Tagged: cover crop
Budweiser Barley Delivers Wider Sustainability in Buckinghamshire
April 12, 2021
Feed barley yields with a good premium from difficult ground ill-suited to traditional malting production for an input cost of less than £65/tonne. The Budweiser barley-growing maths certainly add-up for farms manager, Chris Singer and his team at the Carington… Read more
Tagged # barley, budweiser, convensitonal, cover crop, gross margin, high yield, spring crop, Sustainability
Transitioning to No-Till on heavy ground
February 12, 2021
Regenerative agriculture based on the least possible tillage is attracting growing interest across the UK for the opportunities it offers to improve soil health and resilience, increase farmland biodiversity, and cut carbon emissions. However, direct drilling experiences of the past… Read more
Tagged # Agrii benchamrking, AgriiMAP, andrew richards, better soil structure, cash crop, cover crop, diversity of soil, farm benchmarking, grower, heavy land, MAP, no-till, organic matter, regenerative agriculture, soil health, Soil structure, surface drainage
Right Rotational Regime Pays Dividends in Grassweed Management
July 29, 2020
Getting your rotational regime right on bad black-grass ground can be worth almost £650/ha/year in extra gross margin, together with a 25,000 seeds/m2/year reduction in weed seed return, reveal the latest results from the UK’s most comprehensive field-scale grassweed management… Read more
Tagged # arable, black - grass, blackgrass, cover crop, cultural control, grassweed, management, rotation, Stow Longa
Building on a Traditional Recipe with Innovation in Fife
December 20, 2019
At first sight Lacesston at Gateside near Cupar is a traditional North east Fife family farm. Potatoes and spring barley are its mainstays, with soft wheat grown for distilling and oats for Quaker. All its sandy loam arable ground is… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, barley, conservation, cover crop, donald hay, john weir, liming, oats, potatoes, precision agriculture, Precision Farming, precision growing, rtk precision, scotland, soil care, soil health, sustainable agriculture, variable rate, winner
Exploring the Latest Cover Crop Thinking
December 12, 2019
In the right place, catch and cover cropping can noticeably improve the health, workability and resilience of soils as well as making valuable contributions to environmental protection. But to be cost-effective they need to be well-planned and managed. They must… Read more
Tagged # advice, Agrii SOils Improvement Group, below ground, cover crop, crop establishment, east anglia, establishment, kent, knowledge exchange, no-till, OSR Companion, research, root depth, rooting, six counties, soil health, Soil structure, spring crops, strip tillage, sugar beet, tips, tour