slugs

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a 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:

So if I went for 3 years in the same spot, surely I could drill it in year one, and every year after just cultivate it once and the volunteer seed return would be enough to grow a crop for the next year and so on. Making a significant saving on seed costs. What are your thoughts

Country diary: Winter on the farm isn’t meant to be like this | Sarah Laughton Written by Sarah Laughton from the Guardian Long Dean, Cotswolds: It’s been so mild that we still have midges, and so rainy that the ground is bubbling with water in places A seasoned farmer told me recently that...

Not quite sure where to put this so move it if it’s in the wrong place… I do a reasonable amount of shooting, clays and pigeons/crows (unfortunately not pheasants as nobody has invited me on a shoot and I’m far too cheap to pay). For a little while now I’ve been trying to save the spent...

Hi all I'm new to the forum and want to know the best way to go about renting land I'm wanting to grow my own food and raise a few animals, ideally I'd rent from a farmer who's not using all of the land? But how do I go about finding a farmer in the first place? I'm in Stoke-on-Trent if anyone...

I paid for fodder beet upfront to help someone out with money issues, when the time came for it to be lifted it was rotten, where do I stand?

Seen this video, now the case could be mapped out more but the difference here is vast so got me thinking is the agco vario far more power hungry than the nh cvt?

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Orion FT has said it welcomes the government’s Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) providing an income of £45/ha to farmers taking an integrated pest management (IPM) approach. Biostimulant specialist James Kennedy of Orion FT said these...

I’ve discovered in a publication from my local wildlife trust that there are such things as snail killing flies, some of which live in grasslands and kill slugs as well. It’s the larval stage that parasitises the snails and slugs apparently. Are these worth investigating as part of possible...

Targeting applications of fertiliser and other inputs to crop requirements has become far more common with advances in digital mapping and precision technology, but when it comes to slug control, broad-acre defence still rules. Times are changing though. With a dramatically depleted molluscicide...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine A new guide helping farmers and agronomists to approach slug management from a different perspective has been launched. Strategies Leading to Improved Management and Enhanced Resilience Against Slugs (SLIMERS) is a three-year £2.6M research project...

Hi all, Interesting observation after assessing the traps today. I applied sluxx on friday just gone and have found some pellets under the lids. Our stocks slug pelleter is good, but not that good! Has anybody else seen this before? I'm guessing this has been moved here by a slug to dine on...

Completing the 5th slug count this weekend. Found the monitoring / data collection process to be useful in understanding how applications of molluscicides have had an impact on populations. The more you know the more you can manage. From monitoring weekly you could certainly see % kill with...

Does anyone use or have recommendations of a Good reasonably priced Night vision Scope?

Might be the driest week since October here. What seed rate on medium heavy land spring tined in please? Anybody with a KRM M2 24 meter know the setting they used?

Hi all, Been monitoring the traps for a couple weeks now after taking over this project from a colleague. What is the average number of slugs you people are finding in each trap? and how many traps are you finding populated? So far I am finding a maximum of 1 GFS in a trap, with approx 10%...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland It has been estimated that cereal growers in Northern Ireland have succeeded in getting no more than 50% of the ground earmarked for winter crops actually planted out. “This is a very rough figure”, said Robin Bolton, a senior advisor with the College...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Farmers nationwide have started trials to help develop new precision slug control solutions. Strategies Leading to Improved Management and Enhanced Resilience Against Slugs (SLIMERS) is a three-year £2.6M research project involving more than 100 UK...

I gave up second wheats a good few years ago due to grassweed control, lack of!, thought I'd give it another go as the farm is cleaner and now running a disc direct drill, flooding aside, it looks terrible, what have people learnt with DD second wheat, as I'm now hearing advice along the lines...

Is anybody else observing the slugs bringing pellets into the traps with them? I have seen several which have been bought in (with several slugs in the trap, so no immediate owner) and even found one slug tucking into one under the trap (?!). Are we missing a trick here with slug control? 1/2...