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Any solution to Cow Parsley in OSR?
Cow parsley is creeping into certain areas of the farm. It can seemingly be controlled reasonably well with SU's in wheat, but Its the OSR stage of the rotation thats letting the area it covers expand, and Astrokerb or Belkar don't seem to touch it, neither has a test with Korvetto (Arylex... -
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Spring cereal seed
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Red Tractor meat
Can a livestock farmer clarify this one please ? can a (live) animal be imported to a UK Red Tractor assured farm that is then later slaughtered in the uk become red tractor assured ? if so how long must it be on the uk farm before slaughter ? think there maybe some mis information this on X...- Clive
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- beef calf cattle cows dairy death ear tag financial management market milk organic osr parts premium red tractor seed sheep stores
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Who counts the bee population
Production of some crops has been decimated due to the loss of insecticides over the last 20 years, sorry 45 years. Has the bee population increased, if not why not?- Devil's advocate
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- beans beet cereals dressing fertiliser fertility fungicides glyphosate grass insecticides osr peas pesticide pesticides pollinator potatoes rye seed variety weather
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Fert applications
With a supreme bout of optimism, I walked a couple of my grass fields today as I thought, foolishly as it turned out, that maybe I could travel with the baby compact tractor and the even smaller single rotor disc spreader. 100kg at a time. It really would be great to spin a bit of fert on to get...- steveR
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- ammonium beef beet calves cows dairy disc drilling drought ewes fodder fodder beet forage forecast grass grassland grazing hedge herbal herbal ley lambs milking nitrogen osr parts polysulphate quad sheep silage sulphate thistles weather wheat
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- Forum: Livestock & Forage
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Research: Azole fungicides less effective against some disease
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Azole fungicides are becoming less effective in the fight against phoma leaf spot and stem canker in crops of oilseed rape (OSR). This is the latest information emerging from Rothamsted Research in the UK which follows on from a series of...- Agriland RSS
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- azole boscalid cultivation disease fungicides genetic nitrogen oilseed oilseed rape osr phoma rapeseed sprayer testing tillage
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- Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
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started today on some good wheat on silt- Will 1594
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- agronomist atlantis beet blackgrass brome brown rust disease drilling folpet forecast foxtrot fungicide fungicides grass grassweed groundsel harvest hatra herbicide insitor manganese osr pacifica pgr roundup rust rye septoria sfi sprayer storm su t0 t1 t3 teb univoq varieties variety weather wheat yellow rust
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- Forum: Cropping
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How much isn’t getting planted
Another soaking yesterday and not looking like any planting in the next two weeks with 170 acres unplanted which might not get done , how much is left to do , I recon most people around here are 1/2 to 3/4 planted at best.- Surgery
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- agronomist beans brother cattle cereals children combo cover crop cows defra disease drainage drilling drought family fertiliser finance flooding forage forecast front linkage grass grazing harrow harvest harvesting herbal herbal ley maize market nettles oats operator osr parts plough ploughing potatoes rain gauge rainfall reseed sandy seed sfi sheep silage sprayer spring beans sprinter stores storm umbilical weather wheat winter wheat yielding yields
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- Forum: Cropping
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Spring bean's....
How late have people gone, and still got a successful crop, obviously so many variables but interested in experiences had....direct drilled into terminated cover crop too.- Matt77
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- abortion aclonifen agronomist ahdb ahl2 beans break crop charlock claydon cleavers clomazone cover crop drilling fertiliser financial forage forecast fungicide groundsel harvest herbicide irrigation malting nitrogen oats osr pdm peas pendimethalin potatoes pulses rainfall seed sfi spring beans treated seed varieties variety weather wheat yielding yields
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- Forum: Cropping
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NFU claiming credit for 25% SFI cap
Received an email today from NFU welcoming SFI cap and was a result of their lobbying. Can you believe it. !!- Mad Farmer
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- ahdb ahl1 application beans bedding beef beet break crops brome cattle cereals compaction coulters cover crop cover crops dairy defra development diesel direct drill direct drilling disease drainage drilling drought electricity elms environmental establishment family fertiliser fertility finance financial first cut flail forage fuel fungicide glyphosate grass grass weed grassland grassweeds harvest health herbal herbal ley insecticide ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 landowner landowners legumes levy maintenance maize management market markets methane milk mounted mower num3 oilseed oilseed rape omnia osr parasites peas pesticide position red tractor repair roots sam2 sam3 security seed seeding sfi sheep silage soil health solar soyl stress sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive telehandler tillage transport urea variable rate weather wheat winter wheat yields
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Looking for an Inter row cultivator
I am growing 25 acres of new crop this year, weed control is challenging so looking for an interview cultivator. As no-one grows veggies this far north on scale I have little knowledge need a 6 row 45 cm spacing. Not sure whether it's rotary or tine front or rear mounted would like to mount on...- beltbreaker
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- beet cereals cultivator fat hen grass groundsel harrow mayweed mounted online osr rtk sandy weed control
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- Forum: Machinery
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What should the replacement for SFI look like?
