In the third part of our series on sap analysis, Mike Abram learns how to interpret the results You’ve taken your leaf sample, packaged it up and sent it to the Netherlands, and now the results have landed in your inbox. There’s a whole ray of bars and numbers for just about every nutrient you …
This year the University of Leeds has launched a project researching regenerative farming systems in Yorkshire. This project is part of the FixOurFood programme led by the University of York, funded by UK Research and Innovation, a government fund to support research to investigate ways to transform the UK food system. As the challenge to …
Multi-year soil health study measuring differences in nutrient availability Over the past several years, agricultural industries have been focused on the Nitrogen(N) portion for improving soil and plant efficiency. However, we cannot forget the importance of the remaining primary, secondary, and micronutrients. This research report highlights how L-CBF not only capitalizes on N use efficiency …
Chris Fellows reviews important research into this ignored gas which pollutes our atmosphere. Reducing tillage could result in less production of a potent greenhouse gas, according to a study out of Penn State University. Nitrous oxide, also known as “laughing gas,” is the most important greenhouse gas after methane and carbon dioxide and the biggest …
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Mark Topliff, AHDB Lead Analyst – Farm Economics, uses Farmbench data to illustrate how crops performed in 2021, and provide costings estimates for 2022 and a forecast for 2023. The analysis Conventional combinable crop enterprise performance results(11,584) were analysed in Farmbench (ahdb.org.uk/Farmbench)for the 2017 to 2021 harvest years. Results are presented across three performance groups: …
What do you read? 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 and understand the position of non-farmers. We have listed a few more …
In the second part of Direct Driller’s series exploring sap analysis, Mike Abram finds out about the science behindnutrient use in plants Nutrients are vital for life but if they get out of balance it can cause either deficiencies or excesses that restrict plant productivity. Sap analysis is a tool to help growers understand the …
Written by Tom Allen-Stevens Balbirnie Home Farms in Fife, Scotland, has been on a regenerative agriculture journey, testing aspects of this within its role as an AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm. A tour of the estate highlights its natural capital assets, helping to determine its carbon baseline and the opportunities to develop. Standing at the edge …
Written by Mark Topliff – Lead Analyst: Farm Economics It’s been a challenging time for growers wondering what to do around their fertiliser buying and application strategies off the back of higher prices over the last few months. However, using one of AHDB’s virtual farm models, analysis of the most common approaches shows that you …
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Maintaining plant health to reduce inputs is a key goal for many regenerative systems. In this series of articlesMike Abram explores how plant sap analysis could help deliver this Much like with our own health a balanced diet is important for maintaining health and ultimately maximising yield and quality of crop plants. Some of the …
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