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Combine Settings in a Bad Skinning Year for Malting Barley
With the malting barley harvest now underway, it is being reported that skinned grain levels are higher than normal in grain samples. This can lead to deductions or worse costly rejections with…
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Starting A Farming Business And Growing Crops For The First Time – A Conversation with Patrick Laurie
Patrick Laurie, Galloway based author of ‘Native’ speaks to Janette Sutherland in Skye about his book. They discuss his starting a farming business and growing crops for the first time. …
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AgriBusiness News September 2020
The September 2020 edition of Agribusiness News is now available to download and read. Along with the regular monthly articles on policy, cereals, beef, potatoes, sheep and milk, this month…
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Grain sampling during COVID restrictions
Many grain merchants provide an on-farm grain sampling service to their clients in order to gauge the quality and suitability of grain lots. This is extremely important in the case of malting barley…
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Potatoes – Late August 2020
The first season without diquat is throwing up a couple of issues. Many crops have come up to size quickly and were flailed early. We have seen copious regrowth after…
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Winter Oats – Late August 2020
Weeds Herbicide options for winter oats are limited, particularly for grass weeds. However, this is to some extent compensated by the competitiveness of oats and the ability to supress weeds.…
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Winter Wheat – Late August 2020
Pests Wheat bulb flies will be laying eggs through to late September. Growers are advised to identify potential fields at risk now and consider an assessment of egg numbers from…
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All Winter Cereals – Late August 2020
BYDV – forward planning Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) has been seen in several winter and spring cereals this season. Aphids can be found on crops and volunteers although the…
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Winter Oilseed Rape – late August 2020
Most crops are now harvested. Yields to date seem reasonable and some of the new season crop is already drilled. Phoma risk is still low in our region and decisions…
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