soil testing

  1. CPM RSS

    OSR weed control: Smooth operator

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...
  2. CPM RSS

    Pushing Performance: Winning ways

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF 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...
  3. Agriland RSS

    Farmers encouraged to fully incorporate cover crops into soils

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Farmers are being encouraged to harness the full potential of cover crops by ensuring they are fully incorporated into soils this spring. Eastern product manager at Timac Agro UK, Adam Bartowski, said that, by doing so, soils will be more...
  4. Ffermer Bach

    Poultry, pollution and The River Wye

    How cheap chicken ran rampant across Britain Poultry farming boom blamed for housebuilding delays and turning rivers green Daniel Woolfson17 February 2024 • 12:00pm Related Topics Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Environment Agency, Chicken, Pollution, Farming...
  5. Ih885xl

    Soil test results

    Hi there been covered before but ofcourse each farm is different. Never had soil testing done for decades as only a small suckler farm but trying to get things more productive with the 60 acre we farm. I will be getting advice from the company who did the soil testing however I expect this to be...
  6. Environment Agency

    Environment Agency Q&A - Agricultural Regulations

    Welcome to the Environment Agency Q&A event on The Farming Forum. For the next two days, this thread will be open for questions for our team at the Environment Agency to answer farmers questions on agricultural regulations. The Environment Agency are aiming to engage with the community on the...
  7. banjo

    Are farmers missing a trick with this scheme debacle cos they could sell their own credits !

    Now I read this before somewhere and thought what a great idea, tell the welsh government to stick their schemes up their hole and just sell our carbon storage pasture credits in an open market to wealthier businesses looking to store carbon on pasture or whatever and only take the price we want...
  8. CPM RSS

    Applied Innovation: Prioritising margin over yield

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF In a year where cereal crops will be hungry thanks to suboptimal conditions, plus continued nervousness around conventional input prices and supply, interest in alternative products continues to rise. CPM learns how biostimulants can help...
  9. Bigsingle

    Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

    This is the number someone has come up with for the Welsh government for losses down to the new agriculture policy. Great news. Not.
  10. P

    SFI concerns

    Had a meeting with an agent about SFI. Thought it was worth the hours charge as she deals with this stuff day in day out. Anyway we put together a plan that will replace 75% of our SFP but she has two issues with the whole thing. The first is she thinks the money will run out which will reduce...
  11. D

    SFI for grassland dairy farm

    Finding SFI slightly confusing in terms of its scope and requirements especially for a predominantly grassland dairy farm which is geared towards production. 65 acres, two fields of pp approx 15 acres total, the rest temporary grass in roughly 5ac blocks reseeded on 6-7 year rotation, one 5ac...
  12. Foxcover

    Draft control and ploughing.

    Following on from a thread about mole ploughing, how many of you plough with draft control turned off? I’ve always ploughed with it off, not wanting to jack the plough out a bit through a tough patch just for a bit of extra grip, having a tractor properly ballasted and on top of the job.
  13. J

    What to do with 100 acres / 40 hectares - SFI??

    Hi We only have a small farm that until now the land 40 hectares was rented out to a local dairy farm for about £200/acre, it is all currently down in short term grass leys and they were claiming all the BPS. Is there any SFI options that would be better than this? I am waiting for a call back...
  14. paul&mandy

    Whole farm into SFI hedgerows

    I'm helping someone measure all the fields. There is about 130 fields to measure hedges. I'll be the 1 cutting and managing what and how it's cut. We have decided incremental trimming probably suites best so a light trim every year leaving 4inches every yr. Some might go every other yr. 1. When...
  15. Jackov Altraids

    Will SFI cause a cycle of boom & bust?

    The budget for SFI is the same as when SPS first started. It was about £100/ acre then, which would be worth about £55/ acre now. So if everybody that claimed BPS, claimed SFI on the same area as before, and on similar value options, that is what we would all get paid. This would probably not...
  16. N

    How often do you check the soil for iron & manganese? Any tips?

    Hi everyone I hope I haven't missed the forum. I've recently become part of a project that's trying to develop innovative micronutrient testing in agriculture, particularly focusing on iron and manganese. Our main goal is to enhance soil analysis and overall crop health. So, I'm super...
  17. B

    heavy rushes - plan of attack

    Hi - I'm looking for some advice. We have several fields that through neglect have built up dense rushes over the last 15-20 years. A couple were drained in the 1980's / 90's, one was not although does not seem overly wet. Soil PH around 5.6-5.8. P&K fine. Some although not all of the land may...
  18. D

    Do you calculate your farm carbon footprint?

    Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?
  19. Agriland RSS

    Farmers in NI receive estimates of carbon stored in their soils

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Soil analysis results and accompanying field maps have been distributed to farmers who took part in Northern Ireland’s largest baseline soil sampling programme. Full analysis results are now available for the 132,775 fields which were included in the...
  20. Direct Driller Magazine

    Covering Soils Event - 21st September

    Covering Soils Day - 21st Sept We ran the first in a series of Direct Driller days around cover crops, SFI options, agronomy decisions and compaction on the 21st September at TWB Farms in Staffordshire. It was a great day, with great local food provided by Untamed Grill. For all those who...
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