weed control

Has anyone grown them on a field scale? Wondering about seedrates, nutrition, varieties, that sort of thing.

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine With growers looking for alternatives to spring cropping including late drilling winter seed, regulation regarding dates should be front of mind. The last official day of the winter drilling window was 31 January, with any crops planted beyond this...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland One of the great takeaways from Agritechnica last year, was the rapid move towards minimising soil disturbance in preparing ground for the next crop. This an approach echoed by Weaving Machinery, which had a significant presence at LAMMA. There is a...

Anyone already using this on a commercial scale for selective weed control in cereals?

https://www.ft.com/content/9b819b0c-663a-46f0-86a8-5e570913317a we havnt had a good ploughing vrs DD dust up for awhile :sneaky:it all seems dominated by the politics of rt nfu et al :rolleyes:

Spotlight on new actions for arable and horticulture farmers Written by The Team Biddenden Vineyard At the beginning of the month, we published a post which summarised the recent Agricultural Transition Plan update. The update includes the full range of new and improved actions plus the...

Please feel free to correct me but where is the sense in spring cropping now? Does it makes more sense to put in a wild flower mix or some other rotational SFI action? Grow Spring Barley £/Acre approx. 25 - plough 25 - power harrow 40 - seed cost 30 - Drill 10 - Roll 10 - Pre em 30 -...

Northern Shot Mixture; 35% Spring Triticale 25% Spring Barley 20% Spring Wheat (Fail 82% Germ) 10% Kale 5% Hybrid Brassica 2% Chicory (Fail 56% Germ) 2% Yellow Blossom Clover 1% Green Fennel Pack size 20kg Delivered price £2.25 per kilo Minimum order size 40kgs (2 x 20kg pack) Sowing rate 50...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine A tough few months has resulted in a huge variation in crops across the country, posing numerous management headaches including weed control, warn experts. At one end of the scale are crops sown relatively early in September, that established well in...

Morning all , Is this possible .... Putting a patch into SFI herbal ley which will need to be established in the Autmn at latest . I was wondering about putting spring barley in and undersowing it with the herbal ley . Will it work ? Thought please ?

Below you can find the key results found from the 2nd year of the HWSC project. Data was analysed by weed scientist Will Smith at NIAB after receiving weed samples from BOFIN member Seed Scouts. Let us know your thoughts...is this what you expected?

So i wonder what announcements / new standards we might get re SFI today ? any guesses ?

Hi, I'm looking for a farmer who is planning to grow Spring OSR in 2024, who would be willing to host a trial. Might be a long shot as I know Spring OSR isn't a very popular crop, but any help would be appreciated.

Can someone tell me the carbon foot print of a tree falling on an electric car? I'm quite pro tree planting. In straight lines in a managed woodland with good weed control & pruned to keep the trunk straight. But why is it such a battle to fell dangerous trees?

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...

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1566/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1566/pub/1566/page/61/article/NaN Hope this link works, at last …. Rewilding is NOT the answe

What machine do people use for planting cabbages and brussel sprouts please?

I like the look of these, how well do they work as weeders as I’m looking to introduce more cultural methods of weed control and reduce chem spend. Also, would they work as a replacement for a Claydon stubble rake as it looks like you could use the Rotocare in damper conditions than the Claydon...

Evening all, New to all this so after a bit of advice, due to complete this week on purchase of 22 acre smallholding on the Carmarthen/ Pembrokeshire border of West Wales. Currently a local farmer rents a 7 acre field for 40 head of sheep, but I’m unable to get a clear answer as to rental...

Good afternoon, I’m looking at ways of reducing me feed costs with me ewes pre lambing. I feed them 18% ewe nuts at present for 8 weeks prior to lambing raising 0.25 pound per head each week so by the final week they’re on 2 pounds of nuts per head (fed twice a day so 1 in the morning and 1 at...