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Tillage Podcast: dry days for harvest, green grains and straw 2023-08-10

Spring barley breaks down and green grains cause more issues 2023-08-09

When your whole year has been building up to the harvest, this is not what you want to see — gaps in the fields where the driving wind and rain has flattened the wheat, and its simply been too wet to work. so, richard, just how far behind are you? well, its august three now and wed normally be a quarter to halfway through our winter wheat. but not only that, weve got the spring barley and our oilseed rape still to harvest. everything is still looking at us in the field. and looking more closel...

In recognition of the recent unseasonably wet period of weather an extended period of time for farmers to complete the shallow cultivation measure required post-harvest of certain tillage crops has been allowed.

Spring barley harvest begins, as winter barley remains to be cut 2023-07-26

Tillage management: Work windows come, winter barley and OSR top of the list 2023-07-26

Tillage Podcast: yield report, stubble cultivation and prices 2023-07-27

Well be growing a more sort of mediterranean type crop than the traditional crops grown in this country. spring barley and spring wheatjust wont cope with a hot summer. and that could make some staple foods more expensive. the canal and river trust is using pumps to spray water to try and drive up oxygen levels. and theyve tested the water for pollution. it is expensive and time consuming work and they have been dealing with an exceptional number of these incidents. its unprecedented. six incide...

We will be growing a more sort of mediterranean—type crop than the traditional crops grown in this country. spring barley and spring wheatjust wont cope with a hot summer. that could make some of our staple foods more expensive. the canal and river trust is using pumps to spray water to try and drive up oxygen levels and they have tested the water for pollution. it is expensive and time—consuming work and they have been dealing with an exceptional number of these incidents. its unprecedented...

It smashed past them according to the met office. when you look back in the series that goes back to 1884, last time you saw anything close to that was way back in 19110 and 1976. what is staggering about this last months is its about a full 1 degree above what we should be getting at that time of year. the met office says man—made climate change made these record temperatures twice as likely. whats more, it says by 2050, we can expect every otherjune to be as hot as this one. forfarmers, that...