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New data shows severity of brome concern for wheat growers Hundreds of farmers, contractors and agronomists have indicated that brome is a growing threat in the battle against grassweeds in UK arable fields. New data from a Corteva Agriscience survey shows that 80% of respondents have...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Hundreds of farmers, contractors and agronomists have indicated that brome is a growing threat in the battle against grassweeds in UK arable fields. New survey data suggests that 80% of respondents have populations on their farms with the vast...

Having a go at fodder beet for first time in my "career"... South coast, dry sandy free-draining soils. Beet is for grazing store cattle over winter. Have bought a grazing variety. Any useful advice for a first-time grower? Thanks in advance 👍

I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Fife arable farmer, John Hutcheson, has been appointed the new chair of Scottish Quality Crops (SQC), with Mark McCallum being appointed SQC’s new vice-chair. The organisation operates Scotland’s Quality Assurance Scheme for combinable crops...

What is a sensible sized grain bucket for a 3.5t lift Manitou? My current bucket will hold about 1800kgs of wheat and I want to go bigger without going too big for the machine.

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Fife arable farmer Josh Hutcheson has been appointed chair of the board for Scottish Quality Crops (SQC) – Scotland’s quality assurance scheme for combinable crops. Mark McCallum has been appointed to the position of SQC vice chair. Hutcheson...

Hello All. Bought some more Pigs from a very fit 83 year old today. Smashing guy. Sure he thought we were clueless ! ( We are !) Anyway he said we should be feeding them Fodder Beet. Anyone know where we could buy some. Located South East Many thanks

I'm thinking about growing Champion winter wheat next autumn but its standing power rating isn't as good as Graham and Gleam I grow now. Did anyone who grew it last year experience excessive lodging or is it ok with a decent PGR program?

Plan on treating some grain with propcorn, would it be ok to store in ton bags straight away or a bad idea?

I have some gravely land which has had sheep outwintered on. I have spring barley and oat seed on farm. I’m leaning towards barley as it should make malting but will the oats do better on gravel and subsequently yield more?

Morning all , Is this possible .... Putting a patch into SFI herbal ley which will need to be established in the Autmn at latest . I was wondering about putting spring barley in and undersowing it with the herbal ley . Will it work ? Thought please ?

Below you can find the key results found from the 2nd year of the HWSC project. Data was analysed by weed scientist Will Smith at NIAB after receiving weed samples from BOFIN member Seed Scouts. Let us know your thoughts...is this what you expected?

I thought I’d just start this off as something to think about during cold dark winter days, so please feel to add to the list: Lundell forage harvester Lundell seed drill Bamford Wuffler Cock Pheasant Tedder Kidd Rotaflail Taskers Fertispread

About to start feeding inlamb ewes that lamb in Feb. Got alka treated oats and barley, wondering if I should try rape meal with it instead of soya. Any thoughts ?

I am looking to buy 10 dairy x heifer calves. Either Angus, Herefords or Belgian blue. 3-4 months. I’m wanting to rear them up to keep as cows. Could a home mix ration be fed to them? Iv plenty barley and beans and oats available on farm. Hay silage and straw. What would be the best for them or...

To early or not , some light land we lifted beet , any way its going in tommorrow , 57 tgw ,at 220 kg And then some skyfall and fire fly on some silt

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine The liquid version of tri-allate has gained a spring wheat label recommendation to assist growers with grassweed control. Available as Avadex Factor, the liquid formulation now aligns with the granular form – Avadex Excel 15G – which has full label...

I've got a couple of stubble fields with some volunteer spring barley that would be difficult to bury completely with the plough as they are my brashiest, thinnest soils. I don't want to have to spray it, and have no sheep now. I was thinking about rolling it in the frost. Has anybody done this...