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  1. TFF

    Field grain analysis can help determine the success of your fertiliser programme

    With harvest just beginning, now seems a sensible time to draw breath and assess the season before harvest gets in full swing followed in short order by establishing next year's crops. And what a season it's been. Yes, there have been weather events to talk about, especially the dry April and...
  2. Somerset Farmer

    Chopping Wheat Straw

    What is chopped wheat straw worth in p&k and at fertilizer prices as they are at the moment as opposed to baling it. TIA
  3. Badshot

    Alternatives to soyl

    I'm looking into alternatives to soyl for my variable everything package I currently have with them. Who's in the market for variable N,P,K, lime, seed, yield maps?
  4. M

    Looking For Work Self Employed, Shropshire

    24 year old self employed based in Wem, Shropshire. Looking for additional work mainly arable but have experience with beef cattle, sheep. I have experience with most cultivations, fertiliser spreading with variable rate, dribble bars, silage & hay (mowing, tedding/ raking) and general farm...
  5. shumungus

    Simple pH test

    Lab seems to have lost my soil samples, need to crack on with work and need to know pH of block of land. Have a calibrated optical pH meter for checking water for the chooks and was thinking is it just a matter of mixing some soil samples with distilled water and checking for a simple farmgate...
  6. Badshot

    SFI pilot

    Well I have had it with this now. Emails still aren't coming to me direct, so I am missing some fairly important ones I think. The amount of nonsensical rubbish coming out is overwhelming, there's nobody listening to us when we ask questions, utter shambles. The rewards do not add up at...
  7. CHAPs News

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
  8. CHAPs News

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
  9. CHAPs News

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm

    Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
  10. wold-topper

    iSoyl and KRM calibrator zurf

    Is anyone using the isoyl app and a KRM M35W spreader to do variable rate P&K? We have been using an old Amazone with amados control box but now need the wiring loom to connect up to the Calibrator Zurf control box, Our rep has left soyl and having no joy with the new guy!
  11. Z

    Soil sampling

    Who is best to use for soil sampling? Had SOYL do some a few years ago but due to be done again and I’m keen to do the organic matter testing but not sure if SOYL is the best ??
  12. C

    Soyl/iSoyl

    I am looking to buy into Frontier's Soyl/iSoyl, mainly to move towards applying liquid nitrogen at variable rates. Does anyone have any experience with this service? How well does it work? I have an Amazone UF-02 bought 1 year ago with an Amatron 4 screen, will a link up to this be seamless?
  13. Janet Hughes Defra

    Sustainable farming incentive details published today

    Morning all Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England. I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...
  14. Digester Man

    NIR Slurry Application

    Has anyone used NIR technology for slurry application? We are considering it for installation on our dribble bar, to monitor the nutrient being applied and help plan our chemical fertiliser applications around our digestate spreading in conjunction with our SOYL maps. I have seen several - JD...
  15. Janet Hughes Defra

    New Farming Investment Fund launched today

    Afternoon all - we've launched the farming investment fund - info here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farming-investment-fund Here's a blogpost explaining what's changed and how we've improved the scheme based on learning from previous schemes...
  16. chipchap

    Potato Price Tracker

    Now that the AHDB potato council has been kicked into touch, does the Forum have a place in providing a resource for price information?
  17. N

    straw price

    with the price of fert being where it is what price will straw need to be not to put the choppers in next year
  18. B'o'B

    YAGRO sell out to Frontier.

    Just had an email saying YAGRO have sold to Frontier. I've used YAGRO a lot for buying almost all my Ag chems, some Fert and a bit of fuel when in a hurry. Not sure how/if that side of it will work anymore, email says more about their data/pricing side of the business. How long can Frontier...
  19. Macsky

    Spreading gypsum on pasture

    Does anyone do this on grazing ground? We’ve got low to very low calcium levels here, think it would help. What kind of rates do you put it down at?
  20. CPM RSS

    Frontier announces virtual tours of 3D Thinking trial sites

    Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine After its debut in 2020, Frontier Agriculture is once again inviting growers to join a virtual tour of one of its 3D Thinking variety trial sites. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Across the 15 new videos, seed business development manager, Jim...
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