AHDB Sittingbourne Monitor Farm Event – February 2017
You’re invited to the Sittingbourne AHDB Monitor Farm Event.
The topic of this event is ‘Cereal’s yield potential’ as part of the ADAS’s Yield Enhancement Network (YEN).
You’re invited to the Sittingbourne AHDB Monitor Farm Event.
The topic of this event is ‘Cereal’s yield potential’ as part of the ADAS’s Yield Enhancement Network (YEN).
At a time when the economics of arable farming mean most farms are trying to drive cost out of the business, spending £40-100/ha on seed, fertiliser, slug pellets, labour and machinery to establish a cover crop is not very attractive. You have to buy into the longer term benefits of better soil structure, improved soil biology, reduced erosion risk and nutrient retention. Plus catch or cover crops can also be used to meet your Greening requirements.
Crop Management Partners, Roger Bryan & Tristan Gibbs on behalf of the AHDB for the launch of the business as an AHDB Monitor Farm on Thursday 23rd June
Our aim at Crop Management Partners, as your advisor, is to help you as our client to be in the top 10% of growers. To this end, we would like to re-introduce a benchmarking service to you.
Despite one of the mildest winters on record, wheat disease control plans are back on track as the T1 timing approaches.
That’s the general view from the field as T0 sprays are being applied, with the fire engine situation that may were predicting earlier in the year having failed to materialise.
Writing in Crop Production Magazine, Nick Wall discusses winter wheat fungicide options.
“There’s plenty of septoria on the oldest leaves, but I’m yet to find rust. Mildew could be a big problem on small crops and could also establish quickly on lush growth if crops grow away quickly after a prolonged cold spell.
In December 2015 a group of farmers and agronomists got on the train at Kings Cross London and were whisked up to Leeds for a whistle stop tour of Nufarm’s headquarters of manufacturing agrochemicals and a visit to Sumo the machinery manufacturer.
With a number of the major manufactures launching SDHI fungicides in recent years, most are claiming that these chemicals are having a plant heath benefit – but whilst this may be the case, what does it mean for crops in the field?