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Potato Blight Warning Curve Overlay
10/08/2015

Potato Blight Warning

Potato growers are being urged to be alert against an increasing late blight threat in their crops as conditions turn to favour the moisture-loving disease.

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World record oilseed rape yield smashed in Lincolnshire Curve Overlay
10/08/2015

World record oilseed rape yield smashed in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire Wolds grower Tim Lamyman has broken the world oilseed rape yield record with a crop which was the thickest and greenest he has ever harvested.

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Blackgrass Masterclass Curve Overlay
03/08/2015

Blackgrass Masterclass

Innovation for Agriculture (IFA) is a new initiative from the English Agricultural Societies and the RASE, which aims to create a new extension service for English farmers providing them with information on all aspects of technical production.  John Swire went along to a blackgrass meeting in Ipswich

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Iain Green Farms Curve Overlay
31/07/2015

Iain Green Farms

Iain Green farms in partnership with his parents Jimmy and Nan Green at Garmouth, Morayshire.  He is a past president of the council of the British Simmental Cattle Society and the Royal Northern Agriculture Society. 

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Neil Buchanan - Patience is generally well rewarded Curve Overlay
31/07/2015

Neil Buchanan - Patience is generally well rewarded

Another season heads to its conclusion and harvest starts to beckon.  Grain stores are receiving their annual clean out and hygiene blitz, while combines are being readied for their short but vital campaign.

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New ideas for beating black grass Curve Overlay
31/07/2015

New ideas for beating black grass

Dedicated R&D sites are driving new thinking on controlling this most challenging of weeds.  Heather Briggs and Teresa Rush report on some of the latest developments. 

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Seed drills on test Curve Overlay
29/07/2015

Seed drills on test

A range of drills are being examined in the Growcrop Gold trials to show what can be achieved through reliable germination and establishment.

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Do all you can this summer to ensure OSR establishes quickly Curve Overlay
29/07/2015

Do all you can this summer to ensure OSR establishes quickly

Good establishment of oilseed rape will be even more critical than usual this summer as farmers face a second season without neonicotinoid seed treatments

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Companion plants make good neighbours Curve Overlay
29/07/2015

Companion plants make good neighbours

Companion plants, a relatively recent innovation, have been trialled extensively in Agrovista's Growcrop Gold programme, where they have often improved establishment and ultimately yield.

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