I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
https://newsroom.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/news/substantial-fines-for-farmers-who-knowingly-kept-cattle-with-bovine-tb-reactors-on-farm
Read the article. It brings the dairy industry into disrepute and in my opinion they should have substantial jail time as well as confiscation of assets on top of...
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A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...
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Growers learned about progress being made to find solutions to virus yellows in sugar beet at the recent BBRO BeetTech 24 event. CPM joined delegates to hear the latest updates.
By Mike Abram
The yield penalty from sugar beet varieties...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Potash is a key nutrient for potato crops, impacting on the yield and quality of tubers, as well as the general health of individual plants.
It is involved in regulating the amount of water in the plant, because in the absence of sufficient...
If you've entered into SFI but potentially cant meet aims due to weather difficulties / ground conditions , what options do you have ?
I've entered SFI with a start date of Feb this year and one of the options was no insecticide (IPM4) which is planned for fields coming spring barley. The...
Whats everyone elses position. The wheats looking really hungry now and its so wet wondering whether just go and make a mess or be patient?! Must be loosing yield surely.
Perception and perspective are very different things. Generally individuals and old farmers see food security as an existential threat eg if we had a major war (see WW2) and we struggle to have enough food in the UK. Retailers and governments see food security along the lines of “are the supply...
Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland
Mineral-oil-based fuels suffer a good deal of bad publicity, but the government’s enthusiasm for batteries as a universal method of energy storage means that alternative sources of diesel are overlooked.
Carbon-based fuels, such as diesel, have several...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Mole Valley Farmers has launched a Soil-to-Silage service with the aim of helping livestock farmers get the most nutritional value from their grassland.
The Soil-to-Silage is available to Mole Valley Farmers members, shareholders and customers...
What would you expect to pay for a herd / dairy manager for 300 milking, all young stock on farm, AYR. No forage or field responsibility - that’s all sorted for them.
Comes with a house.
Herd / dairy manager because the owner hopes to become hands off so the person ultimately is running all...
The team at Central Injection Agri know their sh!t! Turn your waste product into fertilizer GOLD!
Correctly managed, the slurry and manure output on your farm can be a cost-effective way of fertilizing your paddocks while also being environmentally friendly. Here at Central Injection Agri we...
Some twenty years ago I remember reading how we wouldn't need to plant wheat every year by about now, it would grow back every year they just needed to perfect the breeding. What happened?
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Dairy agri-tech company National Milk Records (NMR) Limited has appointed a new managing director.
Mark Frankcom has been appointed to the position with immediate effect.
Mark Frankcom
He has acted as interim managing director for the past...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Bisterne Farm has been crowned the winner of the 2023 NMR RABDF Gold Cup award with its crossbred, low input, grass-based herd.
Bisterne Farms’ contract farmer George Brown and herdsman James Dunning
The farm, based in Ringwood, Hampshire, was...
Iblon: a groundbreaking new active substance that delivers unrivalled broad-spectrum disease control.
A limitation of most fungicides is that they tend to be limited in their spectrum of activity. Iblon overcomes this limitation to deliver unrivalled broad-spectrum control. This means growers...
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