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A cold, wet winter has left crops in urgent need of repair and soils starved of available nutrients. CPM seeks the emergency measures that will put growers back in charge. Trials suggest you can still get 82-96% of your yield potential. By Tom Allen-Stevens Just at the point where you feel you’ve got an element of control over your cropping system, Nature comes along and gives it a good kicking to remind you who’s in charge. So as spring unfolds, and after one of the wettest winters on record, Yara’s Mark Tucker urges growers to re-exert their authority. “The reality is that, since last harvest, the weather has been in control of the UK’s arable cropping and left us in a sorry state. Now is the time to assess the condition of your crop and decide the management action needed to repair it.” For many crops across the UK, it’ll be more a case of rescuing the biomass than feeding the potential. But careful nurture this spring can turn around even the most withered and sorry-looking wheats, he says. “Don’t be too quick to write crops off. We’ve had trials we’ve very nearly aborted in the past that have…
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