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Among the many candidates lined up to join the Group 4 hard wheat market is one high performer that seems to look after itself. CPM visits an Oxon farm business making a conscious move back into hard feed. You don’t really have to give it very much attention for it to power away and perform for you. By Tom Allen-Stevens As you turn up at the farm office of the Hildred Partnership near Wallingford, Oxon, you can’t help but notice the crop of oilseed rape on the slope facing you that’s been hit hard by cabbage stem flea beetle. “It’s there to remind me never to grow the crop again,” says Guy Hildred. “It was the one field that appeared to grow away from CSFB last autumn, so we decided not to pull it up. But that was a mistake.” Contrast that with a nearby field of KWS Kinetic winter wheat, drilled on 17 Oct, that faced a similar dilemma at the start of the year, after it was hit hard by crows over the winter. “In places you could barely see the crop in the rows, and we very nearly abandoned it. But it took off in March,…
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