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Looking for performance from a late-sown wheat, Norfolk grower NE Salmon is bringing newly recommended winter wheat KWS Cranium into its wide and diverse rotation. CPM visits to find out why. It’s different, but this is in areas that are significant on farm. By Tom Allen-Stevens Late November is not a time of year Ed Salmon likes to get the combine out. He’s inspecting a crop of soya, hoping the current spell of dry weather will last long enough to cut the 8ha grown more as a point of principle than to test a new market opportunity. “I’m glad we’ve grown the crop, though I’m not sure we’ll be growing it again,” he says. “But I believe there’s a big opportunity for UK growers to displace imports – it’s not right for the UK to export the environmental burden of crops we could so easily grow here, especially those destined for animal feed.” NE Salmon, based near Dereham, Norfolk, crops around 1900ha on mainly sandy/clay loam soils that range from chalky boulder clay to pure sand. There are no fewer than 12 crops across the rotation, nine of which pass through the combine. “We’ve had a wide and varied rotation…
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