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  1. J

    Anyone spread any fert?

    I'm getting a bit twitchy, not spread any yet, has anyone? I'm getting worried it's getting late but don't want it to tend up in a river! I'm thinking of going Wednesday as its looking dryish during the day and Thursday? What sort of rates for urea on silage ground and grazing g ground would...
  2. DieselRob

    Summer cover crop options after astrokerb

    Astrokerb applied in mid January to what seemed like osr with half a chance of making crop but it’ll now be written off. I don’t want to go down the deep cultivation route if I can avoid it What options have I got for creating a grazeable summer cover which will also do the soil some good as...
  3. Wigeon

    Winter cover crops on heavy land... what a disaster

    I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving. I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous. Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
  4. cquick

    Pimp My Maize Drill

    So I thought I'd post my adventures in pimping my Kuhn maize drill for the upcoming season. I use the drill for maize, pumpkins and OSR, where I run ahead with a subsoiler and follow down the lines with the drill. Sort of like strip-till but not quite. I'd like to use it in a truly no-till...
  5. CPM RSS

    OSR weed control: Smooth operator

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...
  6. CPM RSS

    Pushing Performance: Winning ways

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Amid a constant battle with declining chemistry and catchy weather windows, including an adjuvant in the spray tank is proving essential for one Wiltshire spray operator. CPM finds out more. By Charlotte Cunningham At Clarendon Park...
  7. bobk

    Looking grim .......

    10th of March , next 10 days is shite , turning in to the year of shiteness , El Nino can fo .
  8. D

    Osr storage problem

    I have about 6t of osr in a trailer that was cut after the wheat so not been able to go through the drier. Been ok till now but starting to get some tiny pink mites in it. Will the k-obiol do any good. Any other ideas. We have some pedestals but the pile is not big enough for them to go in.
  9. R

    Chopped straw livestock bedding

    This year the straw I’ve been supplied is chopped, how this straw compares as bedding to non chopped: Negative: 1. Cattle are mucky after 24hrs, to keep them in the same condition as non chopped straw would need double the round bales. 2. It’s probably due to to a wetter year and how the wind...
  10. P

    Fertilizing winter cereal

    Whats everyone elses position. The wheats looking really hungry now and its so wet wondering whether just go and make a mess or be patient?! Must be loosing yield surely.
  11. Poncherello1976

    Straw/Stubble Rake

    Looking at getting a rake for this autumn, using the FETF grant. It looks like some of them come with discs on the front as an option. It will be working in front of a tined direct drill and as well as spreading out the residual straw I am interested in the fact that it may chop the straw up a...
  12. Kevtherev

    Reduction in arable acreages

    Just a thought Straw shortages for the livestock industry Less cereals for feed Less acreages for the spraying contractors Less agronomy and chemicals Les’s fertiliser sales And so on Hearing big acreages of SFI
  13. crazy_bull

    Glyphosate ban on European milling oats

    Something to watch! Looks like glyphosate is being banned as a desiccant for milling oats in Europe, not here at the moment but I suspect it might happen. Is there anything left in the arsenal to desiccate uneven crops? C B
  14. spin cycle

    torches and pitchforks

    with europe and wales 'a fire' with farmer protests?......why arn't we english farmers getting 'busy'? i could try a poll but i suspect the reasons might be to varied? for me....i've just got to much going on....feel it would be better concentrating on 'playing the proposed system' rather...
  15. D

    Reduction in Combinable Crops Output as a Result of SFI

    One for combinable crop growers.
  16. Mythoughts

    Food security is a silly argument…

    Perception and perspective are very different things. Generally individuals and old farmers see food security as an existential threat eg if we had a major war (see WW2) and we struggle to have enough food in the UK. Retailers and governments see food security along the lines of “are the supply...
  17. Surgery

    5-6 weeks till cuckoo song

    Not wanting to depress folk but another one or two big rains and looking around a lot of spring stuff won’t be going in , Europe in pjaves can’t be much different , fert and chemicals not gone on on a lot of winter crops and gone backwards in places , what’s folks farms looking like and what’s...
  18. P

    Question for 36mtr /+ wide sprayer operators ??

    How do you ever judge whether the end of the 36mtr or wider sprayer boom is not overlapping the grass margins around the edges of fields, especially when spraying glyphosate!!! I am only asking out of interest as years ago I found it hard enough judging where the end of the sprayer boom was...
  19. Vader

    GFC was to go ahead - now not going ahead

    Just seen in FW that RT plan to press ahead. RT(and so NFU) have now come out with it. So that's the battle lines drawn.. If you want GFC, then stay in nfu If your again it, join BFU Also looks like we need to talk with NSA Anyone with contacts at top of NSA? Updated on 8th March following 2...
  20. A

    Hybrid rye

    Anyone growing rye/hybrid rye for a digester? Pro's and con's? Yeilds?
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