2nd November 2025
Keeping it personal
While data is a hot topic in farming regarding who owns it and how it’s used, the concept of adhering to best practice with personal data is a different kettle of fish altogether and can…
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31st October 2025
Stacking the system: the technical case for mixed farming
As pressures mount on arable businesses to improve resilience, reduce costs and integrate environmental outcomes, mixed farming systems are seeing renewed interest. CPM speaks to one Staffordshire farmer balancing beef and combinable crops in a…
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28th October 2025
Tried, tested and still performing
As the latest Recommended List prepares to launch and excitement builds about the latest newcomers, breeders say there’s still merit in some of the older, ‘tried and tested’ varieties. CPM finds out more.
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26th October 2025
The rapid response technology
A problem vexing the brightest minds in crop production – as new chemistry becomes more difficult to discover and commercialise, can pests and diseases be tackled by other means? CPM investigates the emerging science striving…
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26th October 2025
Common Ground: Covering all bases
The past three seasons alone have demonstrated that when it comes to disease, it’s impossible to predict what may strike the hardest. For this month’s Common Ground, CPM explores the importance of keeping an open…
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23rd October 2025
Removing emotion from grain marketing
Navigating grain markets – a task that combines intel gathering, confidence in decision making, agility in approach, and much more. And while some growers may be comfortable managing this themselves plus the associated risk factors,…
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21st October 2025
Talking Taties: A new-to-us addition
Well, we started this month ahead of usual but things have a habit of upskittling themselves at times, and as things stand we’ve not yet started harvesting potatoes, despite half of them being ready.
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21st October 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: Blue or red?
There was an old adage that did the rounds, that UK agriculture was better off under a Labour government than a Tory one. Like many pearls of wisdom, it didn’t stand up to much analysis,…
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21st October 2025
Nature Natters: The future is diversity
I’m writing this during the party conference season, during which I’ll get the opportunity to attend a range of events for many different political parties. And in all of them, I’ll be putting forward discussion…
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21st October 2025
Last Word: Talk techie to me
Before I commence this month’s instalment, I’d better provide an avian update. Our seven mini dinosaurs are still with us, having progressed rapidly through the raptor stage into almost fully feathered fowl. They advanced from…
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16th October 2025
Why detail makes the difference in sugar beet
With margins under pressure, sugar beet’s future hinges on productivity. From seedbed conditions to stacked traits in varieties, CPM explores how detail and innovation can keep the crop competitive.
