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...
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...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
The dramatic increase in the cost of machinery ownership over the last few years has left farmers with little enthusiasm to continue buying, despite the slight but encouraging rise in commodity prices.
Machinery manufactures are obviously well aware of...
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...
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...
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Smart technology in agriculture is progressing at a rate of knots with new innovations promising to optimise workflow, streamline processes and utilise every ounce of data available. CPM digs into some of these unfolding technologies.
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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...
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Although it’s been a while since the loss of desmedipham, finding a similar level of annual broadleaf weed control in sugar beet has proven quite the head-scratcher. However, the answer could lie in a specific type of adjuvant. CPM reveals...
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As Revystar XE enters its fifth season of use, CPM takes a deep dive into the active ingredients in it to understand the journey so far and the science behind the product’s consistent performance.
By Janine Adamson
Launching a new plant...
What has changed, nothing we were all moaning about it when it came out , and we are still discussing options 24 years later, come on give us an option stop just moaning!
Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland
A new study published today (Wednesday, February 28) in the Journal of Applied Ecology has shown that bugs such as, hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds play an important role in keeping Britain’s apples healthy.
The research team, led by the University...
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
Hi all,
We are a high school research team looking into potential ways of improving farm run-off treatments and we were wondering about the runoff systems on your farms, where does it lead and how does waste water get transported around?
PS. Hypothetically speaking, in the stream coming from...
Read this leader in today’s Times … especially the sentence I have highlighted
Aren’t you delighted that not only has the cost of living taken money out of ordinary folks pockets and put it in to ours but we are the source of all Britain’s pollution woes (or so you’d think reading this guff)...
Defra officials buried analysis showing dire financial prospects for hill farmers
Exclusive: FOI request reveals fears many would sell up if they saw assessment of post-Brexit farming payments scheme
Government officials have buried an analysis of the financial prospects for some of the most...
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