26th March 2024
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CPM Magazine
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10th March 2024
Last Word: Networking – unspoken torture
Now, what I’m about to discuss could be viewed as contradictory to my previous column which explored overcoming loneliness. But never mind, I’ll press on.
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10th March 2024
Nature Natters: No Nature, No Farmers, No Food
During the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time on trains travelling to different parts of the country for meetings and conferences. While it's nice to sit back, relax, and let the train…
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10th March 2024
Smith’s Soapbox: Perversity in places of power
Despite a few uplifting signs of spring such as an increase in birdsong and blossom in the hedgerows, there does seem to be a number of large black clouds threatening this year’s harvest that won’t go…
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10th March 2024
Talking Taties: Knowledge is power
Unsurprisingly, I have no field work activities to report this month – the nearest we’ve been is making a muck heap in one of our driest undrained fields three times bigger than is required for…
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10th March 2024
Weed control: The big questions answered
Slow herbicide discovery, resistance development and a rapidly changing farming landscape are all threats to sustainable weed control in UK arable systems. CPM attended a recent debate to see what leading experts view as potential…
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10th March 2024
Theory to Field: Aiding disease control decision making
AHDB Fungicide Performance trials provide farmers and agronomists with key information to help decision making. CPM looks at both the project’s history and latest results.
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10th March 2024
Adapting disease management: Proactive T1 planning
Adaptability in a T1 programme can help to set growers up for unpredictability in weather and disease pressures. CPM explores fungicide options and approaches as we move into the spring.
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10th March 2024
Smart Farming: Thinking big
Smart technology in agriculture is progressing at a rate of knots with new innovations promising to optimise workflow, streamline processes and utilise every ounce of data available. CPM digs into some of these unfolding technologies.
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10th March 2024
Pulse Progress: Putting the ‘pea’ in predictions
In this special edition of Pulse Progress, CPM explores how the development of a new modelling tool could revolutionise the forecasting of maturity and yield in vining peas.
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10th March 2024
OSR weed control: Smooth operator
A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into…