pesticides

  1. skye @ bofin

    Webinar Discussions

    This thread will consist of questions asked during our webinars! Please do get involved and answer any questions you believe you have the answer to. We also encourage you to ask any questions of your own and get involved that way :)
    • skye @ bofin
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    • Forum: The Slug Circle
  2. Corteva Updates

    Fostering the use of biocontrol solutions in the EU

    Fostering the use of biocontrol solutions in the EU Now more than ever, European farmers need a wide range of tools to protect their crops from pest and disease pressure. Climate change is further exacerbating those issues at a time when we need to produce more sustainably. Policy initiatives...
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  3. E

    Should we be worried about pesticides on food?

    Should we worry both as consumers and producers? Glyphosate on oats is the obvious one.Recently highlighted by tim Spector on one of his zoe podcasts. Do we know if glyphosate is toxic in any way. Is it messing with our microbiome? Also as a strawberry grower I am well aware of the very short...
    • einstein
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    • agronomist anthelmintics antibiotics aphids beans beef beet blight boots bydv carbon cereals children cultivation dairy death diquat docks dressing drilling drone environmental family fertiliser fertility fire fungicide fungicides glyphosate grass handling harvest harvesting health herbal herbicide hse immune insecticide insecticides learning market milk minerals moddus monsanto mrl nitrogen nutrition oats oilseed oilseed rape operator orchard organic osr parts performance pesticide pesticides pig pollution potatoes poultry ppe premium rainfall rapeseed red tractor roundup rust seed seed treatment sfi sheep soya sprayer spraying storage supplement technology thistlex trailed sprayer triazole variety weather wheat wild oats wormers
    • Replies: 144
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  4. steveR

    River Lugg - Revisited? Another river...

    See the EA and BBC are having another meltdown over some river bank maintenance... Need one every year or so. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66893750 Dave must be having orgasms... :rolleyes:
    • steveR
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    • Replies: 147
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  5. Agriland RSS

    Research into long-term impacts of regenerative agriculture

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A set of long-term experiments will quantify the exact impact of regenerative agriculture from all perspectives. The work will be undertaken by staff at Rothamsted Research based in the UK. Significantly, initial results suggest that techniques, such...
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    • barley biodiversity drilling environmental fertiliser health nutrition organic organic matter pesticides ploughing regenerative agriculture tillage variety wheat yields
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    • Forum: News, PR, Shows and Events
  6. Stephensonlouis

    AHL2 - Winter Bird Food

    Has anyone ever autumn established SFI AHL2 after a crop off winter wheat, grown fast seeding crops such as mustard and then gone into a spring barley late March early April? Probably a good reason why it isn’t being done!
    • Stephensonlouis
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    • ab8 agrii agronomist agronomists agronomy ahdb ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 analysis application avatar barley beans beef beet biodiversity blackgrass boots break crop break crops buffer buying group bydv carbon carrots cattle cereals children clamp claydon cleavers co2 combi combo corteva cover crop cover crops cultivate cultivation cultivator dairy death defra desiccation development diesel direct drill direct drilling disc disease docks drilling drills drought environment agency environmental establishment ewes family farmdeals fat hen fertiliser fertilizer finance financial fire flail fodder fodder beet forage forecast fuel fungicide gate gleam glyphosate grain store grass grass leys grass weed grassland grassweeds grazing groundsel harvest harvesting health hedge herbal herbicide hoof insecticide insecticides insurance integrated pest management ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 knight kuhn lamma landowners learning legumes levy loader loader bucket maize management market mayweed milk miscanthus mower natural capital nfu mutual nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients nutrition oats ofc oilseed oilseed rape organic organic matter osr parts peas peaty performance pesticide pesticides pests pig platform plough ploughing pollinator pollution poppy potato potatoes pulses rapid red tractor renewal reseed residual roots roundup rpa rural payments agency rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 sandy satellite savings second wheat seed seedbeds seeding seedling sequencing sfi sheep silage slug slugs slurry software soil health soil test sprayer spraying spring beans storage stores stress stubble su sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive t3 teat thistle thistles triticale urea varieties variety water logging weather weaving weed control wheat wild oats winter wheat worms yielding yields
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  7. yellow belly

