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Why does wheat seed rot but blackgrass doesn’t?

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Co. Laois native, Brian Caldbeck, has confirmed that tillage farming in the United States (US) has performed reasonably well over the past number of years; despite the challenges posed by last year’s spike in fertiliser prices. Caldbeck moved to...

We've Been grazing cover crops for the last five years now and to great success, species including; rye, vetch, oats, phacelia, turnips, forage rapes, volunteer cereals, the list goes on, but one species we haven’t had anything to do with is Linseed. We’ve been offered a block of around 200...

Do we have a seed drill mindset? Some years ago Clive Bailye arranged a trial of 10 or so different direct drills on a level uniform 50 acre field. There was a spare plot which they seeded with a fertiliser spinner and then scratched over the surface. It performed far better than expected...

Just stumbled on this on Utube folks what do you recon??

Looking at changing my 456a john deere, was looking seriously at getting an MF inline but proving dificult to find one and they're rather pricey. Had several people recomend welgers, and they seem slightly cheaper too which wouldnt be a bad thing. Im impressed by the amount of twine it looks...

My spring oats this year are really poor quality, 35.5 kg/hl and 12.5 % admixture. I have spoken to the companies I usually sell grain through but they can't move anything less than 40. Any ideas who might buy ?

Council pass motion asking for 'independent review of rt governance" rt seems to be limping from one row to another oh dear what a pity😁

Currently a traditional set up; plough/ heavy cultivations then drill but looking at going straight in to stubble or minimum amount of tillage. Looking at a Claydon, are they any good…? Cropping consists of wheat, barley, oats, maize & grass but obviously would only be for cereal crops.

Why don't we see more of these used in the uk?

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF How can growers cut greenhouse gas emissions on farm? Agronomist Chris Taylor’s Nuffield scholarship looked at how regenerative farming could help. By Mike Abram Enough carbon footprints have been carried out on arable farms over the...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Scotland’s chief statistician has released first estimates of the 2023 Scottish harvest – revealing that the total cereal production is expected to be around 3 million tonnes. The statistics, released today (Thursday, October 12), predict that...

Anyone using a companion crop in wheat that is not killed by pre em but easily killed in spring or by frost?

As above we have some heavyish land to sort out, it’s had spuds on it and headlands are largely churned to mud so won’t be drilled this autumn with anything unless we get a prolonged spell of dry weather. what I’m thinking is probably in. Spring is to level the ruts out and plant some sort of...

Anyone else normally drilled up by now and not started. Ditches are down and water is getting away but it's sitting on top and drains have been jetted last year etc so they should be fine. It's like it's sat on top but there must be 6 inch of water to plough in more in places West Lancashire...

Got a mate wants half a tonne for his sheep. What should I charge him?

How tf do they get away calling this product by this name?

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...

The average UK human consumes approx 575g of food per day (see chart below) There are 60 million people in the UK. Approx 50% of all food consumed is imported into the UK. That means over 30,000 tonnes of imported food is required per day, on average. Is that right? If so, this equates to over...