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Spud shots
Country people love getting out with their cameras - as the 2011 Farmers Weekly Photography Competition demonstrates. And if you've got some great spud-related shots, then you might be interested in the World Potato Congress photo competition. OK, it won't mean taking the...
Rates
This is a blog post for fertiliser nerds only. Later on this morning am going to a Syngenta technical update about Nemathorin. If you are really well-behaved then I might write a post for Potato Cyst Nematode nerds a bit...
Drought situation pertaining between Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel - Cows 365 Blog - FWispace
Travelled up from Roscrea to County Laois to one of the best Limousin breeders in the British isles. The stock here are excellent. Today we were scanning
Worm's Eye View of Potatoes - Farmer Jake's Blog - FWispace
On Friday 10th December I was invited by UAP to go and listen to a talk all about Direct Drilling and Minimum Tillage. The talk was being give by Steve
North : Look out for aphids and potato blight
At last some decent sunshine. This should help the haymakers and will fill the pods and ears of combinable crops as well as bulking up potatoes which have bred well. However, the higher temperatures along with the thundery showers will...
Spud Special: Potato crops safely in store
Potato crops are now safely in store in most areas of Scotland. The level of soil in some stocks is very high, although the clearer and stiller autumnal air days have been helping with the task of drying the crop...
HOW'S THIS FOR A DROUGHT STORY? (David's Digest)
Here in Norfollk (as in many other area's) some specialist potato growers rent land for a season on which to grow potatoes. Most try to get hold of fields where irrigation is available but if the land and location are good...
Potato prices - growers can control own destiny
My colleague Mike Abram has recently returned from the British Potato 2009 event in Harrogate, weighed down with story lines from the wonderful world of spuds
Potatoes Planted
We finished the potato planting yesterday. We were later than we would have liked to be because we were waiting for a bit of extra seed to come down from Scotland. My seed calculations are never very accurate. The planting...
Potatoes not too bad after tricky season - Over the Hedge - Arable Barometer farmers' diary - FWispace
A noisy night in a Travelodge only 10m from the A1 on the way to Cereals 2008 further confirmed to me how lucky I am to live in a rural setting - well
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