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Agronomist and Arable Farmer November 11th
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Cover crops are an increasingly important part of the farming system at Balbirnie Home Farms, AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farm in Scotland, where the aim is to have living root in the soils all year round to build fertility and improve resilience. The effects of this strategy are monitored with the aid of the Soil Health Scorecard. Speaking at the soil …
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Join Limagrain UK at the Croptec Show in Peterborough on 24 & 25 November. As sponsors of the Plant Breeding Hub, Limagrain UK will host a range of talks covering the latest innovations in plant breeding and how they are being applied on-farm. Wednesday 24th November 20-10.55amLimagrain UK’s Pulse Breeder, Will Pillinger will cover the latest developments in pulse breeding and explain how …
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The November 2021 issue is now available online! News: Pepsico funds oat growers for leaf membership News: poor soil is ‘security threat’ News: new sprout control available News Analysis: farming on a large scale with Velcourt News Analysis: government warned over elms Opinion: mists and mellow fruitfulness Grain Handling: bespoke grain drying system to futureproof succesion Agronomy Matters: stripper header …
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Novel and improved crop traits delivered by one of the world’s most advanced plant breeding programmes will be the core focus on the RAGT Seeds stand at LAMMA 22. Visitors will be able to talk to RAGT plant breeders and members of the commercial team about the latest combinable and forage crop developments as well as soil health plants. The …
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Bury St. Edmunds MP Jo Churchill, visited Limagrain UK to see how plant breeding is helping UK farmers to be more sustainable. On Friday 5th November, politics and plant breeding came together as Jo Churchill, MP for Bury St Edmunds, who is also Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Agri-Innovation and Climate Adaptation within DEFRA, visited Limagrain UK’s wheat breeding …
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Arable Chat is back with a brand-new episode which sees two inspirational arable farmers join us to talk about sustainability and the future of the arable farming industry. In light of the COP26 conference this month Matt Waldie, fourth generation farmer and manager of Gilston Mains in Fife, Scotland talks about his experience supplying and growing oats for Quaker Oats, …
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Arable farmers could soon have a range of novel bio-fungicides to help in the fight against wheat disease Septoria, thanks to the launch of a new Innovate UK-funded project. The work will screen bacteria for use as natural fungicide products, and is being conducted by Agri-Tech Innovation Centre, CHAP (Crop Health & Protection) in collaboration with London-based biotechnology company, Bactobio Ltd. The …
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ICL Boulby, the world’s first and only producer of the ground-breaking mineral polyhalite, is continuing to break production records—and has increased sales volume by over 90per cent in the third quarter of the year compared to 2020. The progress has continued over the last month with the mine hitting its highest hoist of over 90,000 tonnes and recording its best …
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