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Download PDF Grosvenor Farms in Cheshire has already made impressive progress towards reducing carbon emissions. CPM visits to find out how building the relationship between soil health and crop nutrition is bringing multiple benefits. With the technology we have today, the way we can use the soil is changing. By Tom Allen-Stevens As the Bunning 230 HBD manure spreader makes its way slowly down the field of spring-sown triticale and vetch, Charlie Steer retreats to a safe distance. “We’re expecting a 30t/ha output of forage from this crop and only putting 20kgN/ha into it, provided entirely by manure from our own dairy unit – that’s got to be efficient, however you measure it,” he says. The crop is being tried for the first time across 220ha of Grosvenor Farms, based at Aldford, near Chester, following a recommendation from SRUC as part of a carbon audit of the business. Charlie is arable manager, responsible for cropping over 2340ha of an estate that totals 6000ha. The crops dovetail into the farm’s dairy enterprise, that’s been recently consolidated into one unit from its previous four, milking 2500 cows three times a day through a 60-point rotary unit. The spring triticale and vetch is…
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