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Written by Vikki Campbell – Arable Market Specialist Manager I have looked through the impact Mark’s nitrogen fertiliser application scenarios (previous article) could have for harvest 2022. But what about harvest 2023? We looked at gross margin calculations for harvest 2023, the reality showing that, unsurprisingly, margins could well be squeezed to a greater degree …

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Written by Megan Hesketh – Senior Analyst – Arable We are fast approaching harvest 22 and looking now to harvest 23 for cropping decisions, but the cost and margin picture looks very different to this time last year. UK feed wheat new crop futures (Nov-22) closed yesterday at £340.10/t. This is almost double the price …

Analyst Insight: How Are Margins Looking For Harvests’ 22 And 23? Read More »

If you are like us, then you don’t know where to start when it comes to other reading apart from farming magazines.However, there is so much information out there that can help us understand our businesses, farm better andunderstand the position of non-farmers. We have listed a few more books you might find interesting, challenge …

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Thank you to those who has signed up to be a Direct Driller Patron after the last issue. Our farmer writers are now rewarded for sharing their hard-earned knowledge and our readers have the facility to place a value upon that. The Direct Driller Patron programme gives readers the opportunity to “pay it forward” and …

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This is a great example of how the world changes and with it our better understanding of farming methods. Jethro Tull (1674– 1741) was an early English agricultural experimentalist whose book The New Horse Hoeing Husbandry: An Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation was published in 1731. It was the first textbook on …

The Principles Of Tillage And What We Have Learned Since Read More »

Nuffield Farming Scholar Andy Howard reflects on his Nuffield Scholarship and what it has enabled him to achieve since… There were two key moments that got my Nuffield journey to the starting point. The first was sitting in a car with my friend and local farmer Tom Sewell, who was at that time in the …

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Written by Richard Rawlings, Agronomist, Zantra Ltd and Robert Patten, PlantWorks LtdThe application of nitrogen on-farm will be under pressure in spring 2022, due both to its price, at the time of writing hovering at £650.00 /t and its availability, so far government intervention has done little to ease either price or supply. The reason …

In Search Of The Missing 30KG Of Nitrogen Per Hectare Read More »

In just its first year of building the UK’s first digital buying group Farmdeals has secured many reputable suppliers in most areas of the UK for products such as fuel, fertilisers and feed. However, it has been disappointing that to date we have been unable to supply a full range of crop protection products. Despite …

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