Have a look at all the content in Issue 22 of Direct Driller Magazine
Step or Incremental Change: A Strategic Decision
When many people think about technology in farming, they envisage the big step changes such…
Can Tech save Carbon from a crisis?
Tom Allen-Stevens travels forward to 2030 and looks for the farmers who would emerge strengthened…
Issue 30 – Contents
Inside this issue: Introduction Defra Answers your SFI 2024 Questions Farmer Focus – Tim Parton…
Introduction
Written by Mike Donovan What will be the farming policy be for the new government?…
Defra Answers your SFI 2024 Questions
Written by Chris Fellows After the interruption of a General Election, Defra have been able…
Farmer Focus – Tim Parton
September 2024 How one’s life can change between articles! You never think anything is ever…
Mycorrhiza manipulation: nature vs nurture
Mycorrhiza can be added to systems physically via inoculation or encouraged from surrounding environments Inoculation…
Restoring farmland biodiversity: The Allerton Project
The Allerton Project, as a research and demonstration farm, has been in operation since 1992….
Stow Longa delivers vital insights into carbon and nitrogen efficiency
With its current trials programme now entering its tenth year, Agrii’s Stow Longa site, near…
Farmer Focus – John Pawsey
September 2024 Alice and my pre harvest holiday was with Wild With Consent whose website…
Glyphosate or tillage: which is worse for soils?
Which is the lesser of two evils – glyphosate or tillage? That’s what Rothamsted Research’s…
Farmer Focus – Andrew Jackson
September 2024 Another year has passed and although I am without doubt a bit older,…
Getting emissions down in a measured way
Written by Rob Nightingale from Frontier “Yield is king!” This was a tag line in…
The Time is Now: Why It’s the Perfect Moment to Get Behind Regenerative Agriculture
Written by Angus Chalmers, Managing Director of RDP Comms The World Economic Forum defines regenerative…
Beyond the barrel: the unique process behind the added fulvic acid in L-CBF BOOST
By David Maxwell, sales director, QLF Agronomy The welcome addition of a family-owned distillery at…
Farmer Focus – Andy Cato
September 2024 The deluge of the last few days, following the wettest winter since 1836…
Timing is everything
Reflecting on last season’s challenges and the lessons learned Jeff Claydon, Suffolk arable farmer and…
Early sown winter wheat returns to heavy land blackgrass site
High yielding, profitable early-sown winter wheat crops are once again a regular feature on the…
Farmer Focus – Andy Howard
Innovation: Fun but potentially painful I was recently nominated for the BBC’s food and Farming…
Have you ever had a lightbulb go off in your head? A true ‘Aha’ moment?
Daniel Iddon of Woodland Grow came to the realisation that the soils we use to…
Your SFI questions answered at Cereals
The new regen agriculture section at Cereals provided growers the chance to receive advice from…
Farmer Focus – Julian Gold
September 2024 Harvest 24 has been surprisingly good. We were blessed with fairly good weather…
Agent in Focus – Peter Roberts
Integrating Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions into Arable Contract Farming Agreements provides a number of…
BASE UK
We are the premier organisation, dedicated to promoting independent, farmer led, regenerative agricultural knowledge across…
Adapting nitrogen at Strategic Cereal Farms
Senior Knowledge Transfer Manager Henny Lowth introduces the nitrogen trials at AHDB Strategic Cereal Farms,…
Drill Manufacturer – Amazone and Ian Partridge
Based in Aberdeenshire, Ian Partridge owns and runs, along with the family, 800 acres of…
Rotational complexity increases cropping system output
A summary of the paper published in One Earth, Volume 7, Issue 9, 20 September 2024,…
Turning soil, crop and cow health around on tricky land
A move towards biological farming is setting one mixed farm up for a better future….