Harvest now seems like a distant memory; thank goodness you say! We seemed to get away reasonably light here in S.E. Scotland compared to many others around the UK. I still run two systems on some crops, and I can compare the results rather than wonder what if? It started with the poorest crop this …
Teresa Meadows, AHDB Knowledge Exchange Manager, East Anglia, takes a look through the season and findings from the Strategic Cereal Farm East and West demonstrations for harvest 2020. As we come into the autumn time, it gives an opportunity to look back on the last harvest – yields, costs, margins and wider improvements to soils …
Written by Tom Chapman – Mob Grazing Specialist at EnviRumen Ltd The value that grazing ruminants bring to soil is, once again, starting to be appreciated by farmers. The combination of their dung, urine, saliva and hoof action, plus the effect of the forage plants, all help to bring dramatic and welcome improvements in soil …
An online soil guide aiming to become the world’s most comprehensive resource to help farmers improve soil healthand increase the efficiency and profitability of their businesses has been launched. The Good Soil Guide – a collaboration between Yorkshire Water, Yorkshire supply chain consultancy Future Food Solutions and expert soil scientist Neil Fuller – is a …
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DRILLING FLEXIBILITY UNDERPINS PROGRESS TOWARDS GREENER FARMING Yorkshire arable farmers Julian and Scott Hopwood are taking important steps towards a more sustainable farming future. With 500 acres of relatively light Vale of York land, growing a rotation including winter and spring cereals, oilseed rape and breaks such as spring beans and peas, they have started …
Déjà Vu? Another fun drilling season….I am pleased to say we are drilled up bar about 50 hectares on some poorly drained blackgrassy land which was always on the list to do last. This will now be better off as spring barley. Last season was very difficult, we did not get enough drilled and were …
Written by Liz Bowles from the Soil Association The role of verification, certification and labelling to drive meaningful positive impact on our food production systems Measuring performance Amidst the explosion in interest in how farmers can achieve environmental best practice without negatively impacting food production, an increasing number of schemes, labels and tools for measuring …
Written by Thomas Gent from Gentle Farming Regenerative Agriculture is becoming a buzzword in the non-agricultural business community, sustainability and the circular economy will become more impactful in the coming years. Consumers are now aware of the eco credentials of the businesses they are spending their money with. This is driving businesses across the country …
We didn’t think we would get a wetter autumn than last year……we were wrong. I definitely remember farmers telling me that last autumns rain was only a freak occurrence and it wouldn’t occur twice in as many years. Well nature had other ideas and it has meant that after 130mm of rain over the first …
PRESERVING UK SOIL MICROBIAL BIODIVERSITY FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Written by Wayne Coles at CABI Scientists from the UK’s foremost agricultural research institutes have teamed up to create a new UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank (UK-CMCB) to safeguard future research and facilitate the sustainable yield improvement of the UK’s six major food crops including barley, oats, oil …
