Simon Cowell
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Essex biological arable farmer using no-till, homemade compost and soil life to reduce artificial inputs. 2018 Soil Farmer of the Year.
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Joined February 2016
So the choice was glyphosate or Atlantis, I'm going with Atlantis. Warm, still, sunny day, fine spray with plenty of water and not too fast. And yet I have no idea if it will kill the blackgrass or not.
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Auch in 2024 waren alle vom unabhängigen BVL beprobten Nahrungsmittel unserer heimischen Landwirtschaft frei von Glyphosat-Rückständen ! 👍👏🇩🇪👍 Unsere heimische Landwirtschaft !! 🚜👏👨🌾👏🇩🇪
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Conclusion is that you never need to worry about drilling over cracks, however big they are.
Trial run over the cracks. Do I do a light cultivation or just carry on?
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Activist NGOs exploit the precautionary principle to portray demonstrably safe products like glyphosate as harmful, eroding public trust in science, hampering agricultural innovation and damaging prospects for global food security. https://t.co/72Fe3oouvG
scienceforsustainableagriculture.com
The paradox of the precautionary principle
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What I have learnt over the last 20 yrs is that it doesn't really matter if you deplete your soils/organic matter because it is easily reversible. We can build it back several times quicker than nature can, along with all the above and below ground life that does with it.
@Rosewood_Farm @cutlerstom “I have yet to see any benefits from all this extra life in the soils” the original poster said. That this isn’t seen as a benefit is depressing. The quoter says it is basically pointless doing anything to tackle nature losses unless it can be monetised. Also depressing.
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I have yet to see any benefits from all this extra life in my soils, just lower yields. I my as well just plough the lot, drill without any care or attention like most do round here, then end up with a much bigger pile of wheat in the shed.
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Getting very fed up with rooks digging up every new drilled field. They've been all over this one in 2 days, scratching up long rows. They never go on neighbours' fields or the bits I ploughed last year and this proving they are after insects, but do take seed as well.
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Drilling my DD/Plough trial field this afternoon. Within a few minutes of coming off the plough and onto the permanent no-till, all these seagulls turned up. How ever do they know so quickly?
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Heavy rolling a few tramlines, trying to mimic the extra consolidation on higher yielding headlands. I just want to see if it really is the consolidation that makes so much difference.
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Harrow and roll, I've made a pretty smart job of, I think.
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Seed in and carrying on. Very hard and dry, so going nice and slowly.
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Trial run over the cracks. Do I do a light cultivation or just carry on?
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Whatever this is in the soil, it has now killed the lucerne.
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Long-term direct driller reveals yield impact of ploughing again - Farmers Weekly
fwi.co.uk
A wheat crop established under the plough yielded 1.7t/ha more than the long-term direct drilled part of the field, more than paying for the extra costs
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This explains why every decision the government makes is wrong and bad for the country. They have an ulteria motive that has nothing to do with finances or being good of the people. It is no good arguing numbers with them, call out their motives. https://t.co/4oIAR1mMcM
restoremag.com
The Rule of Law isn't an obscure axiom about not allowing criminality, it is an essential component of our constitution. It has been brutally subverted by the Fabian Society and Labour Party, with...
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I find tweets like this extremely annoying. So was it the potion or the 2 month gap that improved the crop. Maybe it rained, maybe the soil warmed up, maybe it took up more fert? Without a control, with and without potion, it is meaningless.
What a difference after 2 months (and some Soil Primer)! The top photo was taken at the end of June. Young blueberries struggling. ➡️ We applied a drench of modified Soil Primer. The bottom photo was taken this week. ✅ Check out Soil Primer (0% off all fall!):
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The plough crop looked like it was going to do the best, but because of massive cracking (because of the ploughing), the soil dried out quicker and the crop wasn't able to finish filling.
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3, Over winter stubble, direct drilled into perfect seedbed, even emergence after 5 days, no flax beetle, beautiful looking crop, 2.5 t/ha.
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2. Autumn ploughed, power harrowed to level in spring, losing moisture, 75% germination then the rest came slowly after rain which was suppressed by beetle. Grew with high vigour, 5 ins taller than elsewhere and more branching, 2.1 t/ha
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