Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Integrated pest management, or IPM, is nothing new but it’s critical that farmers can demonstrate how and when they are using it, delegates were told in the opening address at December’s AHDB Agronomists’ Conference. Dominic Kilburn writes.

Controlling the UK’s number one wheat disease of Septoria; the loss of multi-site fungicide chlorothalonil; having fewer fungicide active ingredients in general; and control of yellow rust.

Where drilling of winter wheat has been delayed, the crop nutrition strategy should be adapted to help recover the lost yield potential.

Landquip is using LAMMA 2020 to unveil new products from both its Crop Sprayers business and its new Terra Solutions arm, which focuses on both import and UK manufacturing at Landquip’s Suffolk factory of cultivation equipment.

A Free Trailer safety Towing App giving quick and easy access to manufacturers daily, monthly and preseason checks at the click of a button.

Despite a difficult autumn, the Cereals Event reports 100 per cent of exhibitor crop plots at the Cambridgeshire site were drilled and growing by the end of October.

A Yorkshire farm is hosting a special event to demonstrate how growing Miscanthus has helped to stabilise flooded soils and reduce flooding on the farm.

A new fast-fit flail system for Kuhn hedge cutters will see Lamma visitors go toe-to-toe for a chance to win scale models of the machine.

Heavy rainfall and saturated ground conditions have left pastures lacking in nutrients for out-wintered sucklers and ewes, nutritionists have warned.

The driving ease and productivity benefits of CVT transmissions technology available in latest Landini tractors will be highlighted on the Argo Tractors stand at the LAMMA show in January.

Boris Johnson has pledged to “get Brexit done” by 31 January “no ifs, no buts,” in his victory speech after a landslide victory for the Conservatives.

Failed oilseed rape that received autumn nitrogen will not impact on Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) limits for any replacement crop sown in the spring, advises agronomy firm Farmacy.