24th July 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Over-twittered harvest yields
As the dust starts to fly and combines get into the thick of harvest 2023, its time for a re-fresher on the rules of Pub yields – now, more modernly, known as the rules of…
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24th July 2023
Nature Natters: Alternative ideas aren’t the enemy of good practice
As the summer show season comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on what seems to be a groundswell of change happening. Many farmers are quietly getting on with making changes to their farming practices,…
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30th June 2023
Talking Taties: Well, has patience paid off?
As I write this in late May the last of the N is on the combinable crops, and all are romping through growth stages apace. T2 fungicide is on most of the wheat, and the…
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30th June 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Half right, half wrong
When it comes to making decisions, I suffer from the ‘half-right, half wrong’ school of farming. By way of example, last autumn I couldn’t decide whether to spray the rather expensive Luximo (cinmethylin) herbicide or…
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30th June 2023
Nature Natters: Silver-bullet solutions for weather woes?
The legacy of last year's dry weather has announced itself in this year’s harvest. Travelling around the farm over the past month or two, I’ve observed the dreaded blackgrass rearing its unwelcomed head in many…
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30th June 2023
Last Word: Embers of a food revolution?
So much has changed in farming recently. While there’ve been relatively few substantive tweaks to conventional agronomic practices for decades, and fewer still step-changes in crop protection, there’s been a huge change in mindsets, embracing…
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18th May 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Wide-eyed at Wild Isles
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18th May 2023
Nature Natters: The gene editing is out of the bottle
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16th May 2023
Talking Taties: Finally, a bit of field work
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18th April 2023
Talking Taties: Well, it looks like winter is back…
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18th April 2023
Styles’ Stance: The bureaucracy of natural capital