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...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Satellite imagery will be an integral part of a bespoke algorithm, developed to predict vining pea yields at harvest.
‘PeaSat’ is a new project, centred on a collaboration between ADAS and the pea grower cooperative, HMC Peas.
The system will utilise...
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In this special edition of Pulse Progress, CPM explores how the development of a new modelling tool could revolutionise the forecasting of maturity and yield in vining peas.
By Charlotte Cunningham
Anyone who’s grown vining peas will...
I have a small 3 acre meadow/pasture which could do with ploughing down, i did a similar field right next to it a few years ago August time. Only problem was at the time it was quite dry and these fields are a little spongy/mossy on top so never made a great job of ploughing and it went straight...
Hoping for a bit of help and guidance.
We had a Nov- Dec malting barley contract that got partly collected in Feb. The December loads that we loaded had no issues. Some Feb loads failed for germination. Same barn, same land grown on. Rejected loads tested 99% germination at the feed house they...
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
Research conducted by Nottingham University has shown that treating beans and peas with a biostimulant seed treatment can improve germination by up to two days.
Although pulses have been in the spotlight recently due to a desire to find more...
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
Looking at a big trip to NZ. Going to be having one eye on moving there. Is there any way to have inland revenue accept some of expense as a business research trip?
Do we just have to call it holiday?
Can book farm viewings with estate agents etc. I'll probably see a lot of old Ford tractors...
Hello, i am a pasture manager / sheep worker from Saskatchewan, Canada. I care for approximately 3200 head of mixed ewes, that are brought to me from many different ranches, for about 6 months on 6240 ac of native prairie / mixed grasslands on what is know as "crown agriculture lands". During...
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...
Well ,I don’t normally post political views on FB but being as I commented on a Conservative “ Back British Farming “ post that has clearly been removed and has annoyed me, and shows they don’t like being criticised.
I thought I would basically post what I had posted on their page.
The...
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
UK pea and bean growers are invited to become ‘pulse pioneers’ and be paid to carry out on-farm trials which will contribute to ground-breaking research.
The Nitrogen Climate Smart (NCS) Project aims to facilitate the increase of pulse cropping from 5%...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Driving the use of biostimulants within production agriculture, has been the identification of bespoke bacteria (endophytes) with the ability to fix nitrogen (N) from the atmosphere.
The principles being played out are similar to those demonstrated...
friend asked today if it was ok to graze sheep on field beans , apparently they werent harvested last autumn and there is a crop there a foot or more high , will be with ewes pre lambing or hoggs , not done it myself , anyone else had to do it problems ?
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/sack-the-board-if-you-sack-me-says-red-tractor-boss
Can't say I disagree with him on that, fire the lot of them... Get some people in that care about the farmers they are supposed to be working for, not the supermarkets which they have decided to work for instead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68215777
I can think of two sprayer operators who got to early 60s but no longer with us, both with chemical related body conditions, is this a national wide scandal?
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
A pre-emergence residual herbicide for broadleaf weed control can now be applied in field beans and combining peas.
The authorisation for Emerger (aclonifen) will be a welcomed addition given the low number of pre-em herbicides currently available for...
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