Farmers Weekly Building biology on your farm doesn’t need to cost the earth, although it does require a level of patience. There is more than one wa...Read More
Farmers Weekly Growing a simultaneous crop of beans and oats enabled one Cambridgeshire grower to completely eliminate fertiliser, fungicide and herbi...Read More
Farmers Weekly Barley growers are being advised to go with robust fungicide mixes this spring, where the combination of forward crops and presence of ...Read More
Farmers Weekly Cutting inputs and costs is a common goal for growers making the first steps into regenerative farming. As it is a systems approach, th...Read More
Farmers Weekly Disease control in winter wheat is set to be particularly tricky this season as the dry and cold early spring weather, which has held b...Read More
Farmers Weekly Sugar beet drilling is racing to a close in the current dry weather with higher beet prices and the availability of a key virus yellows...Read More
Farmers Weekly A new oilseed rape variety will be available this summer only as primed seed which is aimed at helping with early establishment and cop...Read More
Farmers Weekly Just when the oilseed rape is finally growing too big for the pigeons we drilled some spring barley, which is now being systematically ...Read More
Farmers Weekly At the start of every new year, I like to kick off with some positivity, as it is far too easy to just concentrate on the negatives. So...Read More
Farmers Weekly Farmers considering the move to a regenerative farming system must have a plan and introduce gradual changes, or there’s a danger tha...Read More
Farmers Weekly It feels like the first decent autumn we’ve had in a few years, with a mixture of showers and sunshine enabling us to get the cover c...Read More
Farmers Weekly Timing is essential when terminating cover crops, go too soon and vital nutrients can be leached from soil before the following crop ha...Read More
Farmers Weekly It has been quite a struggle to find something positive to write about this month, so I thought I’d share a recipe for a “farming 2...Read More
Farmers Weekly Harvest was finally completed on 17 September, with the last of 51ha of spring beans cut. Rustling up a harvest team after a nine-day b...Read More
Farmers Weekly Someone on Twitter called harvest 2021 the “driest, wettest harvest ever”, and I couldn’t agree more. August delivered no appreci...Read More
Farmers Weekly Wheat growers are being advised not to rush winter cereal drilling this autumn, as a protracted germination resulting from a high black...Read More
Farmers Weekly Tim Lamyman is consistently growing wheat crops yielding 15t/haps using a high-input, high-output system across a number of varieties o...Read More
Farmers Weekly Following my last article predicting a later-than-average start to harvest, hot, dry conditions for several weeks brought everything on...Read More
Farmers Weekly Nick Dymond’s unique cropping approach of not using fungicides or insecticides and a focus on crop nutrition has seen yields of his E...Read More
Farmers Weekly Hertfordshire arable farmer Eveey Hunter made a start on Skyfall winter wheat harvest at the family farm on Wednesday, with initial yie...Read More