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Agronomist and Arable Farmer Newsletter March 2nd
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DSV’s new Duplo oilseed rape has the highest vigour rating of all the company’s new triple layered varieties combining exceptional yields with a feature set designed to protect gross outputs against the challenges of modern-day production, says the company’s Sarah Hawthorne. Added to the AHDB Candidate List for 2021, DSV Duplo features an oil content of 46.8% and a yield …
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BFS Fertiliser Services, a leading crop nutrition specialist, has released a third season of trial data which show that its revolutionary foliar fertiliser, PolyNPlusTM, reduces the overall nitrogen requirement by at least 25 per cent while maintaining or increasing crop yields. The agriculture industry is facing transformational reforms this year post-Brexit under the UK government’s promised comprehensive Net Zero Strategy …
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The crop plots at the Lincolnshire Cereals Event site have wintered well and are going into spring in strong shape, according to the event agronomist and site manager. A key feature of Cereals, the crop plots present visitors with a chance to see the latest varieties from a wide range of breeders. As June will mark two years since anyone …
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UK Scientists have used genome editing to reduce a cancer-causing compound commonly found in toast. Acrylamide forms during bread baking and its presence is further increased when bread is toasted, and the darker the toast, the more of this carcinogenic compound it contains. Now a team led by Rothamsted Research with colleagues from the University of Bristol have used the …
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The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, RABI, has launched the largest ever research project relating to the wellbeing of farmers, farm works and their families. The Big Farming Survey is aimed at understanding people’s physical and mental wellbeing within the sector, as well as the health of farming businesses. With mounting pressures and continued uncertainty in the sector, this research will …
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Making better use of existing soil phosphorus reserves will greatly reduce the risk of spring-sown crops running short of this essential nutrient during establishment. Spring cereals in particular have a high demand for P in the first few weeks after germination. But they are often unable to secure enough to support optimum growth even where the nutrient appears to be …
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Leaf samples sent to Bayer’s SpotCheck light leaf spot identification service are showing high levels of disease across the country, prompting warnings to growers to be on the alert for infection and to apply a fungicide as soon as symptoms are observed. Ella Crawford, commercial technical manager at Bayer, says, “Throughout late autumn and into the early part of 2021 …
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