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CPM Magazine
21st July 2023
Being the one-stop-shop for all things regenerative farming means Groundswell’s fan club continues to grow at a rapid pace. Now in its seventh year, CPM attended the festival to hear the latest perspectives on sustainable…
21st July 2023
A resurgence in the popularity of on-farm sieve cleaners is being driven by growers exploring intercropping, as well as those looking to clean grain to meet specification or wanting to home-save seed. CPM gets the…
21st July 2023
Twenty first century farming is a delicate balance between profit-making, food production and protecting the environment. CPM attended a British Crop Production Council seminar to hear how the industry plans to overcome the challenges which…
21st July 2023
One name has dominated the oat market for a prolonged period, with none able to compare, but that might be about to change. Cromwell, Senova’s new oat variety, has appealing yields, good agronomics and the…
21st July 2023
Collaboration, connections and working together were all themes that permeated this year’s Cereals Event. CPM had boots on the ground to hear the latest from the industry.
21st July 2023
The arrival of a new disease challenge in sugar beet has highlighted a gap in variety disease resistance information and has caused a rethink of fungicide strategies. CPM finds out more about the cercospora and…
21st July 2023
30th June 2023
As I write this in late May the last of the N is on the combinable crops, and all are romping through growth stages apace. T2 fungicide is on most of the wheat, and the…
30th June 2023
When it comes to making decisions, I suffer from the ‘half-right, half wrong’ school of farming. By way of example, last autumn I couldn’t decide whether to spray the rather expensive Luximo (cinmethylin) herbicide or…
30th June 2023
The legacy of last year's dry weather has announced itself in this year’s harvest. Travelling around the farm over the past month or two, I’ve observed the dreaded blackgrass rearing its unwelcomed head in many…
30th June 2023
So much has changed in farming recently. While there’ve been relatively few substantive tweaks to conventional agronomic practices for decades, and fewer still step-changes in crop protection, there’s been a huge change in mindsets, embracing…
