nitrogen

Read a snippet in the Farmers Weekly this week that seemed to imply that the new rules regarding urea and the 1st of April were a Red Tractor thing. Is it just for farm assurance or is it a defra thing, and if it`s a defra thing then what can they do if you do spread after the cut off date??

What mixes are people considering for a six month NUM3 on blackgrass clay land that doesn’t result in a huge biomass problem at the end of August? Looking to drill wheat after with a tine drill - don’t have a disc option. Happy to cultivate as not planning on DD.

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The latest UK crop update from the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) paints a very downbeat perspective regarding the harvest prospects for 2024/25. The information in the crop update was captured up to Tuesday, March 26, 2024...

Anyone done it? Grazing as in rotational

The trial at Moore Farm, Stubton will evaluate the long-term effects of pulses in an arable rotation, particularly the effect on available N to following crops. Objectives are to evaluate the effects of winter beans, winter bean/ winter wheat intercrop and spring beans on soil nitrogen supply...

Open reach guy turned up today came 30 plus miles ,he was involved in "plant protection "" or otherwords checking telegraph poles are not rotting, took hour per pole.. Another guy who lives down road is travelling To Birmingham every day 100miles each way, works for open reach. Inefficient...

In the past 2 weeks alone I've lost a good part time job at local distillery because of SEPA rules on the spreading of Pot Ale on land. It was a well paying job 2 shifts a week for me giving a welcome boost to my income. Few days later muirburn has effectively been banned in Scotland although...

The Soil Framework Directive has now been extended. Whereas a licence was needed to move soil from one site to another, which was first established in 2009 in Safeguarding our soils: A strategy for England., this now includes removing soil for testing. If you collect soil for nitrogen...

As the title suggests, is the Kuhn Quantron S2 terminal capable of Variable Seed Rate (from plans i.e SOYL) in its standard form? Are there any users of the S2 with any advice/experience of this? Or is it only possible to achieve variable seed rate sowing through ISOBUS? Drill in question is a...

I should really know the in depth answer to this but don’t so looking to the experts. I know stress has a factor as well as time but with a slow spring do we get a later heading date?

With a supreme bout of optimism, I walked a couple of my grass fields today as I thought, foolishly as it turned out, that maybe I could travel with the baby compact tractor and the even smaller single rotor disc spreader. 100kg at a time. It really would be great to spin a bit of fert on to get...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Azole fungicides are becoming less effective in the fight against phoma leaf spot and stem canker in crops of oilseed rape (OSR). This is the latest information emerging from Rothamsted Research in the UK which follows on from a series of...

As per title is there any way to do this easily and without making a mess. Will be spreading a good bit of urea this year as opposed to blends, urea has more nitrogen in it so I think this situation will arise. Would like to be prepared

Long established Cambridgeshire firm, no more apparently

How late have people gone, and still got a successful crop, obviously so many variables but interested in experiences had....direct drilled into terminated cover crop too.

I’ve never been a fan for tractors. Just have a tractor big enough, surely 🤷‍♂️ But, I bought a mower a couple of years after the tractor and it’s fine for second cut but at times with first cut I’m maxing at 8k. Not the end of the world but out of curiosity, when at the dealer I asked what they...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland According to College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops advisors, spring barley seed may be in short supply this year. This is a direct consequence of the widespread poor harvest conditions that characterised last year. According...

With the cut off date looming we have managed to spread most of the urea in store however we have a bit left that was destined for sp crops post emergence .We have a field of sp barley to go in and another of failed/drowned wheat to replace ,some has been ploughed and some cultivated earlier...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Little to no winter crop has been sown out on farms, according to College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) crop specialists. This is a direct consequence of the atrocious weather that characterised the harvest of 2023 in Northern...

Sorry for moaning but I'm fed up of the rain.. We have had one or two days where it's been nice. Land dries up then rain again and it's saturated.