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Can maize shrug off its reputation of being a much-scrutinised crop that damages the environment and poses a flooding risk? CPM joined growers at Severn Trent’s Stoke Bardolph AD site to learn how to maximise yields in a sustainable way...
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After a season that presented a combination of weather conditions that left growers unable to act, and then chasing their tails CPM takes a look at how wheat crops performed and what the main issues were.
By Melanie Jenkins
A rather...
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A new broad spectrum fungicide is about to appear on the scene which should growers deal with a range of crop diseases that were prevalent in the last growing season due to the favourable weather conditions last Spring and Autumn.
For...
Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland
The grain harvest in Brazil for the 2023/24 season could reach an estimated 288 million tonnes (317.5 million tons), according to official figures.
The first survey of the 2023/24 harvest by Conab, the Brazilian government’s food supply and statistics...
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Following optimum wet conditions, slug numbers are high and pose a particular threat to newly sown cereal crops, warn experts.
Populations have increased significantly after a wet summer and for many, continued moist conditions throughout September...
Anyone else normally drilled up by now and not started.
Ditches are down and water is getting away but it's sitting on top and drains have been jetted last year etc so they should be fine.
It's like it's sat on top but there must be 6 inch of water to plough in more in places
West Lancashire...
As anyone noticed they are worse this year ,went to look at a fied last night you could hardly put your foot down for them and its been pelleted 3 weeks ago , my mate who does a lot of pelleting says its bad near him ,Cardigan Penbroke
Few bales bobbing about due to flash floods and high rainfall in Scotland whilst sun loungers and ice cream are the go to thing in the south!
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Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland
September was the warmest September on record according to the latest data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission.
It routinely...
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Winter wheat varieties with a track record of delivering consistent performance over different growing seasons have again yielded well, despite the year’s challenging weather.
That’s the message from Syngenta’s Kathryn Hamlen, who says arable crops...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has confirmed that the 2023 grain harvest in Great Britain (GB) is coming to an end, from a cereals perspective.
Only a few crops of very late spring barley and oats in Scotland and the...
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By Barbara Collins
Glastry Farm is a specialised dairy farm which extends to 247ac owned, as well as a further 190ac leased at Kircubbin, on the Ards Peninsula of Co. Down.
The farming enterprise is run by Gareth and Liz Taylor, the sixth generation...
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