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  1. Agriland RSS

    Concern over availability of spring barley seed

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland According to College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops advisors, spring barley seed may be in short supply this year. This is a direct consequence of the widespread poor harvest conditions that characterised last year. According...
  2. CPM RSS

    Adapting disease management: Proactive T1 planning

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring. By Melanie Jenkins Boots on the ground indicate...
  3. CPM RSS

    Adapting disease management: Proactive T1 planning

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring. By Melanie Jenkins Boots on the ground indicate...
  4. CPM RSS

    Adapting disease management: Targeting T0

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Establishment is a critical period of any season, but it’s been a challenging time to get crops drilled, so what does this mean for T0 applications? CPM explores the diseases likely to be most problematic this spring and how to manage...
  5. CPM RSS

    Cereal Disease Control: No one right answer

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Given the highly variable field conditions across the country, devising an effective spring fungicide programme may feel like an insurmountable feat. Although it’s difficult to predict impending disease pressure with so many unknowns, CPM...
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    Potassium affects both yield and quality of grain – PDA

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland According to the Potash Development Association (PDA), potassium affects both the yield and quality of grain, as well as the general health and vigour of the plant. Cereal crops need at least as much, if not more, potassium than any other nutrient...
  7. Just because

    Break crops

    We plant cover crops in autumn for grazing store lambs on normally stubble turnips/forage rape. This year we planted grass seeds. Grass was planted mid August came extremely well currently have lambs on if we where to plough up end of February for spring barley (so roughly 6 months) would it be...
  8. P

    Wheat seed rates 2023

    Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has...
  9. CPM RSS

    Seed treatments: Making the healthy roots, NUE connection

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Laws to reduce fertiliser inputs have put some German wheat growers at a disadvantage, but recent trials there have shown that managing the soil-borne disease take-all with a seed treatment can help compensate. CPM reports. By Rob Jones...
  10. Agriland RSS

    Tillage: How to test for take-all using a plastic cup

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Take-all is a disease that is becoming a major challenge on Irish cereal farms. Black patches in stubble can be an indicator of the problem’s existence. However, Seedtech’s Tim O’Donovan outlined a much more definitive test for the disease at the...
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    Poor weather stymies start of NI winter barley harvest

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Farmers in parts of east Down sprayed-off crops of winter barley last week, in the expectation of having their earliest fields harvested by now. The Ards Peninsula, for instance, is one of the earliest regions of Northern Ireland, where the growing of...
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    Tillage: Time to consider new seed varieties for 2023-2024

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland It’s that time of year when cereal growers will start to consider what new seed varieties are available for the season ahead. In some parts of the country, the start of the winter barley harvest is just four weeks away. And as soon as this is...
  13. farmerfred86

    Latitude Seed dressing

    I'm reluctantly growing second wheats again this autumn. I test seed and try to avoid fungicidal seed dressings where possible. I was horrified to see the price of latitude but I'm not sure if I should really be using it? It would seem in a no-till situation and very early October drilling its...
  14. CPM RSS

    Taking away the stress

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Stress is arguably the single biggest risk factor for any barley crop. CPM attended a BASF roundtable to discover why preventing stress in the crop is important and how this can be done while facing numerous challenges. By Melanie...
  15. TFF

    Large-scale regeneration

    Download PDF How is Dyson Farming transitioning to its stated aim of a long term, regenerative model that leaves a positive land legacy? CPM listens as Tom Storr explains the company’s strategy at the recent BASE-UK conference. By Mike Abram Pretty much like many other farming businesses...
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    Rye not?

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Could hybrid rye be the new crop of the moment? CPM delves deeper into a series of trials which has flagged the benefits of hybrid rye both in terms of the crop’s growing requirements and its market potential. By Melanie Jenkins The...
  17. jackrussell101

    What are the benefits of growing triticale?

    Arable novice here. What are the benefits of growing triticale in an arable rotation? Is it a breakcrop with wheat? How cheap is it to grow, and what yield would you expect from land that would normally do 3.5 tonne per acre wheat? Presumably combined, and the straw is of use too? Many thanks
  18. bankrupt

    2023 Wet thread #1

    155mm here in March, so far. Agronomy now facing an unfortunate combination of surface waterlogging and subsoil moisture deficiency, with current root death likely to restrict scarce moisture uptake later on. Combining that with last autumn's much higher cost base and next harvest's lower...
  19. CPM RSS

    Protect, prevent, and prosper

    Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF The early bird catches the worm – so the saying goes, and this is no truer than when applied to getting ahead of disease in cereal crops. CPM explores how targeted early season agronomy can make all the difference. By Melanie Jenkins...
  20. D

    Stubble Turnip Spring Barley Break

    Just wondering if stubble turnips drilled after winter barley followed by spring barley will be enough of a “take all” break before going back into winter wheat. Trying to avoid spring beans. I’m persevering with OSR but I don’t want too much of it, so reckoned if half my break crop area was...
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