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...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
According to College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprises (CAFRE) crops advisors, spring barley seed may be in short supply this year.
This is a direct consequence of the widespread poor harvest conditions that characterised last year.
According...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring.
By Melanie Jenkins
Boots on the ground indicate...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring.
By Melanie Jenkins
Boots on the ground indicate...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Establishment is a critical period of any season, but it’s been a challenging time to get crops drilled, so what does this mean for T0 applications? CPM explores the diseases likely to be most problematic this spring and how to manage...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Given the highly variable field conditions across the country, devising an effective spring fungicide programme may feel like an insurmountable feat. Although it’s difficult to predict impending disease pressure with so many unknowns, CPM...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
According to the Potash Development Association (PDA), potassium affects both the yield and quality of grain, as well as the general health and vigour of the plant.
Cereal crops need at least as much, if not more, potassium than any other nutrient...
We plant cover crops in autumn for grazing store lambs on normally stubble turnips/forage rape. This year we planted grass seeds. Grass was planted mid August came extremely well currently have lambs on if we where to plough up end of February for spring barley (so roughly 6 months) would it be...
Thinking about starting drilling wheat next week. This early drilled stuff is going in mainly after early potatoes and some overwintered stubble that has been ploughed and pressed. We have subsoiled and disc & pressed after the potatoes. All seedbeds are really good and the nice bit of rain has...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Laws to reduce fertiliser inputs have put some German wheat growers at a disadvantage, but recent trials there have shown that managing the soil-borne disease take-all with a seed treatment can help compensate. CPM reports.
By Rob Jones...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Take-all is a disease that is becoming a major challenge on Irish cereal farms. Black patches in stubble can be an indicator of the problem’s existence.
However, Seedtech’s Tim O’Donovan outlined a much more definitive test for the disease at the...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Farmers in parts of east Down sprayed-off crops of winter barley last week, in the expectation of having their earliest fields harvested by now.
The Ards Peninsula, for instance, is one of the earliest regions of Northern Ireland, where the growing of...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
It’s that time of year when cereal growers will start to consider what new seed varieties are available for the season ahead.
In some parts of the country, the start of the winter barley harvest is just four weeks away. And as soon as this is...
I'm reluctantly growing second wheats again this autumn.
I test seed and try to avoid fungicidal seed dressings where possible. I was horrified to see the price of latitude but I'm not sure if I should really be using it? It would seem in a no-till situation and very early October drilling its...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Stress is arguably the single biggest risk factor for any barley crop. CPM attended a BASF roundtable to discover why preventing stress in the crop is important and how this can be done while facing numerous challenges.
By Melanie...
Download PDF
How is Dyson Farming transitioning to its stated aim of a long term, regenerative model that leaves a positive land legacy? CPM listens as Tom Storr explains the company’s strategy at the recent BASE-UK conference.
By Mike Abram
Pretty much like many other farming businesses...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
Could hybrid rye be the new crop of the moment? CPM delves deeper into a series of trials which has flagged the benefits of hybrid rye both in terms of the crop’s growing requirements and its market potential.
By Melanie Jenkins
The...
Arable novice here.
What are the benefits of growing triticale in an arable rotation?
Is it a breakcrop with wheat?
How cheap is it to grow, and what yield would you expect from land that would normally do 3.5 tonne per acre wheat?
Presumably combined, and the straw is of use too?
Many thanks
155mm here in March, so far.
Agronomy now facing an unfortunate combination of surface waterlogging and subsoil moisture deficiency, with current root death likely to restrict scarce moisture uptake later on.
Combining that with last autumn's much higher cost base and next harvest's lower...
Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine
Download PDF
The early bird catches the worm – so the saying goes, and this is no truer than when applied to getting ahead of disease in cereal crops. CPM explores how targeted early season agronomy can make all the difference.
By Melanie Jenkins...
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.