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I think we all know that if we want to make money I mean a sensible amount farming is no longer the way, farming is becoming a sideline paid for by the other enterprises. One day people may wake up and smell the coffee but untill then farmers(anything but) will have to rely on other things to...

How many dd guys have gone cultivating? Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain. Any one else feal like abandoning...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland UK Flour Millers’ first annual review has revealed that UK flour milling businesses generate a combined annual turnover of £2 billion. The trade body for the UK flour milling industry’s review also shows that, in 2023, the industry supplied 3.8...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland Wet weather conditions in north-west Europe, especially Ireland and parts of the UK, negatively affected the yield potential of crops and hampered sowing, according to the latest Crop Monitoring in Europe report from JRC MARS (Monitoring Agricultural...

As part of the TRUTH project, the root structure, microbial activity & AMF will be studied for areas treated with biostimulants against untreated areas. This morning, we sprayed on our trial biostimulant, Itaka's Fixio, in four 48m wide strips across the field. The soil is maybe a little cold...

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Today the Red Tractor Beef & Lamb Board motioned a vote of no confidence in the RT executive. This evening the TFA ran a Q and A webinar with Jim Moseley. Couple of questions came in. One asked what RT could do to help level the playing field with grain imports. Another referenced the 3 year...

why did we ban. Chlorothalonil and epoxiconazole.

thinking if a grass lay would fit in the rotation with SFI. Would either of these scenarios work and would I need to plant a high vigour seed £50/ac or a standard 1 to 2 year lay £40/ac plant in april and plough out end of September (would you get 2 cuts) plant in august (rain permitting)...

Just thought I would share a picture of wild meadow flowers cheers me up. We used to spread bagged nitrogen on the farm until 20 years ago and had no wild flowers in meadows I remember my dad saying how when he was young the meadows were full of flowers. Now I know what he meant . Over 20...

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Sprayed T1 on my wheat and it has scorched like hell mainly older leaf’s .Overlaps look terrible vimoy + Kestrel + 1ltr ccc + 0.15 moddus mix any ideas? So dis heartening and depressing when you see it 🤦🏻‍♂️

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is. At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

Several fields of hybrid rye where the crop has only really survived on top of drains. Maybe 20% of field areas actually growing, so no point patching. No spring fert or autumn herbicide at all. What to do? Ground/soil is sadder than I’ve ever known it, and we’ve had some sad springs. Possible...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The launch of a strategic dairy farm in Wiltshire is set to focus on grazing infrastructure and how a flexible approach to forage crops has maximised grazing days. Wolfhall Farm in Burbage, Marlborough, Wiltshire, is run by Antony Mitchell and...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Growers are being urged to prioritise cost-effective early control of yellow rust, which is “lurking in wheat”, according to Syngenta. Syngenta cereal disease expert, Joe Bagshaw, said a perfect storm of late-drilled fields, susceptible varieties...

66k members. Safe to assume that many hundreds will be lesbian/gay. We know, for sure, that Muslims are members. Important posts made about keeping abattoirs going. Yet there is a constant dribble of homophobic and racist posts. Often presented as humour, or thinly disguised as political...

some pretty generous grants about, all seemingly based on reducing out put. we know from sheep and cattle prices, numbers are short, if they were not, prices wouldn't be where they are. the world is getting more dangerous by the day. And yet, politicians here, from all parties, think we can...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The EU-spec standard pig price (SPP) has fallen for the third consecutive week during the week ended April 13, dropping back by a further 0.34p to stand at 210.67p/kg. The SPP has now lost nearly 1p over the past three weeks and 3p since the end...

Do I get a prize? 1st year of a ley. Will be mowing soon for silage.