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Do potatoes need a sulphur fertiliser?

Written by cpm Download PDF Seed potato producers are leaving no stone unturned to slow the proliferation of virus in British stocks, with straw mulches and mineral oils set to compliment systemic insecticides as part of a robust integrated pest management (IPM) strategy this year. CPM finds...

I've just noticed some small plants, about primrose size that look like ragwort in a wooded part of the farm near a stream. Not the tall stemmy jobs you would expect but fully in flower. Is there a kind of junior version? I'll keep an eye on it over the year. So far off limits from animals.

Written by Lydia Turner UK Scientists have used genome editing to reduce a cancer-causing compound commonly found during bread baking. Acrylamide, is a compound which forms during bread baking and further increased when bread is toasted, the darker the toast, the more of this carcinogenic...

Just bought a new one. Is it just me or is a rubber tube hard to push down the lambs throat. I got on well with the more plastic type ones.

I'm planting some earlies in some quite deep pots...about 35cm..is it possible to plant them too deep..or will they yield better ?

I'd rather watch YouTube than TV now and enjoy seeing farmers in other countries . I follow a quite few, Millennial Farmer and 10th Generation Dairyman being a couple of them. What suprises me is how Americans use skidsteers as their main loaders. Surley loading shovels or...

Thinking of going down the route of having a veg craft style filling system. 90% of the time we fill at a central site, next to IBCs etc etc. This means we could save a few hours by turning off the sprayer and using cheap(er) electricity to run a pump and fill the sprayer? Big hopper would make...

anyone know a manufacturer of forklift tote bin / hopper. to hold 2x600 seed dont want to see swinging bags on tines anymore with people and expensive drills underneath.

Normally get offered stock feed potatoes in May, we take them and mix with silage and clamp them which has worked well the last couple years. I am contemplating keeping back my tail end of yearling stores to graze and hang up in October/November. I’d prefer to feed them tatties near enough all...

Commonly used in Asia , sounds well dodgy https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)32506-6/fulltext

I've very recently become interested in the use of hygroscopic materials (things that absorb and retain a lot of water), for the purpose of making the ground retain more water, so as to reduce the costs of irrigation. So far, the only ones I've come up with are: 1. Cotton and paper in general...

https://on.ft.com/3gbtmIm In this morning's paper. You never know what you're going to find

Here they go. Looks like Moderna and Oxford AstraZeneca will be a while off though.

Going to buy a new head torch and was seeing some of the you tubers in Ireland that I follow heavily promoting Olight, does anyone have experience of their gear, was going to buy an HR2 Thanks

I was reliably informed yesterday that both the Democrats and Republicans have are armed to the teeth with huge legal teams with over 500 Lawyers ready and awaiting the aftermath of this coming election results. Both camps have one remit, under any circumstances DO NOT CONCEDE!!!!!! What this...

Hello everyone! Im an amatuer and have just picked my first ever potatoes grown in my garden. The plant and leaves recently died off with some little black/brown spots on the leaves.... The few potatoes ive picked look ok on the outside, one has some slightly raised light brown circes on (see...

Hi, I'm new on here so I'm not sure where to ask this. I'm a 24 year old Female who is just recently graduated 2:1 honours degree (BSC) in Agriculture. I want to become an agronomist but I'm finding it difficult to get any jobs in this sector especially as a trainee agronomist. I have 10...