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Seed Rates A key consideration to increase spring cereal yields is choosing varieties with a greater tillering ability that can help improve final headcounts. Modern varieties such as RGT Planet, LG Diablo and Laureate on spring barley and the new spring wheat variety KWS Cochise are shown to do...

Monitor Farm Mondays Due to uncertainty around coronavirus, this winter’s programme of AHDB's Cereal & Oilseeds farm meetings will be replaced by ‘Monitor Farm Mondays’, a series of weekly webinars featuring Monitor Farms across the country on a range of topical subjects. All Monitor Farm...

For the last 10 or so years, we've used an Andrew Guest Accord hopper to place DAP on our potato planter, reasonably successfully. It's not without flaws though, there is a limit to how fast we can plant, and how much fert we can meter out without the thing jamming/wheel skipping/backpressure...

Just been having a great Christmas read of this book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. I can't recommend it highly enough to anybody who is remotely interested in the soil (which should be everyone on here). It is all about fungi and how little we know about them, as mainstream science tends...

Written by William Kellett Sheep farmers collect a lot of data about flock performance and could make far better use of it to improve health, welfare and productivity. This is according to Nigel Miller, chair of the new Ruminant Health and Welfare (RHW) group, who said that producers naturally...

Written by John Swire A popular release in 2020, “Kiss the Ground” is a Netflix documentary which takes an extensive look at the use of soil and regenerative farming to reverse the effects of climate change. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, the film explains the emergence of industrial agriculture...

Written by John Swire Sheep farmers collect a lot of data about flock performance and could make far better use of it to improve health, welfare and productivity. According to Nigel Miller, chair of the new Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) group, producers naturally collate information about...

Interested in six or eight row disc coulter maize drills. Ability to alter from 75 to 50 an advantage. Most makes considered

Tesco have offer of half price beef joint on tv advert , is supplier paying for it?

Hi Lads ,, I know this subject has been covered before but can anyone tell me if there’s an adjuvant that covers all so to speak! I spray @ 95—100 Ltrs per ha and have used Kantor and torpedo 11.... I’m thinking mainly fungicides... validate any or much different to torpedo? Thanks for any replies.

Have any of you guys on here tried the above products. If so did you get a yield boost, and more importantly was it cost effective?

I can't see a reason to move from Yuasa.

Use sulphur Gold on the arable and looking to use same product on the permanent pasture and seeds. Any pros/cons? Had a friend use it first time this yr and couldn't of tray tested as had some pretty impressive stripping and some of his round bale silage/haylage doesn't seem to be that nice.

I'm a simple homegrower and I've been using legumes for nitrogen fixation for some time, which has saved me the hassle and money of applying ammonia fertilizer. Now, I've recently become aware that clovers are too, legumes, and they too, form nitrogen nodules for nitrogen fixation and I came...

The November Parasite Forecast includes seasonal disease advice Autumn Fluke Forecast Sheep : PGE and Scab Cattle : Lungworm infection and treatment at housing Issue: November Figure 1: Egg count data shows the most recent counts for roundworms in sheep at each location between the...

Why is this SO hard ? One of the positives of this awful lockdown year for me so far is that I have had time to do something I have wanted for a long time ............. learn to cook I spent some money saved from a canceled ski holiday on a fancy smoker BBQ (Big Green Egg) back in March and...

Used Maize Drill Advert added by: Richard Evans Machinery Details Category: Tillage Drills Price: £11250 Condition: Good Description Optima 8 Row Std Units with DF2 Front tank Std Units with E Drive ISOBUS Std Fert Coulters DF2 Front tank which was...

Written by William Kellett Dairy producers have welcomed a tool to improve early life rumen development, as the live yeast supplement, Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-1077 (Levucell SC), secures authorisation in Europe until 2030. “We’re all aware of how vital the first few months of life are...

Thinking about a new sprayer, probably SP. PWM (Capstan system) seems like a no brainer to me, individual nozzle control, turn compensation, no need for lots of air pipes along booms. Seems like you cant lose ;) So any negatives? We are running a trailed just now with auto section control (8...

Written by Rachel Martin ‘Soil health’ is a term coming up more and more frequently among farmers, growers, agronomists and researchers, but what does it really mean – and how do you know how your own farm is faring? Tara Meeke, land management technologist at the College of Agriculture, Food...