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Specialist advice – essential to farm resilience planning
It has never been more important for farmers and land managers to have a clear understanding of the strength and resilience of their business in the face of future change…
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Blight proves challenging in 2019
Perhaps an early warning of things to come At SRUC’s potato blight trial site this year blight has proven to be particularly difficult to control since the start of August. …
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Orkney Soil & Nutrient Network: Final meeting – event summary
Improving grassland yields to increase profitability was the theme for the final event at Midgarth. The event began with a recap of the two-year project at Midgarth, highlighting the importance…
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Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus – forward planning without neonicotinoid seed treatments
The loss of the neonicotinoid seed treatments will have an impact on the management of BYDV in cereals this autumn and next spring. Consequently, there will be a reliance on…
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New fungicides and better varieties to help in the fight against septoria
The wet end to the 2019 wheat season has helped to drive septoria levels in wheat crops and it is already evident that there has been further slippage in the…
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Farming in the Online Age: Staying Safe
As digital technology helps farming businesses to become more efficient, virtually every farmer will use at least one online service to run their business whether it’s online banking, digital accounting…
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On Track for Progress
Incorporating cow tracks into a dairy grazing system can increase herd productivity and profitability whilst helping Scotland work towards net-zero emissions. Maximising grassland utilisation Increasing grass utilisation can be a…
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Are your Calves Getting too Much of a Good Thing?
The importance of providing calves with a good quality milk replacer in early life is well documented. However, not only is the nutritional value of the milk replacer important, the…
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Angus Soil & Nutrient Network: First meeting – Event summary
The first meeting of the new Angus Soil & Nutrient Network was held on Redwell Farm, with the kind permission of our new host farmer, Roy Callandar. After an introduction…
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Winter Barley Varieties 2019
Using more resilient varieties is one of the most effective ways of reducing disease risk There is increasing interest in looking at untreated yields of varieties in trials and looking…
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