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Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Variable rate nitrogen applications could be a valuable tool for managing uneven crops this spring, urge experts. Omnia’s Aidan Monaghan says while some crops sown before the weather broke last October have established well and show potential, others...

As a contractor, I am increasingly getting requests for data , mainly yield maps by agronomy firms. I also have a friend who does a lot of soil sampling and he is finding the same. He, having already given his customers maps and spreading plans over the years is being asked to do all the legwork...

What are folks using and why? I write my own recommendations. Still using a diary/paper based system for record keeping but looking at Green light grower and the like. As a luddite I want something easy to use, idiot proof which can maintain stock check and be portable on Android which I am...

I’ve got to do the hedgerow management survey for the SFI. Are there any apps out there ? Trying the Healthy Hedgerows one but a bit clunky. Looked at Fieldmargin but just crops etc . We’re on Hutchensons Omnia but can’t find anything on hedges. Thanks

As a contractor I have numerous customers who would like their yield data uploading onto either Gatekeeper or Omnia. I have uploaded all the yield data onto the Mynewholland portal but cannot find a way of exporting the yield data for individual farms. I do not want to just hand out the memory...

I had been using FarmWorks software, but they have been taken over by Trimble, which isn't an issue as such as most of my GPS equipment is Trimble. But now my installed version of Farmworks no longer works and Trimble in their wisdom have put all their software in "the Cloud" and I just don't...

Reducing risk and building resilience are two of the strategies being deployed by farmer Andrew Pitts to respond to the environmental and geopolitical challenges that the last five years have presented the agricultural industry. Andrew will be part of the Farmer Panel at Agri-TechE’s 2023 REAP...

As per title, we've to use BASIS/FACTS qualified person if we want to use IPM plan and Nutrient management Plan for SFI. Anyone on here offering this service? Any approximations of fees for doing these?

3million litres is some leak!! https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-06-14/firm-fined-12million-after-devastating-leak-killed-135000-fish C B

Looking for some advice about welders I’m completely new to welding, never done it at all. Idea is that I can fix breakages without having to go to the local fabricator and maybe make a few simple things too Thinking of buying a fairly basic but decent welder for farm use, one that has is easy...

Spent two hours at a presentation at HAAC today by Farmplan on their new cloud based accounting program, all ready for HMRC integration. I’ve been a FP customer for more years than I care to remember, Business Manager actually works v well, easy for a simpleton like me to use and extract info...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Deciding how to get the most from expensive nitrogen fertiliser is at the forefront of many minds this spring. CPM talks to two growers at the cutting edge of applied farm research to see how the knowledge they’re gaining from this is...

Looking into using an accord type drill as a starting point, building a frame to sit underneath it, removing all the coulters and then mounting direct tines to the new heavier frame underneath. Looking at tines, looks like you can go with the weaving sabre tine, or the metcalfe tines which seem...

Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine ‘Backward’ crops will require a good early dose of nitrogen this season, and forward crops may well warrant the same, where soil nitrogen supply levels are low, as they could run out of steam very quickly. Rob Jewers This is according to...

Introduction AgOpenGPS (AOG) is Open source GPS guidance software that can be used as a basic lightbar, right through to RTK Autosteer with section control. All systems need a Windows 10 tablet/laptop and GNSS/RTK receiver and antennae to be mounted in the vehicle, With the AOG software...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The evolution of technology has revolutionised modern-day farming, but just how beneficial can it be for managing inputs? CPM explores the concept. By Charlotte Cunningham With input costs elevated and looking likely to stay that way...

A “smarter” approach to crop rotation planning will help growers maximise productivity and deliver on the environmental goals of the new farm policy era ... Says Hutchinsons head of Integrated Crop Management, David Howard. The removal of direct payments threatens to reduce the ability of...

Chemical and Agricultural Services ltd and H L Hutchinsons are holding a soil health open day, the topics we will be covering include. How to improve the health of your soils Information on the SFI standards Protecting soil with cover and catch crops Making the most of nitrogen use Variable...

The risk from both diseases is relatively high following a milder than average winter and a significant area of crops sown early into good conditions last autumn, the firm’s technical development director, Dr David Ellerton says. “Overall, there are plenty of good, lush, early-sown wheat crops...