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Sprayed T1 on my wheat and it has scorched like hell mainly older leaf’s .Overlaps look terrible vimoy + Kestrel + 1ltr ccc + 0.15 moddus mix any ideas? So dis heartening and depressing when you see it 🤦🏻‍♂️

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

Not really a precision farming thread but mulling over options while spot spraying thistles with a quad mounted sprayer. Generally creating spirals around the field and repeatedly spraying some plants in error! Option two is to put the sprayer on a tractor with second person and walk along...

We have a 24m 3000l Knight Trailed Sprayer. Was spraying today, did 50acres with no problems. I was mid way through a field, switched off at the end of a run, went to the next run, put to spray but there was no spray pressure. The ramsay pressure is where it always is (3 bar) and I can...

Written by Matt Hopkins from Precision Ag The next phase of Greeneye’s expansion will see dozens more systems deployed this year, targeting the 200m acres of crops grown in the U.S. The post AI Precision Spraying Pioneer Greeneye Technology Raises $20M to Scale U.S. Operation appeared first on...

Growing fodder beet, going to put salt on at 400kg/ha (50% sodium). Question is, when do I put it on?

Ok, putting the Winter/Spring rainfall aside for a minute, is anyone else finding this a strange Spring? The local Reading University soil and air temperatures (link below) have been well above seasonal average, but I’m finding everything to be so slow to get away this year. We are now into the...

I re seeded a field last year and there's a lot of thistles growing on it, what's the best spray or way to get rid of them? It's a 10 acre field so might spot spray with knapsack

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Being left behind is a frustrating situation to be in, and while many countries have adopted crop spraying with drones the UK and the EU are yet to take this leap. CPM speaks to two firms that are advocating for the adoption of this...

Hi all, my winter barley never received a pre em and there is now meadow grass in areas of the field. Will anything touch it? Will need spraying for wild oats, will axial pro just knock the meadow grass and it will recover? Tia

Evening all, at work, we are looking for an accurate guidance, rtk or close, as we are drilling our own maize with a 3m powerharrow with a mounted maize drill. The tractors aren't guidance ready but a new one in the future will be so will be following a lightbar for now. We already have a...

I’m helping out a local contractor over the summer, driving his gear. What would the going rate per hour be now the minimum wage has gone up.

AMAZONE Ltd will again take the opportunity at Cereals 2024 to showcase kit that reflects the shifting trends in crop establishment. These shifting trends are also supported by government help through the SFI and grants available through the Farming Equipment Technology Fund. The Condor 12001-C...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The UK is seeing fewer and fewer ‘perfect’ spray days, so being ready to utilise any weather window that comes along is increasingly important. CPM speaks to a farm manager whose investment in a new self-propelled sprayer with pulse width...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops specialist, Leigh McClean highlighted a number of priorities for arable farmers in Northern Ireland. His advice reflects the prospects of high pressure building and the weather improving...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF As increasingly technical sprayers become mainstream in the market, the future of widespread spot spraying looks set. CPM pinpoints some of the latest technologically advanced products to hit the market for a flavour of what’s around the...

I've recently got a new bunning rear discharge muck spreader. I'm going to be spreading a couple of fields at a time with chicken muck and then ploughing it down so spreading will be stop start. Chicken muck is very acidic....or maybe is it alkaline? Anyway I want to keep the paint and spreader...

Hello, I have a sheep in milk and on her udder is a rash with some pimples with abscess that they will dry out . When one clears then I found another one. I am washing her with chloridex 4% ( diluted 1:10) soapy water, hand milking and spraying with colloidal silver after … Any more I can do? I...

Genuine question, and I know that I'll get a thousand different answers. What is a "standard" working day to you, or your staff, on your farm? How many hours? On a run of the mill day - not lambing/calving/harvest/silage etc For reference, I'm thinking 800ac, mixed beef/sheep/arable, modern...

Hi, is rape tge best drought hardy summer crop? I only feed dry silage in summer to weaners, its not great pasture at farm (started reno this year). The end of jan till end of April hurts me growth wise as its our dry period here. Margins are tight atm so need economical method of keeping...