Farm Trial Results

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 …

Are These The World’s First No-Till Crisps? Read More »

The journey of an agricultural dealership to be able to offer customers more… At the Farm Expo Show at the Kent County Showground, we got a chance to hear from the team at Burden Brothers about the field trials they have started. George Whelan and Kris Romney were on stage talking to the farmers who …

Burden Brothers – Total Crop Solutions Read More »

Clive Bailye writes … ‘Last autumn I was asked by a Hungarian company Terragro to run some tramline trials of their Biofil product.’http://www.terragro.hu/products/ The product sounds good, it is the result of 12 years of EU grant funded research and Teragro are the winners of several awards for innovation and research into bacterial strains for …

2019 Biological Inoculant Trials Read More »

Tom Molloy and Ellen Mallory University of Maine Cooperative Extension Organic field peas are of interest in Maine as a high protein feed source and a rotation crop for cereals. A trial was established at the University of Maine’s Aroostook Farm in Presque Isle in 2013 to demonstrate organic field pea production for grain. The …

Field Pea Demonstration Trial 2013 Results Read More »

The almost forgotten technique in the UK of grazing cereals is something being widely practiced across Australia in areas with widely varying rainfall levels. The Australian Grain Research and Development Council have produced a report titled Grain and Graze which sets out to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of grazing a range of cash crops. …

GRAZING CROPPED LAND Read More »

The winners of the FCCT Soil Farmer of the Year competition opened their gates over four days and provided a veritable masterclass in managing soils. Spanning a range of soil types, management systems and enterprises, attending farmers gained insights into their award winning management and a better understanding as to why these farms had been …

FARM WALKS WITH THE SOIL FARMERS OF THE YEAR 2018 Read More »