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Download PDF On a North Norfolk estate, where roots are the main cropping priorities across drought-prone soils, how does the fungicide policy on the wheats fit in? CPM finds out. We’re doing everything we can to build the shoots and the leaves above ground that put the roots down below. By Tom Allen-Stevens Set in 950ha of North Norfolk near Swaffham, the aim at The Wicken is to blend the estate’s rural assets so they work in harmony – both for a thriving environment and for its cropping enterprises. “My job is to ensure there are sustainable farming activities that provide the thriving biodiversity the estate needs,” says farm manager Toby Hogsbjerg. Along with increasing the soil organic matter, the cover crops mobilise phosphate and improve the soil structure at depth. Everything meshes in together, he notes, with the biodiversity generated from around 100ha in Countryside Stewardship or other environmental management also benefiting the root crops. And it’s these that form the main cropping enterprises on soil types that vary from blowing sand to sandy clay loam. 110ha of sugar beet, 80ha of potatoes and a further 80ha of land let out for onions and parsnips. 220ha of winter wheat,…
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