    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Starting a thread with solutions to application please keep it to practical solution there are other threads for rants and complaints
    • yellow belly
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    • agronomist agronomists agronomy ahl2 ahl3 ahl4 analysis application barley beans beef beef cattle blackgrass boots break crops brother buffer carbon carbon capture cattle cereals cleavers combi cover crop cover crops cultivating dairy death deere defra digital direct drill disc drainage dressing drilling drought environmental establishment family fertiliser fertility fertilizer financial flail fodder forage fuel fungicides gate glyphosate gps grass grass leys grass weed grassland grassweed grazing harvest harvesting health hedge herbal herbicide hoof horsch horticulture hrw1 hrw2 hrw3 igl3 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 lambing lambs lig1 lig2 maintenance maize management mapping market milk nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients oats online operator orchard organic organic matter osr paddock peas peat pesticide pesticides plough ploughing pollinator poultry pre-em renewal reseed roots rpa rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite security seed seeding sfi sheep slug slug pellets slugs soil assessment soil health soil sampling soil test soil testing sprayer storage supplement sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology testing thistles triticale turnout varieties variety weather weed control wheat wild oats woodland yields
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  8. 4

    sfi you can now apply

    5.45 am this morning rec email from defra saying as youve registered your interest you can now start your application. ok thinks me will try . First thing to do will be go get some more ink and a couple of reams of printer paper as will have to download the 40 pages of the new guidance of how...
    • 4course
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    • agronomist agronomists ahl2 ahl3 aphids application barley beans beef beet biodiversity blackgrass break crop brome buffer bydv carbon carbon capture cattle cereals combi cover crop cover crops cultivation death defra dff diesel digital diquat direct drill direct drilling disc docks drainage drift drilling drought elms environmental establishment fertiliser fertilizer finance financial fire fodder forecast fuel fungicides gate gates glyphosate gps grain store grass grass leys grassland grassweed grassweeds grazing harrow harvest harvesting hedge herbal herbicide hoof hrw1 hrw2 hrw3 igl1 igl2 igl3 insecticide insecticides ipm ipm1 ipm2 ipm3 ipm4 lambs learning legumes liberator lig1 maize management mapping market methane milk mor1 nematode nematodes nettles nitrogen num1 num2 num3 nutrients nutrition oats oilseed oilseed rape organic osr parts peas pesticide pesticides pests pig platform plough ploughing pollinator pollution poultry premium reseed residual roots roundup rpa rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 satellite seed seeding sfi sheep silage slugs software soil sampling soil test spraying spring beans storage stress stubble sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive technology thistles tillage trading training triticale varieties variety vra weather weed control wheat wild oats winter wheat woodland yields
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    • Forum: Tenant Farming, Subsidies, BPS & Legal Issues
  9. Grass And Grain

    BFU draft correspondence to AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds.

    Draft letter to AHDB C&O Council from BFU. BFU members, please see this thread within BFU forums if you have any suggestions for amendments before we send it. https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/correspondence-to-ahdb-cereals-and-oilseeds.396711/ Copy of correspondence:- To: AHDB...
    • Grass And Grain
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    • ahdb animal feed barley brother cattle cereals drainage financial grain store grass levy malting management market pesticide pesticides pig potato premium red tractor registration storage trading weighbridge wheat
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  10. G

    Bps/sfi

    All this talk of no one taking up sfi how many can actually say they banked 100% of there bps and will be able to manage on zero sub going forward
    • Gedd
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    • abbey af agronomist ahl2 application barley beans beef beet biodiversity blackgrass break crop break crops buffer bydv calf caravan carbon cattle cereals co2 cover crop cover crops cows cultivations dairy death defra diesel direct drill direct drilling docks drainage dressing drift drilling electricity elms environmental establishment family fertiliser fertility finance financial fire flail flock forage fuel gate grass grassland grazing groundswell harvest haulage health hedge herbal hoof insecticide insecticides insurance ipm lambs legumes levy liming maintenance maize malting management market mcpa milk minerals msd num2 nutrients organic organic matter osr parts peat peatland pesticide pesticides pig platform plough ploughing pollinator potatoes poultry premium red tractor registration reseed resilient roots rpa ryegrass seed sequestration sfi sheep silage slurry software soil testing sprayer spring beans storage stress sustainability sustainable farming sustainable farming incentive swine technology thistle thistles tillage trading training tup umbilical varieties weather wheat winter wheat woodland yields
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  11. Danllan

