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Spud special: Potato harvest nears end
Most, if not all crops, have now been harvested with some huge yields reported. Quality is variable with the main challenge ahead probably marketing and moving the crop. I am hearing reports of some store breakdown, particularly where harvest...
Minnesota’s Divers Ag Industry | CSD Blogs and Opinions
Ask most people in Minnesota to describe what they think of when they hear the word “agriculture” and they would probably say corn, soybeans, wheat, dairy, cattle, pork or poultry, all of which are important agricultural products in the state.
Spud Special: Potato harvest crawls on north of the border
Better harvesting weather recently (light rain rather than torrential) has enabled better progress to be made with the potato harvest north of the border. Overall there is estimated to be about 25% of the crop still in the ground. Most growers have left heaviest land till...
Special Bruise
We are now slap bang in the middle of the potato harvest. Every day Hannah, our technologist at Nene Potatoes, collects a sample from each grower and on the following morning we receive a quality report detailing how much mechanical bruising we...
East: Third bruchid spray for spring beans
Spring beans will be receiving a final bruchid spray as they finish flowering. A pyrethroid and half rate pirimicarb will be used as levels of black bean aphids are increasing. This will be our third bruchid spray in some cases due...
Corn and Soybean Crop Conditions Variable | CSD Blogs and Opinions
Growing conditions for corn and soybeans are quite variable across Minnesota. In the southern quarter of the state most of the corn and soybeans were planted on a fairly timely basis, with some of the early planted corn now at 18-24 in. tall, but most corn being somewhat smaller.
MARCH DUST (David's Digest)
When I was a boy we had a saying on the farm that March dust was worth a guinea an ounce. In other words if the land was dry enough during the month to get all the crops drilled yields...
Jimmy Doherty pea harvesting
Jimmy Doherty's back on TV with his series A Farmer's Life for Me, but we reckon one of his best pieces of work was the 'Farming Heroes' series which aired a couple of years back. Here's a great clip from...
East: Stop-start spring may be on horizon
After a false start in early February, we are eagerly awaiting a drier spell to continue with fertiliser applications and spraying.Backward oilseed rape crops - those not treated during the dry spell - barley and late wheats are in need...
Great Weather for Potato Harvesting
Mouth of the Wash Matthew Naylor takes a Longer View from The Fens Great Weather for Potato Harvesting By Matthew Naylor on September 26, 2010 9:17 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks Tweet No TrackBacks TrackBack URL: httpwww.fwi.co.uk/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/173023 Leave a comment What a user pic? Get
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