Crops and Soils
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Dumfries Soil & Nutrient Network – event summary
Valuing Your Soils The meeting was held at Limekilns Farm, near Annan and was focused around the subject of soil management and application of lime. Alastair Beattie (SAC Consulting Dumfries)…
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Improving Crop Health & Business Resilience (Lanark) – event summary
It is becoming increasingly challenging for cereal growers faced with unpredictable weather, loss of chemistry and new and increasing disease threats. This has been shown this year with the explosion…
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Cereal Trials Open Evening: Improving Crop Health & Business Resilience – event summary
The SFAS crop health and business resilience event highlighted a positive outlook for grain markets, promising new varieties for wheat and barley, declines in disease sensitivity to some fungicides, changes…
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Design and Management for Woods and Wildlife – event summary
There was great feedback from those who attended our event on Thursday 29th June. Here are a few key points from the day: Our host, Alan Twatt, explained why he…
Read More >Technical Note (TN656): Soil Information, Texture & Liming Recommendations
• Web based access to information on your soils on your farm is described.
• Soil texture classes of mineral soils are described and identified by hand texturing.
• Liming recommendations for different soils and managements are tabulated.
Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS) Score Chart
This is a downloadable copy of the Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS) score chart for use in-field.
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Soil & Nutrient Network – Case Study: Knockglass Farm Nr Thurso
Introduction to Knockglass Farm Knockglass Farm near Thurso, Caithness was purchased by brothers Robbie and Andrew Mackintosh in May 2015 as they sought to increase their farming enterprise. They already have land at…
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North East Organic Discussion Group: Second Meeting – event summary
This was the second meeting of the NE Organic Farming Group. It was hosted by Alastair Wilson, Upper Wheedlemont, Rhynie – an excellent example of a well established organic farm.…
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