Written by Becky Willson, Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit The Soil Farmer of the Year competition aims to find, promote and champion farmers who are passionate about safeguarding their soils and building resilient businesses. The competition is now in its fourth year and attracts amazing farmers who are running a range of different enterprises and management …
A very warm welcome to this new issue of Direct Driller. There’s much to get your teeth into, including topics that are new but highly relevant. A glimpse into the future shows new crops on the cusp of becoming commercial. Why, for example, have we yet to realise the potential of rye? And in the …
Farm Manager at Overbury Farms The Farm Overbury Farms is an integrated part of Overbury Enterprises which has been in the same family for over 250 years. It is a mixed farm that produces a range of crops including wheat, barley, oilseed rape (OSR), pease, linseed and soya beans. We also let out certain areas …
We are often asked how much of the UK’s farmed acres are direct drilled. It isn’t easy to answer exactly, but the easy answer is that it is always increasing. Data seems to suggest between 8% and 12% is no-tilled, but given all the confusion over naming, we are not sure that even this is …
Written by George Hepburn from QLF Agronomy I have worked with farmers on their inputs for the last 15 years. I worked with Soil Fertility Services for 12 years as a Soil Fertility Advisor, advising many farmers on soil health and nutrition. For the last two years I have worked for QLF Agronomy (based in …
How To Improve Yield And Quality After Applying Your Normal Inputs? Read More »
Written by Jerry Alford from the Soil Association There has recently been a lot of interest in the potential of organic no-till and it has been described by some as the holy grail of organic arable farming. It is also something that is of interest to non-organic farms because of the potential to reduce inputs, …
An Alternative System of Crop Nutrition Back in 1894, Julius Hensel wrote Bread From Stones which proposed the idea that all the minerals plants need are present in rocks. He used the annual flooding of farmland beside the River Nile as an example, where the soil’s fertility was maintained for thousands of years by sediment …
Just after Groundswell in June, the Sustainable Food Trust held an event at Fir Farm titled “Farming and Climate Change: Towards net Zero Carbon Emissions.” Climate change and the ability of farming to be #TheSolution has been in the farming media a lot recently and there were a number of mainstream journalists at the event …
Weed resistance is becoming a major issue for crop production. The International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weedscollates information from researchers worldwide on the spread of weed resistance. Today resistance is present in morethan 250 weed species infesting nearly 100 crops and affecting 23 of the 26 known herbicide modes of action. Lookingat the highest selling …
Herbicide Resistance Targeted By New Oxford Tech Firm MOA Technology Read More »
By Phil Jarvis, head of farming at the GWCT Allerton Project, as based on information found on Agricology (www.agricology.co.uk ).Life is all about choices, some turn out well and others can fire a whole load of challenges your way. The same is true aswe develop our agricultural businesses from dipping a toe in the water …
