A multi-nutrient fertiliser to help supplement conventional spring applications can boost wheat yields and reduce leaching, according to new trials. An autumn application of ICL polysulphate can increase yields by 0.3t/ha and significantly decrease leaching of nitrogen and phosphate over the winter months, suggests the three-year trial carried out... Read more
Arable growers are being encouraged to make sure they choose the right options available under the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). More than 150 growers attending a recent open day in Cambridgeshire examined the latest opportunities within the SFI – and ways to select the options that deliver the... Read more
Decision to grow Mayflower pays off
Arable 06/10/2023
A Northamptonshire grower is drilling double the amount of winter wheat Mayflower this autumn after the variety performed well in difficult conditions. Emma Bletsoe, of Denford Ash Farm, near Kettering, was delighted with her first-time crop of the Group Two variety which bucked the recent negative trends of sliding Hagbergs... Read more
Fewer cultivations can be good for soil structure and health – but ploughing still has its place and can bring dividends, suggests the latest research. Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) and greenhouse gas emissions both depend on crop productivity. And despite the ups and downs of grain markets and input... Read more
Reset fields hit by resistant ryegrass
Arable 06/10/2023
Cultural controls are helping to rid fields of herbicide resistant ryegrass on a Nottinghamshire farm. It comes after father and son team Peter and Rob Barlow took on 160ha of land infested with the weed. Soil types vary from gravel through to heavy loam across the farm which encompasses... Read more
A ground-breaking partnership has seen a group of farmers team up with pet food company Nestlé Purina to undertake environmental work in Suffolk. Known as the High Suffolk Farm Cluster, the farmers are providing sites for bird boxes made by retired carpenter and naturalist Jim Peart and funded by... Read more
Growers are reminded to avoid short gaps between spraying off and drilling, which can leave a green bridge for aphids to survive and spread barley yellow dwarf virus into new crops. Cereal volunteers and some weed species can host grain aphids and bird cherry-oat aphids – both of which... Read more
Late-drilled rape can still be profitable
Arable 06/10/2023
Growers unable to drill oilseed rape until last month due to the wet summer can rest assured that sowing the crop in September is not necessarily a bad thing. Later drilled oilseed rape can still produce a profitable crop – if it is a phoma-resistant hybrid variety variety with... Read more
A change in the law means farmers must now provide photo identification before they purchase ammonium nitrate fertiliser this autumn. The law change came into effect on 1 October. It affects sales of AN fertilisers with a nitrogen content of 16% or more and represents a widening of the Control... Read more
MyField app makes agronomy easier
Arable 25/08/2023
Better blight forecasts are now readily available for potato growers thanks to the new Syngenta MyField app.
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