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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Innovative Farmers Look for Alternatives to Glyphosate to Terminate Cover CropsAnglia Farmers are running a new field lab through the Innovative Farmers network, investigating alternative ways to terminate cover crops.Many farmers rely on the chemical herbicide glyphosate to destroy unwanted crops at certain points within the crop rotation, but with uncertainty over its future availability …
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Mycorrhizal Fungi And Cultural Diversity and Their Significant Increase in No-Till SystemsOriginally written by Claudia Maurer et al. and published in TCS in February 2015 The Swiss trial site at “Oberacker” has been comparing tillage and ploughing systems for over 20 years and continually assess the quantity and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi in various different …
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Asda arranged and funded a ‘Soil Masters’ tour of a number of US farms which have been in the forefront of no-till techniques. The main part of the bursary project was to explore the feasibility of combining arable and beef farming using a combination of no till farming practices which include all year round crop …
Mike Donovan reviews the seminal Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture given by Professor Amir Kassam titled The Future of Farming: What needs to Change? The audience learned that, in the opinion of the professor at any rate, it was quite a lot. His concern is that agriculture has moved dangerously off course onto a path of …
