Author Posts: Farmers Guide
Maintain body condition score for successful lambing period
12th December 2017
As the final stages of gestation approach, sheep farmers are being urged to feed their ewes enough to ensure successful foetal growth and development, and maintain body condition score, which
Make the right call with cover crop kill
8th December 2017
Effective cover crop destruction will be more important than ever ahead of spring crops this season to avoid compromising establishment and performance, insist industry advisers.
AN delivering extra yield
8th December 2017
Straight 34.5%N produced an extra 0.4t/ha of milling wheat over crops using a urea fertiliser as their only source of nitrogen in 2017 according to new trial results announced by CF Fertilisers at CropTec 2017.
The challenge of the bottom line
8th December 2017
The latest data from Promar’s Farm Business Accounts (FBA) for the year-ending March 2017, shows that the upturn in on-farm milk prices came too late in the year to hugely
Case IH appoints new dealers in Lancashire and Norfolk
5th December 2017
Case IH has appointed two new UK dealers to enhance network coverage, increase sales and deliver customer satisfaction.
Agronomy Update
27th November 2017
The jobs list on arable farms is growing with fungicide applications foremost in growers’ minds
Machine of the Year 2018 title awarded to latest Maxxum
15th November 2017
Case IH wins Machine of the Year 2018 title with new Maxxum Multicontroller with ActiveDrive 8 transmission ActiveDrive 8 offers eight powershift steps in each of three ranges / Total of
New head of British Beet Research Organisation appointed
15th November 2017
NFU Sugar and British Sugar have announced that Dr Vicky Foster has been appointed as the new head of the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO). Vicky joins BBRO on 19
Spring oat opportunities
15th November 2017
With the right modern agronomy, oats offer one of the most attractive spring cropping options for difficult black-grass ground, in particular, believes Agrii northern R&D manager, Jim Carswell. Not least
Building spring cropping security
15th November 2017
Planned increases in the areas of many spring crops this season make it more important than ever to produce for secure markets offering price or premium guarantee, growers were advised
2018 budgets show relative spring cropping value and risk
15th November 2017
Spring crops are set to be as profitable as most winter plantings other than wheat and oilseed rape in 2018 according to the latest Agrii crop budgeting figures unveiled at a special briefing at Bishop Burton College this month.
Defra sounds death-knell for the use of sound science in agricultural policy – Bayer
14th November 2017
Bayer has reacted strongly to the announcement by Secretary of State for Defra, Michael Gove MP that he will ‘in principle’ support the European Commission’s proposal to ban the use
