Author Posts: Farmers Guide
Cost benefits and peace of mind offered when using a bolus
14th September 2016
Getting your sheep into the best possible condition before they enter their most challenging times of the year – pre-tupping or post-scanning – is crucial, says Tom Darling from Agrimin.
Oilseed rape performs despite hard growing season
13th September 2016
Oilseed rape has had a difficult year, with yields down across the board – but there are still advantages to growing it, as one grower in Cambridgeshire reveals. Philip Hart
Strong demand prompts valuable new winter malting barley contract
13th September 2016
Strong craft-brewing demand for high quality new two row winter malting barley, Rubinesse provides an opportunity for growers across central England to earn premiums of £10-£25/t from a specialist Agrii/Glencore
Don’t let crop nutrition be an afterthought
13th September 2016
As harvest comes to the end, growers are turning their attention to decisions on rotations, seed varieties, and crop establishment. Some will already be discussing crop protection plans for the
Timely sprays to protect emerging OSR
13th September 2016
Most oilseed rape growers have opted for earlier sowing this season, in an effort to get crops up and away ahead of flea beetle damage. Warm soils has certainly helped
Latest diet feeders feature at Dairy Day
13th September 2016
KUHN Farm Machinery will display a range of bedding, feeding and baling equipment at this year’s UK Dairy Day, with its self-propelled mixer/feeder wagon making one of its first
Cereal growers asked to report unexpected aphid control failures
9th September 2016
Cereal growers are being asked to safeguard the efficacy of aphicides by reporting control failures and sending off aphid samples for resistance analysis. The request forms part of a UK
Resist early drilling temptation where black-grass threatens
9th September 2016
Growers must hold-off drilling winter wheat on land affected by black-grass for at least another month or risk fire-fighting this pernicious weed for the rest of the season. That is
Three new directors join Oxford Farming Conference board
7th September 2016
A farmer, broadcaster and a scientist will join The Oxford Farming Conference board (OFC) as its new directors in January 2017. Matthew Naylor, Anna Hill and Professor Nigel Scollan will
Three new companies sign up to ESTA
7th September 2016
Three new companies have enrolled in the European Seed Treatment Association (ESTA), which is operated in the UK by the Agricultural Industries Confederation. The three companies are KWS UK Ltd,
Urgent work on BPS payments needed by RPA, says NFU
7th September 2016
The RPA must iron out a number of problems that still exist with 2015 BPS payments, the NFU said today, with less than three months until the 2016 window opens.
Liver fluke and lungworm threaten livestock this autumn
7th September 2016
Sheep farmers in Scotland, North Wales and North West England should prepare for high levels of liver fluke disease this autumn, while cattle farmers across the UK must remain alert