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Farmer Focus: Hoping for a lodge-free lentil harvest

bitcoin hoy precio www.survivalprep.net Harvest 2023 is now finished all bar 10ha of lentils, which look like they will be ready at the end of the month. Like last year, they were grown as…

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Farmer Focus: Confusing harvest and most blackgrass for years

Well after a short Indian summer, autumn is well and truly with us, depositing several inches of rain in the past week. Granted the first inch was welcome as seed-beds…

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Farmer Focus: Machinery purchases landing on our doorstep

We are just under half way through drilling winter cereals, but unfortunately Mother Nature has turned the taps on and we have been stopped for a week after a significant…

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Farmer Focus: July and August rain sees bumper pumpkin crop

With combing wrapped up, there is just one crop left to harvest – pumpkins. So, we are relying once again on some drier weather in October to get this under…

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Farmer Focus: First winter barley min-tilled after cover crop

The weather in August continued to be unsettled right to the end, with only 12 days without rain in the month. September has been much better, with a run of…

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Farmer Focus: Trying a three-way winter wheat blend

Harvest has finally been completed. It’s been a relatively smooth one, but has dragged on longer than it should have. Results on the whole have been a little disappointing, with…

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Farmer Focus: Damp harvest sees return of straw raking

With the changing weather fortunes we ended up harvesting the driest wheat at only a slightly higher moisture than the wettest oilseed rape. Hagbergs were great, specific weights decent, but…

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Farmer Focus: Pain ahead with drought and falling prices

It seems that when the pendulum swings out to one extreme, it doesn’t return to the centre, but takes a wide arc out the other side. From record-high product prices…

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Farmer Focus: Winter wheat down 1t/ha, but quality good

After receiving 110mm of rain in July, we then had 102mm in August. We managed two proper days of combining, starting before 10am and finishing at about midnight. The rest…

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Farmer Focus: The worst winter wheat harvest in 11 years

This has been the worst winter wheat harvest in 11 years at Downpatrick, and what a summer we have had. Wheat crops initially showed a lot of potential, but unfortunately…

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Farmer Focus: Direct-drilling impossible after straw chopping

They say music can alter moods, and the way August has followed a wet July, I’ve needed every upbeat song in my playlist. It has been a testing season in…

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Farmer Focus: Looking for answer to cost-effective farm kit

We have finished harvest and are now drilling grass seed and cover crops into what is an unsurprisingly moist seed-bed. Harvest was relatively painless despite the rain, and our old…

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