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With many different cultivation options on the market, it’s important to match a new purchase with on-farm objectives. CPM gets advice on cultivation decisions from the experts, as well as looking at some of the most recent launches. It’s important to stop, take a step back, and consider what the soil actually needs. By Charlotte Cunningham Quite often in crop production, experts like to give advice based on a ‘normal year’. But with the past few seasons encompassing everything from non-stop rain in the autumn to scorching hot Aprils, it seems that conditions now tend to be anything but ‘normal’. It’s fair to say that lack of consistency can make forward planning difficult and while the weather is very much out of the hands of growers, something that could help is making soils more resilient to wet and dry conditions. Soil resilience, and building that resilience, is something that’s certainly in vogue, but knowing where to begin can be rather overwhelming… However, according to agronomy firm, Hutchinsons, a key starting point is choosing the right post-harvest cultivations. In the rush to prepare ground for drilling it can be all too easy to go straight in with the cultivator or…
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With many different cultivation options on the market, it’s important to match a new purchase with on-farm objectives. CPM gets advice on cultivation decisions from the experts, as well as looking at some of the most recent launches. It’s important to stop, take a step back, and consider what the soil actually needs. By Charlotte Cunningham Quite often in crop production, experts like to give advice based on a ‘normal year’. But with the past few seasons encompassing everything from non-stop rain in the autumn to scorching hot Aprils, it seems that conditions now tend to be anything but ‘normal’. It’s fair to say that lack of consistency can make forward planning difficult and while the weather is very much out of the hands of growers, something that could help is making soils more resilient to wet and dry conditions. Soil resilience, and building that resilience, is something that’s certainly in vogue, but knowing where to begin can be rather overwhelming… However, according to agronomy firm, Hutchinsons, a key starting point is choosing the right post-harvest cultivations. In the rush to prepare ground for drilling it can be all too easy to go straight in with the cultivator or…
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