on Drying and storage. There’s a lot of work with a Batch dryer and little reward.Plus the added cost of drying to 14%...

I see following the last constitution on digital passports the business case is being tweaked and another “smaller scale” consultation is due to happen. This got me wondering, does any other country have grain passports? Paper or digital. It seems that the new proposal will offer more, but...

WB turning nicely here, now. This one's always quite an early, south-facing bit - have managed to cut it a couple of times in June over the years - most recently in 1984. But not this year! - best estimate is July 7th, if the three weeks rain currently forecast actually turns up.

Will you be going for the same strategy as normal or has the weather (so far) this year changed your plans for the autumn?

Just and thought running alongside another thread re sewage being dumped into water coarse and the forever escalation of environmental restrictions being pushed onto us over sewage and the escalation of building houses etc , should we ALL stop using sewage sludge , what would happen?