    White Tailed Sea Eagle reintroduction to Wales

    Had a day out at the British Bird of Prey Centre today, a birthday treat for a small girl with a passion for owls. Had a chat with the staff about the eagles they had there and the discussion turned toward the imminent reintroduction of the White Tailed Sea Eagle to Wales. It is already back in...
    • Danllan
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    • beef biodiversity brother buffer chickens children family flooding gps grass lambing lambs lice parts pesticides pig sheep stress woodland
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  12. B

    Thistles

    I have. A lot of this taking over pasture what would the ground have to little of or to much of
    • bazza3034
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    • adjuvants agronomist application arylex barley boom cereals clopyralid compaction docks grassland grazing herbicide nettles pesticides potash quad roots seed sprayer spraying tank mixing thistle thistles thistlex triclopyr weather wheat
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  13. TFF

    Leguminose: Transforming a niche 2023-08-31

    Download PDF Intercropping, bi-cropping, companion cropping – call it what you like, but interest is increasing. An EU project aims to transform this from a niche to mainstream. CPM reports. By Mike Abram It’s perhaps unlikely a workshop about a bi-cropping project would have attracted nearly...
    • TFF
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  14. Agriland RSS

    140t of illegal pesticides seized in Brazil

    Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland Around 140t of imported pesticides have been seized by authorities in Brazil during the country’s largest ever operation targeting illegal pesticides. Between July 30 to August 21, Operation Ceres was carried out by Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and...
  15. D

    Dr Luke Evans MP, 'Buy British' initiative

    https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/fresh/mps-call-for-buy-british-sections-on-supermarket-websites/682475.article?utm_source=Daily%20News%20(The%20Grocer)&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-08-23&c=&cid=DM1092246&bid=185820223
    • delilah
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    • beef defra family fertiliser financial fire grass health hilux horticulture land rover nitrogen organic parts pesticides pig red tractor rust savings sell my livestock toyota weather
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  16. Precision AG RSS

    Australian AgTech Start Up Flux Robotics Developing Precision Sprayer and Mechanical Weeder

    Written by Matt Hopkins from Precision Ag A local AgTech start-up is revolutionizing the South Australian agriculture industry by reducing the reliance on pesticides, reports […] The post Australian AgTech Start Up Flux Robotics Developing Precision Sprayer and Mechanical Weeder appeared first...
  17. CPM RSS

    Slugs: How ferric phosphate became a biocontrol success

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF As wet conditions push slug pressure into the red, many will unknowingly be reaching for a biological control to protect their broadacre crops. CPM explores the evolution of ferric phosphate into the reliable crop protection product it is...
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  18. D

    Even I'm shocked by 50's farming

    Great clips of 1950's farming. Parents talked about similar but I thought it was just them who were behind. Amusing shots of the spraying, no gloves, no mask, no cab, spraying herbicide with the stock in the field & the very optimistic narrator. In that period machines must have been obsolite...
    • Devil's advocate
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    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  19. Grass And Grain

    NUM3 - Legume Fallow, now rotational

    Latest SFI update has now given option for NUM3 Legume Fallow to be rotational. See screenshot of the guidance. Non-rotated we have to establish within 13 months of agreement start date, so say we start agreement 1st Sept 2023, then we'd need to establish by 31st Aug '24, then leave it there...
    • Grass And Grain
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    • ahl1 ahl2 ahl3 application baling barley beans beet blackgrass boom break crop break crops cereals cover crop cows defra direct drilling drilling drought environmental establishment farmdeals financial fodder forage glyphosate grass grassland grassweed grassweeds groundsel harvest harvesting herbal herbicide igl2 insecticide insecticides insurance ipm ipm3 ipm4 legumes liability maize malting natural capital nettles nitrogen num3 oats osr parts peas pesticides plough residual rpa rye ryegrass sam1 sam2 sam3 sandy seed sfi silage slug slugs spraying spring beans storm stubble thistles triticale varieties weather weed control wheat wild oats winter wheat
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  20. Agriland RSS

    UK to investigate potential for vertical farms in space

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A project centred on developing vertical farms fit for space exploration has received a research grant of up to £75,000 from the UK Space Agency. The project will be led by research and development company Vertical Future and result in the...
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