Bit confused just been listening to the woman from QMS on the fed by farmers podcast and she was talking about halal slaughter being stunned first when I always thought halal slaughter protocol was that it wasn't allowed to be stunned first and had to have it's throat slit and hung to bleed out...
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Ok, so I’ve been invited to go and do some long range shooting at Eskdalemuir range in July (range is over a mile, 1750m ish).
The lad I’m going with said I can borrow one of his rifles but it also looks like I’ll get some deer stalking later in the year so I’m considering trying to get a...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Agronomist, Richard Owens, has confirmed that continuing wet conditions are hampering cereal growers form getting on with critically important field work.
“Some areas were hit that little bit harder with the weather than others. As a rule of thumb...
Finally started monitoring my trial today after it was set up by @Clive_Blacker last weekend didnt find many slugs, & not entirely sure i have grey field slugs. Harvested a few from the slimery, but again, all a bit quiet
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...
In the last two nights there has been four attacks around the village. Ewes and even fornight old lambs have been shot and left in the fields. A couple at each farm, but the same each time with some being shot in the head and some being the body.
Spoke to the police about it today and there is...
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Amid a constant battle with declining chemistry and catchy weather windows, including an adjuvant in the spray tank is proving essential for one Wiltshire spray operator. CPM finds out more.
By Charlotte Cunningham
At Clarendon Park...
If you've entered into SFI but potentially cant meet aims due to weather difficulties / ground conditions , what options do you have ?
I've entered SFI with a start date of Feb this year and one of the options was no insecticide (IPM4) which is planned for fields coming spring barley. The...
Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine
After high autumn slug pressure and a mild, wet winter, growers are encouraged to assess and manage risk of damage to spring cereals.
Keith Walters, professor of invertebrate biology and pest management at Harper Adams University, says slug...
Looking at getting a rake for this autumn, using the FETF grant. It looks like some of them come with discs on the front as an option. It will be working in front of a tined direct drill and as well as spreading out the residual straw I am interested in the fact that it may chop the straw up a...
As part of my work on the SLIMERS project, I spent last week traveling around the South of England meeting our slug sleuths and visiting their farms. Following this successful trip, I thought the slug circle would appreciate an insight into the trip:
Day 1
Farms visited in Bedfordshire and...
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Managing crop nutrition is a nuanced subject at the best of times but add in net zero goals and it becomes a whole new ballgame. CPM explores how crop nutrition can go hand-in-hand with environmental goals.
By Melanie Jenkins and Rob...
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The twin aims of the project are firstly to develop a soil health sensor which provides in-field measurement of microbial diversity and fungal:bacterial ratio. This will help the project fulfil the second aim to deliver a platform comprising on-farm soil/root health testing tools...
I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...
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we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:
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