Feeding the Crop [AR.FC]
Importance of Nutrient Budgeting for Fertiliser Purchasing
With uncertainty surrounding fertiliser markets and fertiliser availability, recent soil analysis, manure analysis and preparation of a nutrient budget in advance of any fertiliser purchases will give you the best…
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Reducing The Risk of Combine Fires
With soaring temperatures coinciding with harvest, there is a risk of combine fires. These not only cause extensive disruption at one of the busiest times of year but are also…
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Saving Money Feeding a Crop – Nutrient Budgeting
Without nutrient budgeting being addressed then the nutrients available to the crop can become deficient or in excess which can lead to poor crop yields, quality, and loss of profit…
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Improve Your Soil Fertility
This video covers soil fertility to maximise use of synthetic fertiliser by correcting soil pH, maintaining adequate phosphate (P) and Potassium (K) indices and encouraging clover. Poppy Frater, Sheep and…
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Dealing with Rocketing Fertiliser Prices
Given the recent hike in fertiliser prices, there has never been a more pressing need to investigate your soil’s nutrient status for better targeted use of organic manures and to…
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Stubble Management for Grass Weed Control
There is not a single prescriptive course of action given there are so many farming and cropping systems each with differing objectives and timescales but, where stubble management is used for early grass weed control, certain principles in particular stale seedbeds (under the right conditions) can be effective in reducing the seed bank.
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The Role of Biostimulants in IPM
The overriding principle of IPM is to manage the health of a crop holistically, rather than just to focus on individual pests and disease and then deal with them with single tools in isolation. We are used to the concept that we might try and combine interventions like rotation, tillage, varietal resistance with targeted pesticides to reduce pest and disease pressure, but the concept of trying to work with and stimulate the plants own natural processes using biostimulants is newer and less well understood.
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Spring Barley – Planning your NPK (webinar)
Fertiliser is often the largest variable cost when growing spring barley with timing and rates critical to achieve optimum yield, market requirements and limit any negative effects on the environment.…
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