Got rained off when rolling a field of newly drilled winter wheat and it never got finished. Took this 3 weeks later slugs have hammered it where it hadn’t been rolled. Won’t make that mistake again!
The AHDB Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) publications provide variety-performance data. With information on yield and quality, agronomic features and market options, use these variety-specific highlights (alongside the main RL) to identify promising varieties for your farm...
Could anyone explain what metribuzin is used for on potatoes and its application time and windows please? It's not a product I am familiar with.
I have found these product names in the UK
Acorix 70 WG Generic
Manufacturer: GLOBACHEM nv, MAPP: 18755
Discus Parallel
Manufacturer: RAAT...
The latest crop development report published last Friday (03 Dec) estimated winter wheat conditions significantly better year-on-year.
In the latest report, 84% of wheat was rated good-excellent, up from 57% at the same point last year. Only 9% was rated fair, versus 23% last year.
The last...
Today we release our first crop condition report for the 2021/22 growing season. This report summarises the condition of major GB cereal and oilseeds crops as of the end of November 2021. So, what do the results show?
Crop development as of November 2021
The weather was kinder this autumn...
Morning all
Today we'll be publishing some information about how the sustainable farming incentive will work when we start rolling it out from next year in England.
I'll post the links here as soon as they're online, and will be here on this thread over the next few days to answer your...
Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
AHDB’s online edition of the Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) 2022/23 features a whopping 37 new varieties – encompassing a wide range of types and traits. Launched on Monday (29 November 2021), the edition introduces new traits...
Is there a map for where people do more direct drilling over ploughing?
Moving on from the ploughing is bad thread, where is the cross over point. Is it only for the big south of England farms? Where is is dry and sunny and warm?
I’m in Northern Ireland, it’s damp and mild all year around. I...
With the current price of nitrogen, what are the thoughts on drilling more winter wheat if the weather holds, now late November, more than likely looking at reduced yield 8t/h ish? we have tested seed in the shed we can dress.
OR
Spring Barley, been offered £190 ex November 2022 today, can be...
A neighbour has a couple of stubble fields that have a lot of barley growing on them, he has offered them to me to graze off for him with sheep.
I know grazing wheat is safe enough and
I've grazed stubble with some barley on them before and I've had barley come up in reseeds, but these have...
Recent dry weather seems to have boosted US 2021/22 harvest progress as explained above. However, for new crop US winter wheat, dry weather may remain a watch point for new season supply.
According to the USDA, new crop winter wheat plantings were 94% complete as at 14 November. This is up 3pp...
Hi,
Does anyone use the paper waste for field nutrients. We have some land and there isn’t any body to the land, it ploughs like dust and just levels it’s self easy so want to put something back in to get some body in the land and can get paper locally and sewage sludge locally aswell so...
A NEW seaweed biostimulant to nurture and protect
Albatross is a NEW and highly concentrated cold pressed extract of the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum that promotes healthier, higher yielding crops by increasing resource use efficiency and protection against stressful growing conditions...
Research Review No. 97
Review of how best to respond to expensive fertiliser nitrogen for use in 2022 by Roger Sylvester-Bradley and Daniel Kindred
1. Abstract
This is Part One of a two-part study to help cereal and oilseed growers respond appropriately to the large increases in prices of...