27th August 2025
Talking Taties: We’ve come a long way
Taties get a bad press when it comes to soil. If we were to assume nothing had changed since the ‘bed-till to death and blather everything with Temik’ days of the 1990s, perhaps it’d be…
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28th July 2025
Talking Taties: Ever optimistic
Is it going to be a back end of sheeting trailers and dragging tow straps around? Who knows? Mother Nature tends to pay her debts at some time or other.
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27th June 2025
Talking Taties: Chalk and cheese
Contrasting years don’t vary much more than 2024 and 2025. We finished planting this year’s crop more than a month earlier than last year and are currently at a point where all pre emergence herbicides are…
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21st May 2025
Talking Taties: Down memory lane
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26th March 2025
Talking Taties with Andrew Wilson: Biting the bullet
It’s funny how a few dry days in winter makes everything look better on farm. As I write, we’ve tray tested our brand-new-second-hand spreader and spun some urea onto backward crops and the strip-tilled wheat…
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17th December 2024
Talking Taties: Choppy tides
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17th October 2024
Talking Taties: From dust to clart
Firstly a few positives – for one, our late-drilled spring cereals were just about worth sowing; not anything like as good as the earlier planted crops, but I didn’t expect they would be. However, the rent…
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17th September 2024
Talking Taties: Threat means opportunity
Before I get my crystal ball out, I think we should consider the past – 25 years ago feels like it should be 1985, but it’s actually 1999 – scary!
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16th August 2024
Talking Taties: Variable outcomes
Somewhat predictably, given the rain, it’s a light land year. Our winter barley is all cut and varied in yield from not quite 6t/ha to a reasonable 7.9t/ha, with the average tantalisingly close to 7t/ha.…
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18th June 2024
Talking Taties: The challenges continue
As seasons go, spring 2024 must be one of the most frustrating that I’ve experienced in 30 years of farming. It’s tested everything – from kit to people to resolve, and everything in between. But…
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14th May 2024
Talking Taties: Safe way should be the easy way
So how’s it going? We’re about a month behind instead of what was three, so progress has been made.