Tagged: Environment
Latest Trials Underline Perennial Grass Importance in AB15 Mixes
July 15, 2022
Failure to balance AB15 Stewardship mixes sufficiently with perennial grasses may seriously compromise their effectiveness in managing problem grassweeds, confirm the latest replicated farm trials. The field-scale trials on ground with historic grassweed problems run by farmed environment specialist, Marek… Read more
Tagged # AB15, Environment, GRASS, Perennial, stewardship
Fallacy of ‘income foregone’ payments for new ELMS revealed
October 5, 2020
Basing new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) payments on the age-old income foregone formula is unnecessary and will fail to deliver the desired public goods, warns a leading agricultural policy adviser. “Other than lack of imagination and ambition, there is… Read more
Tagged # BPS, DEFRA, ELMS, Environment, farmers, farming, Land, payment, scheme
Talking Agrnomy with Jo Bell
April 4, 2020
Calling a halt to Skyfall drilling in mid-March, we have between zero and 30% of our planned wheat acreage in the ground. Altogether we have labelled around 70% of our undrilled fields green or amber in the traffic light system… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, barley, beans, brexit, ceh, Environment, explorer, foliar nutrition, lancrop, OSR, Pollen beetle, septoria, skyfall, soil, Stow Longa, technical, wheat