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Download PDF Bedfordshire grower Russell McKenzie has taken on-farm tramline trials a step further, looking beyond fungicides for solutions that work. CPM visits as he plans his approach for this season. It’s about gathering knowledge and storing it – the value of the data you get is second to none. By Tom Allen-Stevens They say every arable farm should have at least a field, a patch or a tramline where something new or different is explored. Russell McKenzie, farming on the Cambs, Beds and Northants border, has taken the concept to the next level. Last year, he drilled 11 different winter wheat varieties across a 2ha area of one of his fields. Overlaid across the four tramlines were seven different disease control programmes (plus an untreated control), and not all of them were based entirely on fungicides. “I’ve done tramline trials for a number of years which includes the Judge For Yourself trials with Bayer that I’ve been involved with since it started,” he explains. “They’re a lot of work and you question it sometimes when you’re going back and forth at busy times of the year, putting just 100 litres in the spray tank. But it’s about gathering knowledge…
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