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.
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?
As many Plant Protection Products (PPPs) pass through the approval or re-approval process with the CRD (Chemicals Regulation Directorate), we are seeing aquatic buffer zones altered on many insecticide and some herbicide labels; with the aim to protect aquatic life.
Crop Management Partners have put together a summary of changes to the NVZ regulations that will affect many arable and livestock farms. Download the PDF below to read further. We have also compiled a brief table of the closed periods for spreading high available N organic manures and bagged fertiliser, accompanied by some important notes. […]
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TAKE NOTE Current RDPE programme which ELS/HLS/OELS schemes sit under ends on 1st Dec 2013. This means that the latest start date for new/renewed ELS/HLS agreements is 1st Dec 2013. After this date, new ELS agreements are not expected to start until 1st Jan 2016. Any ELS/OELS agreements expiring after 1st Dec 2013 will run their […]
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