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  1. CPM RSS

    Spring cropping: Spring saviours?

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With wet weather hammering autumn-sown crops and ground travel remaining limited, spring planting may seem more appealing than ever. CPM looks at different options. By Janine Adamson and Rob Jones The Met Office first started naming...
  2. Zippy768

    Osr and Parsley Piert

    Loads of Parsley piert covering the ground of the osr. Would prefer to just go in with Astrokerb in a while but has no information on control of Piert. Being suggested to use Belkar now, but that will just add another cost. Will likely go in with Kerb regardless. Anybody had experience of the...
  3. Bigjon44

    Mayweeds!!!!

    Seem to be more of a problem every year around this time.what are people using to take them out or would a higher rate of stomp/picona in autumn be more effective?
  4. CPM RSS

    Catching up with the fly

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Arguably the biggest cause of financial losses in vining peas, bean seed fly can also decimate beans, but little is known of this pest’s behaviour and there’s no chemistry to curtail it. CPM investigates research putting this fly under the...
  5. Chris F

    Arable Soil Farmer of the Year - A farm walk with David Miller

    Arable Soil Farmer of the Year - A farm walk with David Miller Written by Emma Adams on behalf of The Farm Carbon Toolkit The second in our series of farm walks was with David Miller in Hampshire. This year’s Arable Soil Farmer of the Year, David is keen to demonstrate how a regenerative...
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    Heptad of new pulses for 2023

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF With growing interest in pulse crops, breeders have been working hard to bring forward varieties with better agronomic traits. CPM looks at the additions to PGRO’s Descriptive List, which was unveiled last month. By Lucy de la Pasture...
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    Bigger worries than weeds

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Moisture has been the defining difference between healthy and forward oilseed rape crops and others falling foul of cabbage stem flea beetle. CPM looks at how weed management should be tailored to crop growth this autumn. By Melanie...
  8. Bigjon44

    Winter bean herbicides

    What will folks be using this autumn for bean herbicide? Ryegrass and wild oats problematic fields
  9. Breckland Boy

    Beet '22

    Made a start drilling today. Direct into an ex 2 year ley. Reasonably confident that it won't blow.
  10. Corteva Updates

    Weed pressure could increase in south east following dry spell

    Weed pressure could increase in south east following dry spell A prolonged period of dry weather coupled with a significant switch to spring cropping is causing weed control programmes to change for farmers in south east England. Torrential winter rain led to a huge shift away from winter...
  11. Corteva Updates

    Weed pressure could increase in south east following dry spell

    Weed pressure could increase in south east following dry spell A prolonged period of dry weather coupled with a significant switch to spring cropping is causing weed control programmes to change for farmers in south east England. Torrential winter rain led to a huge shift away from winter...
  12. Bigjon44

    WW pre em

    What's everyone going with at pre em this autumn? Usual suspects liberator and picopro/max? Does defy added to the mix help with grass weed??
  13. A

    Upland Offer - "Assessment of Eligibility for Permanent Grassland"

    Only a hobby farmer with 40 acres, was going to apply for a Upland Offer based on permanent grassland and haymaking supplement with hedge keeping as a second option. However just flicking through the various guides etc and came across this beauty regarding record keeping Countryside Stewardship...
  14. tomildinio

    Sunflower safe herbicides

    Pre emerge didn't work of pdm as was too dry. Too hot and dry for kerb and that didn't work. Now have a lovely crop of fat hen, sow thistle, chickweed and knotweed. Graminicides are OK but need something for broadleaves. Was reading in Canada they us salsa, the osr herbicide? Anyone any ideas...
  15. F

    End of the Road for Small Livestock Farms?

    I buy store cattle off some small local farms and always try to help them out with bull hire or dehorning and TB testing. Yesterday when I went to see some yearlings on one of these farms that is only around 50 acres of old established permanent grass and a reasonable shed, the owners said that...
  16. ffukedfarmer

    Weed identification please

    Got this in a struggling new ley
  17. Bigjon44

    Blw control in spring barley

    Evening all Whats the best option for mayweed and ivy speedwell control in spring barley. Conditions very dry and barley stressed!!
  18. czechmate

    Cleavers

    I have a small patch of oats which due to low rate liberator have no weeds👍, except cleavers. I don’t have a starane type product but I do still have a lot of MCPA and 24d which I mix for grass fields. Would on of those or a mix kill cleavers? The labels only talk about perennial weeds🤷‍♂️ tia
  19. teslacoils

    Spring ryegrass herbicide options

    I dont really pay much attention to ryegrass herbicides but will need some for this wheat after stewardship. Best option for ryegrass, ideally not Atlantis style, and what conditions and timings? Wheat had 0.6 liberator plus avadex preem. Do any of the mixes do blws too or better options for...
  20. Zippy768

    Winter Beans Pre-Em

    So Blackgrass, Cleavers and Charlock are the main issues. For Blackgrass, Kerb is the only effective option. And needs to be pre-em? (Blackgrass isnt awful) How well would a Nirvana work on Cleavers? Could I get away with dropping the rate of Nirvana and boosting with some straight Pend and...
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