Written by Ian Gould from Oakbank Oakbank have been looking at ways to include a “Living Mulch” in an arable rotation for a number of years and we would like to thank Roger Davis and his team at Indigro for their collaboration with this work. Some of you may be familiar with this concept, but …
Joel Williams says this season presents some wonderful opportunities to test and trial some new approaches towards optimising N inputs – valuable lessons can be learnt for future seasons ahead. With fertiliser prices the way they are, I’m sure everyone is already thinking it is going to be an eyebrow raising season ahead. This year …
Using A Diversity Of Nitrogen Forms To Enhance Foliar Efficiencies Read More »
A new approach to crop trials will provide an essential insight into how seed varieties perform under different establishment systems, enabling better advice aimed at maximising performance in the field, including specifically for direct-drill systems. While the Recommended List (RL) trials have historically been designed to accurately reflect the genetic potential of a variety, and …
Detailed trials assessing a broad range of regenerative farming strategies on a progressive Durham farm are putting some solid science into efforts to improve arable sustainability by making the very most of above and below-ground biology. Now into their third season, the Agrii Green Horizons trials with David Hankey on his family’s 160ha Dunkirk Farm, …
Durham Farm Trials Put Solid Science Into Biological Farming Read More »
Teresa Meadows, AHDB Knowledge Exchange Manager, East Anglia, takes a look through the season and findings from the Strategic Cereal Farm East and West demonstrations for harvest 2020. As we come into the autumn time, it gives an opportunity to look back on the last harvest – yields, costs, margins and wider improvements to soils …
Editor Mike Donovan interprets a vital study on soil run-off from Finland Nutrient and soil run-off to water courses is a major concern in Finland, with land in the southwest of major concern. For more than 20 years farmers in the region have been involved in many efforts to reduce the problem. These have included …
Gypsum Trials Show Major Benefits On Soil And Phosphate Run-Off Read More »
Written by Ralph Early, Independent Food Scientist and Food Ethicist In the first of a two-part article, Ralph Early discusses the historical and current use of crop protection products andfocuses on the use of herbicides and insecticides Introduction Over millennia humans have established a particular relationship with the species they categorise as pests and it …
Crop Protection Products: Part Of The Modern Farmers’ Toolkit Read More »
While helping put together the last issue of Direct Driller magazine we were proofreading the article about Interagro’’sBridgeway Biosimulant product which you can read about further by scanning the code The results claimed for this product in winter wheat last year were impressive. We felt they needed to be put to the test on the …
Bridgeway Amino Acid Tramline Trails At TWB Farms Read More »
Direct Driller Magazine’s Farmer Focus writer David White arranged this visit following an invitation from David Purdy. On behalf of the Base members who were able to attend, grateful thanks go to David Purdy for hosting us as well as Craig Morgan, Niall Atkinson and Philip Wright for taking the time to share their expertise. …
BASE UK – Member Visit To Agrovista’s Lamport Project Trials On 8TH April 2019 Read More »
Just like growing cereals most people assume you need to do some form of cultivation to establish a cereal crop, or physically plant tubers into a loose soil to produce a viable potato crop? The Groundswell potato trial set out to showcase an alternative technique. The resulting crisps produced from the 2018 potato harvest are …
