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Michael Rutherwford with his Bunning muck spreader, with a Claas at the front

Northumberland farm takes spreading work back in-house with a Bunning machine
A Northumberland farm’s decision to take its spreading workload in-house has provided flexibility to only spread in the best weather helping to minimise soil compaction and make the best use of the valuable manure.

Abbey's latest trailing shoe set up working behind one of its tankers

Feature LAMMA launch pad for slurry tech from Abbey, Mastek and KME

The Mergento from Pottinger is a versatile machine that can reduce contaminents in forage crops being harvested

Feature Pöttinger launches belt type rake – the Mergento can gather across up to 9.2m

TOP TIPS optimising grassland productivity needs a focussed approach

Five top tips for successful grassland management from Jim Clark of Hutchinsons

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Opinion Doug Niven: Global grain and oilseed markets tighten due to war and weather

Extase winter wheat expressed low levels of visible Septoria on leaves five and six. The variety is not widely grown in Scotland due to sterility issues but it does have high Septoria resistance rating of 7.8.

Feature Crop Doctor North: Timing of sprays will be critical to keeping disease at bay

Sowing sprin g wheat in Ukraine recently, but the war threatens sowing in many other areas of the country

Opinion Dr Keith Dawson: Farming heroes for a world in crisis, as war threatens food supplies

The high cost of not reseeding grassland is lower productivity and wasted fertiliser

Feature Cope Seeds' Duncan Hendry highlights the high cost of not reseeding grassland

Alan Kerr believes that applying slurry little and often is best for plant and ground absorption

Feature How to get the most from slurry for making silage at Low Dallars farm in Ayrshire

Stevie Gray an agronomist with Scottish Agronomy

Arable Scottish Agronomy's Stevie Gray's three graces for maximising output in a costly season

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Arable I have seen the future – but I hae ma doots…

Joining its first RlmS variety, the hybrid Respect, added to the Recommended List last year, LSPB now has a second RlmS hybrid, Flemming, on the RL for 2022-23, says Chris Guest

Arable LSPB's new OSR varieties Respect and Flemming tackle phoma differently

Teresa Dougall is the new MD at SQC and will oversee the integration of a new certification body

Arable Big changes at SQC – MD Teresa Dougall to oversee new certification body

OPERATOR FREE Opico technical director Angus Steven illustrates how once set up, the FarmDroid seeding and weeding machine can be left to do its work

Seeding and weeding FarmDroid takes to the field

THIS YEAR'S search for Scotland's best arable farm has started early

AgriScot 2022 Could you be the arable farmer AgriScot are looking for?

Sandy Dale, Scoughall Farm

Arable Crop protection latest: CropDoctor prescribes spring treatments for arable crops

Doug Niven Ref:RH300119133 Rob Haining / The Scottish Farmer

Arable War in Ukraine causes grain and oilseed supplies to tighten boosting futures

Rose Riby appointed new head of seeds and arable at AIC

Homegrown silage will be many farmers' answer to the cost squeeze on animal feed this year

NFU Mutual advises: 'Let's make this a safe silage season'

The theme of how to achieve net-zero emissions will run through the entire event, looking at transforming arable systems whilst maintaining efficiency, sustainability and profitability

Arable Scotland Arable Scotland returns with a focus on net-zero

The Lechler TR80 nozzles has been shown to be most effective in applying Amistar in high-speed planters

Arable Amistar application advice updated

Oilseed rape disease forecasting can keep growers on track to control them

Arable OSR tool predicts sclerotinia infection risk

Using Bridgeway was shown to increase nitrogen use efficiency levels across a variety of levels

Arable Bio-stims get to the root of N efficiency

Elatus Era is already well known for strong rust control in wheat and barley, says Syngenta regional technical manager, Joe Bagshaw, and its approval against crown rust on oats has come at an opportune time

Arable Oat crop's new fungicide option

Eric Anderson of Scottish Agronomy

Arable New project aims to stop PCN spread

David Newton of Timac Agro UK

Arable Using bio-stimulants to help meet milling grades

THE CLASSIC symptoms of septoria tritici

Arable Ascra strengthens barley fungicide arsenal

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Arable Smokescreen as the bonfire of red tape fails to ignite …

Ambassador Stem Health

Arable The hidden threat to oilseed rape

These weather indicators will help farmers assess the disease infection pressure and assist them in taking the right actions to maximise crop quality

Arable Bespoke disease forecasting to protect crops

Hutchinsons head of ICM, Dave Howard

Arable Use disease risk forecasting model to prioritise fungicide sprays

Don’t cut back on T0 sprays to save costs is the advice from leading off-patent manufacturer Life Scientific

Arable The perfect storm for yellow rust

NIAB’s crop protection and agronomy specialist, Aoife O’Driscoll

Arable Tailor Septoria control to genetic strengths

Adas specialist Dr Julie Smith

Arable Revystar® contributing to increased wheat yields

Technical development director, Dr David Ellerton

Arable Watch out for early oat diseases

Agrovista's Dundee depot covers all aspects of sprayer sales and maintenance

Arable Agrovista’s Dundee depot is going from strength to strength

The solar-powered FarmDroid is a robot seeder and weeder unit in one

New Technology: Solar-powered robot for drilling and weeding from Opico

Ewes were mated on swards containing red clover

Farmer-led research disproves red clover hits sheep fertility

Data shows that winter growing conditions are more important than summer for high yields

ADAS survey says winter warmth key to wheat yield – not a dry summer

LG Typhoon will be available to growers this autumn and is proving useful as a second wheat

Typhoon hopes to blow away the opposition

Scott Garnett ICL's agronomist inspecting a treated crop of potatoes

Polysulphate shows up well in spud trials

Spring sowing part of 2700 acres of Laureate malting barley by Old Cullen Farms. The kit is a John Deere 7R 330 with 6m Lemken Solitair drill, with another rig, a John Deere 6250R with 4m Lemken Solitair drill, working along with it

A drill team for the long haul

Rolling in Strathmore, near Eassie, Perthshire (Pic: Ron Stephen)

Big wheels keep on turning

Good Soil management practices will help farmers prevent loss of valuable soils and nutrients from their land

Down-to-earth approach to soil management

November wheat futures are approaching £300/t

Market trading: Ware means wheat futures approach £300 per tonne

Filling up the planter in defiance of what's going on around them, is a sign of hope for those in war-torn Ukraine

Arable Defiance and heroism from farmers in Ukraine

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Arable Has Scotgov missed the boat on taskforce ambitions?

Leaving a patch of non fertilised land can help growers fine-tune their crop feeding programmes for the year, according to Dr Sajjad Awan

Arable Farm efficiency: How not applying Nitrogen can transform fertiliser use

James Kennedy of Orion FT reckons that silicon is a 'forgotten element' in crop nutrition

Arable Silicon can improve yield and soil health

Scott Millar reckons that using data properly can fine tune fertiliser programmes this year

Arable Farmplan: Using smart data to maximise fertiliser return on investment

Andy Cunningham said even irrigated potato crops can suffer from heat stress

Arable Heat stress proves major pain point for potato growers

A pre-harvest dig of OptiYield treated potatoes found good skin set and a high proportion of marketable tubers

Arable System brings balance to crop needs

Arable Exploring the Amazone in Caithness

Soil sampling is a crucial step in knowing your soil and what it needs in terms of feeding

Livestock and Arable Soil analysis vital for making the right choices