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Crop health update: Post-metaldehyde slug management
Defra recently announced a ban on metaldehyde use for outdoor use from spring 2020, as a consequence of long standing concerns over it getting into drinking water.
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Banffshire Soil & Nutrient Network – Save money with effective nutrient budgeting – event summary
This was the second meeting of the Banffshire Soil & Nutrient Network and the focus was to look at the value of nutrients supplied from various different sources. Most livestock farmers…
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Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd meeting – event summary
This was the second meeting of the Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network and the focus this time was on counting the value of slurry Elaine Watt, SAC Consulting, led the second…
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Stirling Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd meeting – event summary
This was the second meeting of the Stirling Soil & Nutrient Network. The focus for the event was how effective nutrient budgeting can save you money! All farms should work…
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East Lothian & Berwickshire Soil & Nutrient Network Farm: 2nd meeting event summary
This was the second meeting of the East Lothian & Berwickshire Soil & Nutrient Network and the focus was on ‘soil organic matter and organic manures’. Donald Dunbar, SAC Consulting,…
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Plant health: New threats and new tools
Plant health threats are a moving target, and the best management tools alter with each season so it pays to stay up to date.
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Slurry lagoons – more than just a hole in the ground
The high and above average rainfall during winter 2017 highlighted the need for extra slurry storage across the SW of Scotland. Although we have a high livestock density it is…
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Benefits of Colostrum Pasteurisation
Many disease causing organisms can be transmitted to calves via colostrum feeding, such as Mycoplasma, Listeria, E.coli, Salmonella and perhaps most importantly, the bacteria that causes Johne’s disease (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis or MAP).
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Orkney Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd meeting – event summary
Soil sampling the results from re-tests & selecting grass and clover varieties to suit your farm were the main topics at this event During the second meeting of the Orkney Soil &…
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Crop health update – Fungicide resistance marches on
Resistance to some of our key fungicides has been of concern for a few years. Monitoring data from 2018, presented at the recent Fungicide Resistance Action Group UK meeting shows that…
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