SFI unravelling as the policy makers realise food might be in short supply and as of yesterday (25th March) not taking land out of food production is suddenly important to the government. Is it important to the population as a whole to have home grown food production subsidised? What should SFI...- topground
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- application beans bedding beef break crops calves carbon carrots cereals dairy defra diesel direct drilling drilling drought elms environmental ewes fertiliser flooding forage forecast fungicides glyphosate grass grassland grazing harvest hedge herbal herbal ley lambing lambs land agents landowner landowners maintenance maize management market milk organic osr pesticide pesticides plough position potatoes poultry premium pulses roots rpa sam2 security seed sfi sheep silage soya spring bean stress sustainable farming technology weather wheat yields
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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SFI - What % have or where you going to taking out of production?
Going off the back of the recent news from Defra and reading the current thread about it it would be interesting to see exactly how much land people where actually considering taking out of production. Thers a lot complaining about not being able to enter more than 25% into the 6 options that...- Phil P
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- agronomist ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 application beans beef beet break crop break crops buffer calving cattle cereals corteva cpd defra direct drill direct drilling dressing drilling environmental establishment fertiliser grass grassland grazing harrow harvest health hedge herbal herbal ley igl1 igl2 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm4 lambing legumes levy maize malting management market milk num1 num2 num3 oats osr pesticide ploughing pollinator potatoes rpa ryegrass sam3 second wheat security seed sfi sheep silage soil health soil sampling soil test soil testing soil tests solar stress urea varieties weather wheat
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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SFI....FUBAR
starting a new thread so i can have a 'rant' sfi.....Fekked Up Beyond All Recognition what happens now?,,,,are we? 1/supposed to put 25% of land into conservation then take that money and subsidise food ergo putting it mr tesco's pocket? 2/ have 'bird cover entitlements' been created so...- spin cycle
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- accident ahl2 application break crop break crops buffer cattle cows crime defra drainage drilling environmental establishment financial grass grassland grazing harvest herbal herbal ley herbicide igl2 insurance ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 learning lig1 management manganese market milk num3 osr parts pollinator pollution rainfall rpa security seed sfi sheep silage stubble weather wheat winter wheat
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- Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
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New limits to SFI.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ensures-food-production-remains-primary-purpose-of-farming- Yale
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- accident ahdb ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 analysis application bank account beans bedding beef biodiversity blackgrass boom bovine break crop break crops brother btt buffer calf calves carbon carrots cattle cereals chickens cover crop cover crops cultivate cultivating dairy death defra development diesel direct drilling disease drainage dressing drilling drills ear tag elms environmental establishment ewes family farmyard fertiliser fertility financial fire flock fodder forage forecast fuel gate glyphosate grain store grass grass leys grassland grassweed grazing groundswell handling harvest health health and safety hedge herbal herbal ley hoof horsch hrw1 igl1 igl2 injury insecticide insurance ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 irrigation lambs land agents landowner landowners legumes lifeline lig1 lig2 liming maintenance maize management market markets methane milk natural capital nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients oilseed oilseed rape online organic organic matter osr overdraft parasites parts peat pesticide pesticides pests pincer plough pollinator position potato potatoes premium range rover rapeseed red tractor repair reseed residual resilient robotic rpa ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite security seed sequestration sfi sheep silage soil carbon soil health storage stores storm stress stubble sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive telehandler trading urea variable rate variety velcourt weather weed control wheat winter wheat worms yielding yields
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Blackgrass nearly heading
Doesn’t look far off sticking out a seed head? -
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Spring drilling
Anyone managed to grab bits? I grabbed some real light bits but any clay and it’s a wet shitty mess. Not sure when to throw the towel in and go for sfi- willy
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- adblue agronomist beans beet boots carbon cattle cereals children claydon combi coulters cover crop cows cultivation cultivator death disc drilling drills drought family fertiliser fertilizer fire fodder fodder beet forage forecast foxtrot fungicide grass grassland grazing hail harrow harvest harvesting herbal herbal ley herbicide horsch lambs laureate maize malting manganese mounted mzuri nettles nitram oats osr overdraft peas pgr plough ploughing propino quad rain gauge rear tyres roots ryegrass sandy seed seedbeds sfi sheep sprayer spring beans stubble t0 t1 tillage topdown tractor tyres transport urea valtra varieties weather weed control wheat yields
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- Forum: Cropping
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Volunteer OSR in a herbal ley
Putting some MOP on a couple herbal leys this afternoon and there's quite a few volunteers mainly behind the combine. It's two years ago that it was in OSR. What to do about it? Top them as they are coming up to flower? Would rolling put them quiet? I want to mow the fields for silage ideally. -
Inhibitors for Urea (solid or liquid) for applications from 1st April
just a reminder to make sure your orders are in and if not your paperwork is in order Dont want anyone falling foul of the red tractor policing unit as you know they will be clipboards at the ready with eyes on the forecast for lack or rain etc God help anyone that has a RT Audit coming up in...- graham mc
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- application calcium cattle crusher dairy diesel fertiliser foliar forecast grain store grass grassland harvest hse liquid fertiliser maize milk nitrogen nroso oilseed oilseed rape osr pesticide red tractor slurry sprayer stubble urea weather
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Spring wheat seed?
After failing to plant some of my winter wheat land, I’m still looking for 4 tons of spring wheat seed. I realise that it’s pretty late now to be trying to source some but is there anyone out there who’s got some for sale? My farm’s on the Hereford/Glos. border.