I farm 155Ha owned at Greenknowe and around 100Ha contract farmed in Berwickshire, Scotland just 6 miles from the border at Coldstream. The land is clay and sandy loam, deep soils, very variable but the best of products to run an arable business on, any limiting factor is probably me! I do all the farm …
FASTER, STRONGER AND MORE COSTEFFECTIVE – NO-TILL REAPS REWARDS FOR BEDFORDSHIRE FARM Justin Bennion, Farmer at C H Bennion & Sons in Bedfordshire, believes that the industry is ultimately moving in the direction of no-till farming. To that end, he has invested accordingly. In adopting Weaving Machinery’s LD TopSoiler, Justin has discovered that the move …
Written by Ian Wilkinson from Cotswold Seeds Companion cropping can sometimes be a difficult term to define, but a learned fellow farmer, Andy Howard, describes it as growing two or more crops together, and that’s a definition I like, because it means diversity within plant species (which I firmly believe in), encompassing complex herbal leys …
Written by Jennifer Brodie from REMIN Scotland Ltd A 5-day FACTS Course at SRUC, Craibstone, Aberdeen confirmed our soil is a mix of 5 ingredients: air, water, decayed organic material, minerals and living organisms. After 15 years working with ancient Scottish basalt, that erupted onto Planet Earth 360 million years ago, before vertebrate life lived …
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MZURI SAYS DON’T COMPROMISE THIS SPRING Headed by farmer and engineer Martin Lole, Mzuri is a leading manufacturer of strip tillage seed drills that have been tried and tested on the company’s trial farm since its inception. Formally a conventionally managed farm heavily infested with a high burden of blackgrass and charlock, the Mzuri Pro-Til …
Mother nature was going to give me a kicking at some point! Since starting our no till journey, a couple of years ago, I haven’t really had too much to complain about. We have had two easy autumns where we were able to get a decent amount of ground drilled without too much of an …
There have only been a few times in my life I have been truly wow’d at an agricultural show. But I certainly have one more to add to the list after visiting the John Deere stand at Agritechnica 2019. As always, the stand was big, and we were very lucky to have Nathan Kramer from …
BASE-UK was established in 2012 and is independent of all businesses or organisations. We provide a forum for members to share information, experience and ideas on conservation agriculture, which includes topics such as minimum tillage, direct drilling, cover cropping, integration of livestock and many other techniques offering more sustainable agriculture by working in harmony with …
WET YEARS ARE NO GOOD FOR DIRECT DRILLS Oh dear! RAIN, RAIN, RAIN. “A wet seasons no good for direct drills LAD” is the chant we hear incessantly, often with no experience of any Direct Drill. Yes it is, unworked stubble stands more water than worked, cover crops stand much more water than anything else …
Written by Becky Willson from the Farm Carbon Cutting ToolkitThe old adage of you can’t manage what you can’t measure is certainly true of carbon accounting. But when it comes to agriculture, measuring carbon isn’t as simple as it may first seem. The variation of emissions and carbon stocks are due to the fact that …
