HIGH HOPES FOR HARVEST With crops on the farm showing great promise, output prices at record levels and the family’s agricultural machinery business operating at capacity, Suffolk arable farmer and inventor of the Opti-Till® direct strip seeding system Jeff Claydon is optimistic for the months ahead. But it is tinged with caution, the watchword in …
Following directly on from my January ramblings , I was lucky enough to have a couple of frosty nights in early Feb which allowed me to roll 30 Ha of cover crops with our 10 m roll on the controlled traffic wheelings. I got pretty well 100% kill on everything rolled in the early hours …
TYRE TECHNOLOGIES TAKING SOIL PROTECTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL With farm machinery getting increasingly heavier, tyre manufacturers are having to work harder than ever to ensure their products are keeping damage in the field to a minimum. Here we speak to Gordon Brookes, Customer Engineering Support Manager at Michelin, to learn more about the latest …
As I write I am sure we are all looking forward to Groundswell, getting off the farm is an important thing for many reasons. I still tell people about last years’ experience and how much I learnt. What a time to be a farmer, who could have predicted the chain of events leading up to …
STRIGER STRIP-TILL FOCUS In response to the growing interest in minimal tillage cultivations, KUHN has developed its Striger strip-till range and will be showing the machine at Groundswell 2022. Available from 4 to 12 rows, the Striger 100 is designed around a parallelogram system that allows all elements to operate independently, ensuring excellent ground following …
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 …
Nitrogen Fertiliser Application Strategies Explored Read More »
Written by Vikki Campbell – Arable Market Specialist Manager I have looked through the impact Mark’s nitrogen fertiliser application scenarios (previous article) could have for harvest 2022. But what about harvest 2023? We looked at gross margin calculations for harvest 2023, the reality showing that, unsurprisingly, margins could well be squeezed to a greater degree …
What Could The Impact Be On Harvest 2023 From High Input Costs? Read More »
Written by Megan Hesketh – Senior Analyst – Arable We are fast approaching harvest 22 and looking now to harvest 23 for cropping decisions, but the cost and margin picture looks very different to this time last year. UK feed wheat new crop futures (Nov-22) closed yesterday at £340.10/t. This is almost double the price …
Analyst Insight: How Are Margins Looking For Harvests’ 22 And 23? Read More »
Written by Megan Hesketh – Senior Analyst – Arable We are fast approaching harvest 22 and looking now to harvest 23 for cropping decisions, but the cost and margin picture looks very different to this time last year. UK feed wheat new crop futures (Nov-22) closed yesterday at £340.10/t. This is almost double the price …
Analyst Insight: How Are Margins Looking For Harvest’ 22 And 23? Read More »
Yet another challenging Spring! Don’t you just love farming! It’s what I love most even though I moan (according to my wife) but if it was easy, everybody would want to do it! Every year is a new challenge, bringing new decisions, sometimes things go wrong sometimes they work spectacularly well. Canola was drilled the …
