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Once every two years, anyone with a serious interest in the potato industry heads to the Yorkshire Event Centre for a specialist trade show. CPM attended BP2023 in Harrogate for insight into the latest sector developments, including what’s...
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Once every two years, anyone with a serious interest in the potato industry heads to the Yorkshire Event Centre for a specialist trade show. CPM attended BP2023 in Harrogate for insight into the latest sector developments, including what’s...
I am a trainee agronomist who is currently reading Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland.
One part reads, “In sugar beet, monogerm pelleted seed is now the norm and has enabled the crop to be precision drilled, removing the need to hand single.”.
What does the term “hand...
Just had a look at this, it’s seems a lot more open to interpretation than GS4
am I right in saying I could put a herbal ley in that is 70% rye grass with the other grasses / herbs etc making up the other 30% , leave it between start may and end july for 5 weeks , ie take a 1st cut late May/...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Teagasc is confirming that 2023 will be a good year for Irish fodder beet growers. This is assuming that they can get the harvest over the line.
While it is still early in the season for harvesting fodder beet, early indications are that this year’s...
I gave up second wheats a good few years ago due to grassweed control, lack of!, thought I'd give it another go as the farm is cleaner and now running a disc direct drill, flooding aside, it looks terrible, what have people learnt with DD second wheat, as I'm now hearing advice along the lines...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The dry spell at the end of September and early October allowed contractor, Darren Russell, to plant a 20ac crop of Spearhead winter wheat on behalf of a local dairy farming client.
The ground is situated in the townland of Killead, close to Belfast...
Anyone else had this problem. Wheat drilled 3 cm deep and rolled before application
left side had liberator+pdm. Right luximo twin pack. Glad I only bought 1 pack.
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
The back end of this summer saw a massive burst of marketing activity as the agricultural machinery industry laid on demonstrations of all their latest products before their appearance got swamped by the tsunami of news from Agritechnica.
It was a busy...
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Case IH and Väderstad have joined forces to launch a host of new products aimed at progressing and improving field tasks, including autonomous options and sustainable weeding solutions. CPM attended a press launch in Austria to see...
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Is it possible to successfully companion crop oilseed rape to help control cabbage stem flea beetle and claim SFI payments, while keeping weeds firmly under control? CPM investigates.
By Janine Adamson
Planting a companion crop...
Currently a traditional set up; plough/ heavy cultivations then drill but looking at going straight in to stubble or minimum amount of tillage.
Looking at a Claydon, are they any good…?
Cropping consists of wheat, barley, oats, maize & grass but obviously would only be for cereal crops.
Corteva 2023 OSR Survey results and findings
Growers have indicated a preference for longer rotations and a stronger focus on either early drilling, or a flexible approach which prioritises sowing seeds into moist soils wherever possible.
Corteva Agriscience’s survey received 250 replies and...
If you were to replace maize silage, based on average analyses.
How would you start calculating it?
We rent some ground in for maize, we do a bit of straw for muck where we bale and lug straw and lug muck back. So do the work both ways.
We spread muck for the maize, also would apply a...
To introduce myself: my name is Peter Martens, we operate 1900ac/760Ha of Organic land roughly 400km north west of New York City. Most of our ground is loamy though we have areas of heavy clay made up of weather shale. We have plenty of round rocks but not too many flat rocks.
We currently...
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