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Talking agronomy with Ken McTaggart: Gearing spring fieldwork carefully to conditions

Talking agronomy with Ken McTaggart: Gearing spring fieldwork carefully to conditions

11 Mar 201911:07
Writing in mid-February, and with the icy start we had to the month – not to mention well over two inches of rain in the past week – we are very glad we did not rush into much in the way of early fieldwork.
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Talking agronomy Andrew Roy: A chance to start planning ahead as the weather warms

Talking agronomy Andrew Roy: A chance to start planning ahead as the weather warms

08 Mar 201916:10
Winter has been a very brief affair so far, with the recent snow and frost being replaced by high pressure pushing warm weather from the south.
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Talking arable with Sophie Alexander: Improvement in organic seed selection and availability needed

Talking arable with Sophie Alexander: Improvement in organic seed selection and availability needed

08 Mar 201915:31
I have mentioned before that the Recommended Lists are inadequate for selecting organic seed.
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Talking Arable with Ian Matts: The benefits of manures has become evident

Talking Arable with Ian Matts: The benefits of manures has become evident

06 Mar 201916:50
So far, this year seems to have been largely taken up with meetings.
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Talking Policy with Tom Bradshaw: Managing risk is a key attribute of arable farming

Talking Policy with Tom Bradshaw: Managing risk is a key attribute of arable farming

26 Feb 201909:52
Managing risk is a key attribute of arable farming with weather, markets and of course politics creating uncertainty and easily derailing short-term plans.
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Talking Policy with Tom Bradshaw, NFU combinable crops chair

Talking Policy with Tom Bradshaw, NFU combinable crops chair

11 Feb 201912:12
During my time as a Monitor farmer for AHDB I remember one of my genuine ‘lightbulb’ moments.
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Talking agronomy with Andrew Roy: Use change to adapt and grow

Talking agronomy with Andrew Roy: Use change to adapt and grow

10 Feb 201911:57
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Talking arable with Ian Matts: Ground conditions are unseasonably good

Talking arable with Ian Matts: Ground conditions are unseasonably good

09 Feb 201910:49
The New Year has started as 2018 finished, warmer and drier than average. Although we have now had some frosts and even a small fluttering of snow, ground conditions are still unseasonably good.
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Talking agronomy with Ken McTaggart: Playing the waiting game with crop care

Talking agronomy with Ken McTaggart: Playing the waiting game with crop care

08 Feb 201916:56
The calm, dry start to the New Year provided a welcome opportunity to give late-drilled wheats after roots and vegetables a timely residual herbicide top-up with extra contact action to deal with weeds that continued to emerge in another decidedly warm December.
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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: We have to take a much more holistic approach to crop protection going forward

Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: We have to take a much more holistic approach to crop protection going forward

06 Feb 201912:38
For those into skiing, it’s been the east of the Alps which have had the bulk of the snow, with the western and southern alps being pretty dry.
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Talking agronomy with Maddy Vaughan: It is worth remembering why you are growing spring crops

Talking agronomy with Maddy Vaughan: It is worth remembering why you are growing spring crops

05 Feb 201912:26
The cold weather has finally arrived and the end of January looks set to be cold, albeit mostly dry. Indeed, the winter weather so far has been kind (perhaps too kind?) with temperatures barely dropping below zero and rainfall almost insignificant for this time of year.
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Talking arable with Neil MacLeod: We seem to have got to February without much thought

Talking arable with Neil MacLeod: We seem to have got to February without much thought

04 Feb 201912:11
I remember when an employee at Southesk retired a few years ago, I asked him what was the biggest difference in his job since he started.
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Talking agronomy with Ken McTaggart: Nearing the end of drilling with considerable relief

Talking agronomy with Ken McTaggart: Nearing the end of drilling with considerable relief

05 Nov 201811:39
We are moving towards the end of October and our final winter drillings with considerable relief, although still without the scale of pre-planting weed growth we really wanted on bad grass-weed ground.
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Talking agronomy with Madeleine Vaughan: A disheartening start with new season OSR crops

Talking agronomy with Madeleine Vaughan: A disheartening start with new season OSR crops

05 Nov 201811:30
Flea beetle season began slowly; I actually thought early in August that perhaps this year we would have it easy, as the early-drilled oilseed rape went in and started to emerge and little damage was found.
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Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Assessing the impact of losing some key crop protection actives

Talking roots with Darryl Shailes: Assessing the impact of losing some key crop protection actives

01 Nov 201816:32
The times they are a changin, went the song by Bob Dylan and they certainly are. The grass growth has slowed down in the garden so the mower is used a little less but we’ve been busy harvesting apples and pears and what a bumper crop they’ve been.
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Talking arable with Sophie Alexander: New app makes light work of DIY soil assessments

Talking arable with Sophie Alexander: New app makes light work of DIY soil assessments

31 Oct 201816:23
I have bought a useful app called Sectormentor for Soils, thanks to which keeping a record of DIY soil assessments is more entertaining than it used to be.
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Talking agronomy with Andrew Roy: Weather, weeds, pests and disease

Talking agronomy with Andrew Roy: Weather, weeds, pests and disease

30 Oct 201816:03
Storm Callum passed over our region in October, bringing welcome rain but very unwelcome winds. Even so, it has been a fantastic autumn for cultivating land.
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Talking arable with Neil MacLeod: Patience is a virtue

Talking arable with Neil MacLeod: Patience is a virtue

29 Oct 201815:45
Patience is a virtue they say and you would think that, after such a kind summer and autumn, I would enjoy the feeling of calm starting to envelope Southesk, as seasonal colours signal the end of summer and the occasional frosty morning heralds thoughts of winter.
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Talking agronomy with Maddy Vaughan: A disheartening start with new season oilseed rape

Talking agronomy with Maddy Vaughan: A disheartening start with new season oilseed rape

11 Oct 201815:02
Flea beetle season began slowly; I actually thought early in August that perhaps this year we would have it easy, as the early-drilled oilseed rape went in and started to emerge and little damage was found.
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Talking arable with Ian Matts: Long time spent looking hard at not a lot

Talking arable with Ian Matts: Long time spent looking hard at not a lot

11 Oct 201814:51
Since I last wrote we have finished drilling oilseed rape, having not wanted to drill too much at any one time for fear of dry soil conditions delaying emergence or high flea beetle pressure hitting when the crop was still at the cotyledon stage.
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