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It’s never too early to be thinking about harvest
The 2.5m wide blade is shaped to propel your materials effortlessly; its smooth design without grain traps provides clean operation to avoid the risk of cross-contamination, both inside and outside...
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Trials assess benefits of wider seed bands
The Bourgault VOS coulters (l-r): The new 6in coulter; the standard 4in coulter; and a prototype ‘plastic’ coulter trialled in 2020. The winter wheat and barley were drilled at Essex-based Bentfield...
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Influencing resilient disease control
NIAB plant pathologist, Dr Aoife O’Driscoll (pictured), said: “This year, because of the very wet autumn and winter, there is an enormous amount of variability in winter wheat crops even within one...
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Scottish Grain handling demo days are hugely successful and informative
The first day of the event, which took place on 5th March, was hosted by John Duncan of Easter Balrymonth Farm, Fife. Demos showed how Mr Duncan has successfully deployed a Mecmar D 20 T mobile drier...
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The grain market is putting a lot of faith in Mother Nature to perform
Photo for illustration only. By mid-February, grain prices had fallen to new lows, as Managed Fund and speculative selling weighed on values, says Openfield’s head of grain marketing, Glenn Mason. A...
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See how Somerset boutique hotel produces home-grown flour
The Newt in Somerset The Newt Estate’s farm manager, Cameron Knee, explained: “As well as Einkorn and Emmer heritage wheat, we grow feed wheat and barley for our 400 pedigree British white cows, of...
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Growers urged not to underestimate the importance of zinc this spring
This result is based on the analysis of over 1,300 samples collected from crops across the country by FMC last year, and deficiency levels were over 10% higher than the average level we have seen over...
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How do we measure ‘environmentally good’, and how will this impact on...
Stock photo for illustration only. As the day length extends and most are trying to deal with the crops that have over-wintered or just been sown, there will be many also engaging with the new world...
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Growers urged that yellow rust ‘lurking’ in wheat needs cost-effective early...
Joe Bagshaw explained that with its potential to inflict as much as 50% yield loss, it will be important to tackle yellow rust early, before it has a chance to spread up the plant. Mr Bagshaw said:...
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New cereal fungicides to be launched in the UK
Alberto Ancora, general manager of Sumitomo Chemical Agro Europe, said that beyond the company’s conventional chemical portfolio, the business has also made “key acquisitions and investments” in...
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