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Did Seed dressings kill slug eating Beetles?

I am old enough to remember 15 years of farming before OSR, didnt need slug pellets then... if there were such things?
was that before the power Harrow
when we tyned rolled and disced we did not use slug pellets wheat rape barley rotation
once we got a power Harrow had todo a lot more rolling and pressing to ensure establishment

September drilling much less slug issue than mid October
 

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Arable Farmer
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Fen Edge
I posted this elsewhere but some land I took on, basically farmed continuous organic spring barley before I had it. Farmed for 5 years by myself and had 1 insecticide in that time. This year mid October drilled WB following fallow sprayed off in June and then ploughed in Sep is being hammered by slugs. I was late identifying problem and since then been impossible to get near the field. No osr either.
 

How is your SFI 24 application progressing?

  • havn't been invited to apply

    Votes: 27 35.5%
  • have been invited to apply

    Votes: 13 17.1%
  • applied but not yet accepted

    Votes: 28 36.8%
  • agreement up and running

    Votes: 8 10.5%

Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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