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10th March 2024
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…
12th February 2024
From the perspective of a combinable crops business, a key weakness in Red Tractor assurance would seem to be how little of what leaves my farm ends up with a Red Tractor logo on it.
4th December 2023
One throw away personal insult I’ve heard batted around the farming scene goes along the lines of ‘if he just stayed in bed all day then he’d be a millionaire.’
13th October 2023
It’s been a slow start to this autumn’s drilling campaign on account of a long and impatient wait for rain. Having said that I know that for others this autumn has been more the case…
21st August 2023
When, in a wet summer, you’re harvesting crops that suffered from a spring drought, it’s difficult to not think there’s a vindictive weather god in charge, or that you must have done something very wrong in…
24th July 2023
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…
30th June 2023
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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