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Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Knockglass Farm, Caithness
Soil & Nutrient Network – helping farmers improve soils structure and nutrient management. This case study provides details of the Caithness Soil & Nutrient Network Farm – Knockglass Farm.
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Soil & Nutrient Network – helping farmers improve soils structure and nutrient management. This case study provides details of the Lanarkshire Soil & Nutrient Network Farm – Crumhaugh Farm.
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Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Bogindollo Farm, Angus
Introduction to Bogindollo Farm Bogindollo Farm is a mixed arable and suckler unit, run by Euan Crichton. The arable rotation includes winter and spring barley, spring oats, winter wheat and…
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Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Girrick Farm, Roxburghshire
Background Girrick is an owner occupied mixed arable, beef and sheep unit farmed by Andrew Forster and his family. Girrick lies around 450ft above sea level and extends to 242ha, all…
Read More >Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Girrick Farm, Roxburghshire
Soil & Nutrient Network – helping farmers improve soils structure and nutrient management. This case study provides details of the Roxburghshire Soil & Nutrient Network Farm – Girrick Farm
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Using Forestry to Benefit your Business – Event Summary
We recently held two meetings on the 17th January. The first during the day at the Arran Outdoor Centre followed by an evening meeting at the SAC Consulting Office in Auchincruive Office. These meetings focused on how woodlands can work alongside your farming business.
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Winter beans and their diseases
Winter beans usually produce strong vigorous plans and can be so healthy and green that late season chocolate spot caused by botrytis is almost welcome or they might stay green…
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Wet summer raises risk of potato storage rots
It has been said before that potatoes are not so much a crop but rather just a large collection of diseases and problems. The number of serious pests and diseases to which the crop is susceptible makes a depressing roll call and it is only due to the highly skilled nature of producers that these risks are sufficiently managed and contained to deliver the Scottish crop.
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Integrated Crop Management Roadshow: Perth – Event Summary
Integrated Crop Management – a more holistic approach that can benefit your farm yields The Perth & Angus event of this roadshow was held at the Huntingtower Hotel during December. …
Read More >Update of fungicide efficacy and resistance
Commercially, and in field trials, cereal fungicide programmes were pretty effective in 2017 and yield responses to fungicides reasonable but the dry spring did much to keep a lid on…
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