Issue 30October 2024

The Time is Now: Why It’s the Perfect Moment to Get Behind Regenerative Agriculture

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Written by Angus Chalmers, Managing Director of RDP Comms The World Economic Forum defines regenerative agriculture as ‘a way of farming that focuses on soil health.’ This is its key premise, using nature’s recipe, soil, to achieve productivity goals rather than relying on ever more complex manmade interventions. The last agricultural revolution was transformational for …

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Beyond the barrel: the unique process behind the added fulvic acid in L-CBF BOOST

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By David Maxwell, sales director, QLF Agronomy The welcome addition of a family-owned distillery at the site where QLF Agronomy products are manufactured not only gave us a healthy supply of rum, but we have also been able to ‘boost’ our BOOST with added fulvic acid as a byproduct from the distilling process. Distinct Distillers …

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Early sown winter wheat returns to heavy land blackgrass site

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High yielding, profitable early-sown winter wheat crops are once again a regular feature on the heavy land rotations at Lamport AgX, Agrovista’s flagship trials site in Northamptonshire, despite a huge background population of blackgrass. Speaking at a recent open day, Niall Atkinson, consultant and Lamport AgX trials co-ordinator, said: “Historically, if wheats weren’t drilled by …

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Have you ever had a lightbulb go off in your head? A true ‘Aha’ moment?

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Daniel Iddon of Woodland Grow came to the realisation that the soils we use to grow plants often simply aren’t purpose ready even though there may be crops growing at the moment: you can do EVERYTHING right, but still not get the bumper crops due! Written by Erin Wiedmer, Director, Woodland Grow Ltd “How does …

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Agent in Focus – Peter Roberts

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Integrating Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) actions into Arable Contract Farming Agreements provides a number of challenges for agreements moving forward. Peter Roberts, Associate Partner in the Agribusiness team at leading property consultancy Fisher German, discusses the considerations ahead for farmers deciding on their best options now that Defra has launched SFI 24. With the decline …

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