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Extensive flooding across Scotland has caused significant damage to farmland, crops and infrastructure. The extreme rainfall across much of Scotland on Friday, Saturday and Sunday has left many of Scotland’s farmers and crofters using the next 24 to 48 hours to assess the scale of damage and the impact to their businesses. With a yellow weather warning for rain in …
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Resilience is the subject of the first AHDB monitor farm events of the season. The first at the Wisbech site on Thursday 2nd November will be hosted by Andrew and Sam Melton, they will be joined by Gary Markham, Director of Farms & Estates at Rural Tax Accountants, Land Family Business. On the agenda is the need to understand your …
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Stay patient and only begin planting fields with a known black-grass burden in the second half of October. That’s the message for farmers as good soil moisture and temperature should result in positive results from stale seedbeds this autumn. Last year, a dry August and September led to many cultural controls being much less effective than usual. Reduced crop competition …
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Arable and mixed farmers are being sought to help shape a new mobile phone app that could help them tackle on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. During a workshop at Glensaugh research farm near Laurencekirk, researchers from The James Hutton Institute will demonstrate the app prototype, which, alongside on-farm sensors, will estimate GHG emissions and point to ways to reduce and …
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Adding an adjuvant to herbicide sprays can improve the retention of actives in soils. Research by the Soil Science & Plant Cultivation Institute in Poland over the last three seasons has shown up to 6% more herbicide retained in the upper soil layer, boosting weed control. With residual herbicide performance often at the mercy of the weather incorporating an adjuvant …
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The October 2023 issue is now available online In this issue, SFI applications are now open, but the NFU is calling for DEFRA to delay the cuts in Basic Payments until issues are resolved. BOFIN’s Tom Allen Stevens says that it’s time for growers to take a lead in agri-research…
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