Direct Driller Magazine - Issue 4

For all those who has already registered, you will have already received your magazines - we hope you are enjoying them. Over the next 6 weeks we will also add all the content here. If you wish to raise any questions about articles or suggest new topics for articles then we would appreciate the feedback.

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Here is what to expect from the Magazine:

CONTENTS ISSUE 4
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Farmer Focus: Simon Cowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Soil Calcium and Soil Heath ñ the connection? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Farmerama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Getting the best out of a 750A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Field Pea Demonstration Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Options to improve water-use efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Featured Farmer: Mark Lea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Pushing Performance with Biostimulants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
BASE-UK Member Farm Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Companion Cropping Boosts No-Till Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Farmer Focus: Steve Lear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Grazing Cropped Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Lifting Whole Farm Profits at Howick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using Temporary Electric Fencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Soil and Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a Smarter Water Catchment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
What’s most important in your soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Plowman’s Folly: Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Farmer Focus: Clive Bailye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
AHDB: Why Does Healthy Soil Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
AHDB: Aphids and BYDV management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
AHDB: Assessing Machinery Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3000ha per Year with a 3m Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Comparison of ìstandard rowì and ìwide rowì . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
How to do an on Farm Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Project Xaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Overbury Estate Open Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Calcium Conference Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
NOCC 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Visit to Victors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Disc Verses Tine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Lessons from STAR and NFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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