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Openfield Group has teamed up with Voltloader to trial fully electric trucks in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.
The partnership will see grain loads moved from Openfield member farm gates to consumer customers using an all-electric fleet, which is...
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With wet weather and flooding commonplace during the past few months, clubroot zoospores are at high risk of migration. CPM looks at the importance of crop husbandry and on-farm hygiene in preventing the spread of the disease and how this...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops specialist, Leigh McClean highlighted a number of priorities for arable farmers in Northern Ireland.
His advice reflects the prospects of high pressure building and the weather improving...
There’s talk about sfi seed mixes on making up your own seed mixes for the various options , would most of the seed merchants have the various components for doing this & any recommendations to source these ? Any ideas gratefully received .
We’ve always grown s barley for wholecrop, but last year‘s efforts were horrendous. Sodding wet spring (after dusty Feb/March), followed on by many weeks of no rain. Barley got sown late, established then gasped for water. None of it managed to get over 12 inches high.
This year’s heading the...
We had a small heap of linseed (4 or 5 tonnes) in the corner of the shed over winter and have just drilled some over the weekend, straight from the heap as it looked very clean (we like to take a scientific approach). Denny the drill-man said he had at least ten dead and mummified mice blocking...
We’ve always grown s barley for wholecrop, but last year‘s efforts were horrendous. Sodding wet spring (after dusty Feb/March), followed on by many weeks of no rain. Barley got sown late, established then gasped for water. None of it managed to get over 12 inches high.
This year’s heading the...
A wet autumn followed by a very wet spring means weeds are thriving and giving grassland farmers yet another problem to grapple with.
Many pastures were left unsprayed in the autumn as the wet weather set in, allowing grassland weeds to become more established than ever.
Ryan Came-Johnson...
It’s been a hell of a wet time. We have some seriously slumped soils.
What are people planning to do to alleviate the damage?
Leave it to natural processes?
Deep rooted cover crop?
Deeper loosening tine?
Plough?
A lot will depend on the weather this summer but just wondered what general...
What would Wolverine or Librax same chem one or the other with Elatus Era say 1 litre of each plus pgr, Clormaquat and some Trinaxapac Ethyl for aT1 application?
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With wet weather and flooding commonplace during the past few months, clubroot zoospores are at high risk of migration. CPM looks at the importance of crop husbandry and on-farm hygiene in preventing the spread of the disease and how this...
Genuine question, and I know that I'll get a thousand different answers.
What is a "standard" working day to you, or your staff, on your farm? How many hours?
On a run of the mill day - not lambing/calving/harvest/silage etc
For reference, I'm thinking 800ac, mixed beef/sheep/arable, modern...
baling
baling hay
beef
calf
calving
cattle
chainsaw
children
cvt
dairy
drilling
family
fendt
fertiliser
fire
forage
forecast
gas
harvest
harvesting
health
hedge
irrigation
lambing
maize
management
mart
milking
parts
ploughing
position
quad
repair
seed
sheep
silage
spraying
telehandler
weather
so Its looking like I’m not going to get all my
Spring barley in this year. What’s the best to plant end of April/may. Don’t mind if it’s to just graze lambs or to cut it.
wondered about vetch and cutting it then grazing lambs on it over the winter. Any better ideas?
Reports the 970 acre 'Sibleyback farm' on Bodmin has been sold to rewilders....£10 million to turn it into native woodland and bog.
Where does this all end?
As a farmers son, almost 40 I do feel stigmatised by my farming friends and family for actually wanting to go home in the evening and weekends to my family. Quite a few of the farmers I know work constantly (12-16) hours a day 7 days a week and do nothing else. Of course they talk they have...
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New malting barley varieties capable of producing more litres of alcohol per hectare could not only reduce the carbon footprint of beer and spirit production, but they could also deliver significant benefits for growers. CPM finds out...
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After years of decline in planted area, something is shaking up Group 3 and that something is Bamford – a new soft wheat variety with yields contending with the top performers plus numerous end market opportunities. CPM takes a deep dive...
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