22nd April 2025
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Agronomy
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17th April 2025
Biological product adoption: Overcoming biological barriers
Efficacy, usability and regulatory constraints may have hindered more widespread adoption of biological products. CPM looks at how these barriers could be overcome, including innovative approaches to formulation.
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17th April 2025
Genomics webinar: Genomics – paving the way for biostimulant payback
As technology continues to drive innovation in agriculture, CPM takes an in-depth look at how genomics could help growers to get more from alternative crop inputs like biostimulants.
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16th April 2025
OSR disease control: Making the most of actives
Isofetamid could offer growers another string to their bow to help combat sclerotinia in oilseed rape, providing the option of a little-used active that works well with others. CPM investigates the ins and outs of…
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Machinery
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22nd April 2025
Sprayers: Optimising functionality
If there’s one machine where technical accuracy is of paramount importance, it’s on the sprayer. CPM explores some of the newer technologies and features available on machines to optimise performance and chemical usage.
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18th April 2025
How a single day using a chaser bin persuaded one farmer to invest
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15th April 2025
Chaser bins: No more chasing around
There’s hardly enough time, hands or weather windows during harvest to go around, meaning everything can become rather stretched. CPM explores how investing in a chaser bin could improve timeliness, staff distribution and help consolidate…
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Roots
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24th April 2025
Potato business strategies: Steps to success in potatoes
What makes a successful potato business? According to Nuffield Scholar, Harry Barnett, there are five key areas which can make or break an enterprise. CPM shares his thoughts.
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16th April 2025
Innovation Insight: Tackling blight through strategic fungicide management
As growers face the final months of use-up for stalwart fungicide mancozeb, devising a robust late blight programme is about to become even trickier. CPM learns how early use of a dual-active product could help…
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19th March 2025
Free-living nematodes: Case for biological nematode control builds in beet
The risk of free-living nematode damage in sugar beet crops is increasingly being influenced by changes in climate and farm management practices, which could strengthen the case for using a bionematicide where risk is identified.…
Rotations
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25th April 2025
Alternative crops: Carving opportunities with pumpkins
Halloween-related festivities have experienced exponential growth during recent years, with a visit to the local pumpkin patch becoming an annual tradition for many families. CPM explores the opportunities this winter squash can offer.
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22nd April 2025
Trial compares regen system with conventional
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19th April 2025
Maize: Matching maize’s requirements
Much of what maximises the potential of maize occurs in the spring, with the emphasis being on getting the crop off to the best start. CPM takes a look at the role of nutrition and…
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18th April 2025
BASE-UK: Overcoming regen frustrations
Farming following regenerative agriculture principles isn’t always sunlit uplands, as shared by speakers at the recent BASE-UK conference. CPM provides insight into their challenges and the solutions they’ve identified to overcome them.
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15th April 2025
Bioscience in practice: Keeping a finger on the pulse
By identifying key stress points and applying appropriate interventions at the correct time, UK farmers could have the opportunity to improve the consistency and profitability of home-grown protein crops. CPM explores some of the products…
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24th March 2025
BASE-UK: Is lucerne the answer to living mulch challenge?
Could lucerne provide the benefits of a living mulch system without some of the associated yield challenges? A Danish grower presented his innovative strategy at the recent BASE-UK conference, where CPM joined delegates.
Innovation
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30th May 2023
Seven Future Agricultural Machinery Trends
New products are constantly being launched into the agriculture machinery market, but as technology advances, these could soon look very different to what the industry’s come to expect. CPM takes a closer look.
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8th November 2022
Natural alternative for CIPC established for potato market
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18th July 2022
The root crop debate
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18th July 2022
Food for fertile minds
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18th July 2022
Farming has the answers
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19th June 2022
Green Horizons – A circular approach tells its own story
Opinion
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25th April 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: United we stand
As I write, there’s chat on social media about arable farmers refusing to load out milling wheat in April as some sort of protest. I’m not sure if it’s an April Fool, but nonetheless it…
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23rd April 2025
Last Word: Blissful ignorance, 95% of the time
I don’t usually profess to have an opinion regarding political issues, but the government’s recent announcement – well, blog – regarding SFI has caused even me to shift in my seat.
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22nd April 2025
Talking Taties with Andrew Wilson: Glorious spring
Isn’t it grand to have a decent spring? In the past month I’ve sown spring malting barley after sugar beet, and also in place of second wheat on heavier land.
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21st April 2025
Nature Natters: A future of haves and have-nots
Defra’s sudden closure of the SFI scheme has divided farmers into two main camps: those who’d entered the schemes and are being rewarded for delivering public goods, and those who hadn’t yet hit ‘apply’.
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26th March 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: Survival of the fittest
One of the main winter distractions that punctuated my farm day was patrolling oilseed rape crops for pigeons. The daily routine of checking gas bangers while persecuting the blue menace with aerial bombardments from rockets…
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26th March 2025
Talking Taties with Andrew Wilson: Biting the bullet
It’s funny how a few dry days in winter makes everything look better on farm. As I write, we’ve tray tested our brand-new-second-hand spreader and spun some urea onto backward crops and the strip-tilled wheat…
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