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  1. 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
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  2. 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...
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    • Forum: Tenant Farming, Subsidies, BPS & Legal Issues
  3. bobk

    Sowing 2023

    Aside from OSR , bet someone is planting wheat or barley , too wet here at the mo
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    • Replies: 92
    • Forum: Agricultural Matters
  4. Laggard

    Winter Beans

    Never grown them before, recovering OSR grower. Which is a good winter variety and what seed rate if ploughing or Claydon drilled please? Any other advice welcome.
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    • Replies: 94
    • Forum: Cropping
  5. CPM RSS

    Suppressing burgeoning slug populations

    Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine With soil moisture levels high this summer, accurate application of product is the key to controlling burgeoning slug populations, urges a molluscicide expert. This includes the calibration of spreading equipment, says Adama’s Andy Bailey. “Wet...
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  6. TFF

    Principles of autumn reseed

    UK farmers embark on a crucial agricultural practice that is pivotal to the success of their livestock management and forage production: autumn reseeding. This is one of the most cost-effective on-farm investments. It involves establishing new pasture or fodder crops during autumn to ensure a...
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  7. 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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  8. B

    OSR this year ?

    So is Osr still part of your plan, with some decent rain around conditions good. Is osr worthwhile, bit weary of slugs and csb...
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    • Forum: Cropping
  9. 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...
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    • Forum: Sustainable Farming Incentive
  10. redsloe

    Companion cropping in wheat.

    Any ideas what might survive a pre em on wheat? OSR volunteers may suffice on some but what else? Is there anything or do we have to risk missing the pre em?
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    • application barley beans cereals cover crop cover crops defra drilling environmental glyphosate grass grassweeds harvest ipm ipm3 mayweed mounted osr pests pre-em rpa rye ryegrass sam2 seed seeding sfi slugs variety wheat
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    • Forum: Cropping
  11. casemx 270

    Chopping Straw

    We are chopping wheat straw and plenty of it apart from the organic matter return what value does this have?
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    • Forum: Cropping
  12. steveR

    Westerwold advice?

    I didn't want to hijack the current thread on a similoiar topic. I am going to have 10-12ha of S Oat stubble that is earmarked for Bumblebird mix next Spring. (Not CS or SFI) In the past I have been very happy to drill some of the "spring sown) mix in the Autumn and have an early start on some...
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    • Forum: Livestock & Forage
  13. skye @ bofin

    Movement patterns of the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) in an arable field 2023-07-31

    Movement patterns of the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) in an arable field John Ellis, Natalia Petrovskaya, Emily Forbes, Keith F.A. Walters & Sergei Petrovskii* Summary We report the results of an experiment on radio-tracking of individual grey field slugs in an arable field and...
  14. skye @ bofin

    Movement patterns of the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) in an arable field

    skye @ bofin submitted a new resource: Movement patterns of the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) in an arable field - Scientific results by Ellis et al., 2020. Read more about this resource...
  15. skye @ bofin

    Field experiments demonstrating that slug patches are present in all arable fields. 2023-07-31

    Stability of Patches of Higher Population Density within the Heterogenous Distribution of the Gray Field Slug Deroceras reticulatum in Arable Fields in the UK Emily Forbes , Matthew Back, Andrew Brooks, Natalia B. Petrovskaya, Sergei V. Petrovskii, Tom Pope and Keith F.A. Walters,* Summary...
  16. skye @ bofin

    Development and use of RFID implants to track slugs and first evidence for patches. 2023-07-31

    Locomotor behaviour promotes stability of the patchy distribution of slugs in arable fields: Tracking the movement of individual Deroceras reticulatum Emily Forbes, Matthew A Back, Andrew Brooks, Natalia B Petrovskaya, Sergei V Petrovskii, Tom W Pope and Keith FA Walters* Summary: The...
  17. skye @ bofin

    Development and use of RFID implants to track slugs and first evidence for patches.

    skye @ bofin submitted a new resource: Development and use of RFID implants to track slugs and first evidence for patches. - An academic paper by Forbes et al., 2020. Read more about this resource...
  18. skye @ bofin

    Sustainable management of slugs in commercial fields 2023-07-31

    Summary Slug damage to cereal crops in the UK caused primarily by the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) is of increasing concern to farmers following removal of methiocarb from the market and stewardship guidelines introduced for metaldehyde. This study assesses whether the discontinuous...
  19. skye @ bofin

    Sustainable management of slugs in commercial fields

    skye @ bofin submitted a new resource: Sustainable management of slugs in commercial fields - An academic paper published by Harper Adams University (Forbes et al., 2017). Read more about this resource...
  20. Northantsplants

    CEREAL KILLERS podcast

    Hi We have just launched a new podcast. Each week Cereal Killers does a deep dive on a different arable crop challenge. We will cover every pest, disease, and growing problem faced by arable farmers. Click the link below to access CEREAL KILLERS from your podcast app of choice...
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