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Oilseed rape breeders continue to be busy behind the scenes exploring genetic traits to help growers overcome the many challenges associated with the crop. CPM looks at some of the latest varietal launches shared at press briefings and...
Ok.
Slugs have had a large portion of my legume fallow this spring, despite mixing pellets with the seed, and broadcast on top too.
There's plants there, but not thick. Luckily they're larger bushier very obvious plants once they flower.
Thinking of drilling some mustard or similar into it in a...
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Large-scale on-farm testing of oilseed rape varieties is providing the best possible crop resilience intelligence for growers across the country. CPM reports on the programme behind the trials.
By Rob Jones
With oilseed rape in...
What is everyone thinking on this? I have winter triticale for AD being foraged in June, so was always planning to do a summer cover crop with legumes infront of the following wheat. There is now talk of SFI payments for this scenario which is another bonus.
My initial thoughts were something...
Just got my soil samples back, heavy clay now herbal leys.
high mag, high ph (if you believe that) great OM, calcium, potassium CEC.
but P index 1.
i do have a lot of fym which will get spread.
what does anyone use to effectively up their levels
How many dd guys have gone cultivating?
Out next door neighbours practices a full range of cultivating and has 95% crop cover after a hard winter we dd a majority of ours and a currently re drilling 50% .cultivating a fair bit as the top is solid from rain.
Any one else feal like abandoning...
This is the first year we are having a field of Maize on our farm to sell the standing crop. The only machine we don’t have is a shakerator (or similar) and I always see maize people shakerate the field before or after ploughing… is this necessary? The field is light and has been in an...
Bit confused just been listening to the woman from QMS on the fed by farmers podcast and she was talking about halal slaughter being stunned first when I always thought halal slaughter protocol was that it wasn't allowed to be stunned first and had to have it's throat slit and hung to bleed out...
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Ok, so I’ve been invited to go and do some long range shooting at Eskdalemuir range in July (range is over a mile, 1750m ish).
The lad I’m going with said I can borrow one of his rifles but it also looks like I’ll get some deer stalking later in the year so I’m considering trying to get a...
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Agronomist, Richard Owens, has confirmed that continuing wet conditions are hampering cereal growers form getting on with critically important field work.
“Some areas were hit that little bit harder with the weather than others. As a rule of thumb...
Finally started monitoring my trial today after it was set up by @Clive_Blacker last weekend didnt find many slugs, & not entirely sure i have grey field slugs. Harvested a few from the slimery, but again, all a bit quiet
Anyone managed to grab bits? I grabbed some real light bits but any clay and it’s a wet shitty mess. Not sure when to throw the towel in and go for sfi
I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
In the last two nights there has been four attacks around the village. Ewes and even fornight old lambs have been shot and left in the fields. A couple at each farm, but the same each time with some being shot in the head and some being the body.
Spoke to the police about it today and there is...
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Amid a constant battle with declining chemistry and catchy weather windows, including an adjuvant in the spray tank is proving essential for one Wiltshire spray operator. CPM finds out more.
By Charlotte Cunningham
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If you've entered into SFI but potentially cant meet aims due to weather difficulties / ground conditions , what options do you have ?
I've entered SFI with a start date of Feb this year and one of the options was no insecticide (IPM4) which is planned for fields coming spring barley. The...
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