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Dr Jon Knight, AHDB Head of Crop Protection assesses the shifting political emphasis on environmental protection and the future for Integrated Pest Management What is Integrated Pest management (IPM)? The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations definition is as follows: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) means the careful consideration of all available pest control …

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Written by Mark Atkins of Bio Farming Limited In 2015 a colleague who operates a company supplying various biological based products into the agricultural marketasked if I could make a product from him as his current supplier was increasing costs that would take it beyond what isviable for the farmer and agricultural applications. After studying …

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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. …

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Virus-spreading aphids and the risk they pose to winter cereal crops are the subjects of a new management tool and aresearch project funded by AHDB. Barley/cereal yellow dwarf viruses (BYDV) are mainly transmitted by the bird cherry–oat aphid and the grain aphid – via wingless and winged forms. Wingless aphids, which live on grass or …

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By Einböck, from their Organic Farming Guidebook In spring of 2017, organic spring wheat and soybeans were sown in plots (4000 m² each). Each crop was seeded once in standard row (row spacing 13 cm / 5”) and on wide row (row spacing 37.5 cm / 15”). Location The test area is located at 4751 …

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By Richard HardingOrganic’s potential for whole farm improvements came under focus at the UK’s largest organic on-farm event The 2018 National Organic Combinable Crops (NOCC) conference brought organic and non-organic growers together to hear the benefits organic systems bring to the farm business and the farmed environment. It is noticeable again this year the increasing …

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AHDB’s Petworth Monitor Farm group reignited two popular debates at their recent meeting (18 October 2018): discs versus tines and ‘to till or not to till’. The Monitor Farm group is hosted by Mark Chandler at Moor Farm in West Sussex. Mark and the other farmers in the group wanted to see how different levels …

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NEW BIOSTIMULANT PRODUCTS PRODUCE EXCELLENT RESULTS IN 2018 DROUGHT CONDITIONS British biotechnology company, AminoA Biostimulants launched their new liquid range of biostimulant products In July 2017 , so harvest 2018 has been an excellent test of their performance in some extreme conditions. AminoA FLO is a highly concentrated l-isomer amino-acid complex developed for the large …

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