Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
Defra has approved an emergency temporary authorisation for the use of the neonicotinoid pesticide treatment, Cruiser SB, on the 2022 sugar beet crop in England for the control of virus yellows. Sugar beet crops have been severely affected by...
Written by William Kellett from Agriland
Defra has approved an emergency temporary authorisation for the use of a neonicotinoid pesticide treatment on the 2022 sugar beet crop due to the risk to the crop from yellows viruses.
Emerging sugar beet seedlings are vulnerable to predation by aphids...
Well seeing as it’s new year and last years thread on this topic ram to 80 pages, thought it time to start a new one for this year’s harvest.
I don’t have a lot of winter corn in but what I have is looking ok. The warm December certainly did no harm. A selection as off today.
Graham after...
AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds is funded through a statutory levy on:
a) cereal producers
b) cereal buyers
c) cereal processors
By comparison, Pulse Growers Research Organisation is funded through a non-statutory levy i.e. if you don't agree with their work, you could opt out if you wished. The...
Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
Entries to the Farm Sprayer Operator of the Year (FSOOTY) awards will remain open until after the LAMMA event in January, to enable more operators to enter over quieter months. Syngenta application specialist, Scott Cockburn, highlighted with...
BBC posted an article Wednesday on Delhi Air Quality, noting Indian farmers and crop burning. And obv resulting pollution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-59486806
Think BBC got their views from this nasa article. The data they uses comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging...
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...
I am at the end of my 3 year cycle for Nroso. What with one thing and another I have not managed to do as many training events as usual and ended up with 29 points. Saw this on my statement and coincidentally my local NIAB conference was last week so I popped along and signed the BASIS and Nroso...
Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland
Eleven companies have been shortlisted for the 2021 Agri-tech Excellence Awards, with the winner due to be announced at Agri-EPI conference’s annual conference taking place on October 28.
Supported by Marks & Spencer, Syngenta, Leyton, Barclays and...
Written by John Swire from Farm Business
The role of agri-tech in the journey towards more economically and environmentally sustainable farming is the focus of Agri-EPI annual conference on 28 October.
The free, online event will bring together farmers and the wider agri-food industry...
We are having terrible trouble with crows/rooks digging up the fields so I’ve had a dig as well and there are lots of Chafer Grubs in the soil. Looking around as I type this I can see well over 50 acres of land between me and my neighbour that’s been destroyed in the last 10 days. They started...
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/derogation-secured-for-diquat-desiccant-spray-646913
What are peoples thoughts on this ?
Sounds like Syngenta have produced some Reglone for Ireland judging by the new PCS number for this season.
If the office holders are effectively part time on a reduced hour contract who is actually behind the scenes pulling the strings and making the decisions the office holder then publicly talk about?
Written by Agriland Team from Agriland
The inventors behind 17 agri-tech solutions will present their ground-breaking technologies at this year’s virtual World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit.
The featured start-ups have worked to tackle some of the biggest challenges in farming, with...
Normally try and drill first ten days of October but last two years have been caught by heavy storms just after drilling that has gone on for months, thinking of going early this time, what's are others doing ?
With the impending cereals vote and the fact they’ve recently lost the potato and horticulture one as well as actively promoting the con Red Tractor scheme which way will the cereals vote go? I’ll be voting to stop the levy as we need to claim back the money we are all forced to pay the Ponzi...
Written by cpm from CPM Magazine
Download PDF The results of new research show that while yields may suffer a knock under more sustainable farming systems, profitability isn’t adversely affected. CPM takes a closer look. There’s clear direction for a more sustainable farming system. By Lucy de...