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Agronomist and Arable Farmer Newsletter Jan 12th 2021
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JCB is launching a new range of Loadall telescopic handlers featuring more powerful Euro Stage V emissions-compliant engines - and offering the unique DualTech Variable Transmission on additional models. The award-winning transmission, which combines hydrostatic drive for low speeds and powershift mechanical direct drive at faster speeds for the ultimate in performance and versatility, is no longer reserved for the …
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The British farmer-owned grain marketing and arable inputs co-operative has reported profits of £0.4m for the year to 30 June 2020 (2019: Profit £0.5m), in line with expectations. Openfield not only performed well for its members but also positioned itself confidently to face into the challenging 2020 harvest. As a result, the profit was impacted by the restructure of its …
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LG Skyscraper has joined an elite group of varieties that have topped the Recommended List for three successive seasons. Only three other varieties (KWS Santiago, Oakley and Glasgow) have achieved this feat since 2004, showing how impressive this achievement is. “Whilst newer varieties have joined the Recommended List since LG Skyscraper‘s recommendation in 2018, the variety continues to dominate and …
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The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has delivered its best ever December payment performance and paid just under 98% of Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claims despite the challenges caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. Payments during December were made to around 82,500 eligible claimants and were worth more than £1.77 billion in total, making it the best performance since the scheme opened in …
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David Bouch, Hutchinsons national seeds manager, provides his thoughts on spring 2021 and recommendations for spring seed varieties. We approach a spring likely to be vastly different to that of 2020. A large proportion of the farming community had never experienced such a cropping year (and hopefully never will again), where there was a very sizeable amount of spring cropping …
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The agriculture industry has committed to reaching Net-Zero carbon emissions by 2040 and for arable farmers, this will require substantial reductions in the greenhouse gas intensities of crop products, as well as increased storage of carbon in the farm system. Crucially, for a Net-Zero approach to be successfully adopted by as many possible, growers first need to come together to …
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Controlling weeds in winter and spring linseed will now be much easier with the approval of an Extension of Authorisation for Minor Use (EAMU) registration for the maize herbicide Basilico. Manufactured by off-patent manufacturers Life Scientific, Basilico contains 100 g/l mesotrione and is reverse engineered from the reference product, Callisto. Previously used as a post emergence herbicide in crops of …
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