Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly Spring malting barley crops are showing promising grain quality from the early harvested areas across south and eastern England, although yields are a touch disappointing after such a difficult growing season.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 26, 2024

As Ian Epp, agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada explains in this Canola School, farmers have several options to consider when staging for pre-harvest applications. There are so many agronomic decisions to make when growing canola, and those decisions don’t stop even as the season comes to a close with combines ready to roll.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 29, 2024

It’s no secret that there was still 2023 crop on-farm at the end of July. Some of that old crop won’t have moved even as the calendar flips to September. I’m not sure that this is uncommon during cycles where the market is in decline over an extended period. For three years prior, the best. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 20, 2024

As cereal crops race to the finish line across Ontario, many growers are weighing the option of planting soybeans after a first harvest, which is already underway in some winter barley fields in southwestern portions of the province. farmer Ian Matheson and his family have been double cropping soybeans for two decades.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Customer feedback is the driving force behind a stack of updates farmers will see in New Holland’s 2025 FR Forage Cruiser self-propelled forage harvesters. Read More Customer feedback is the driving force behind a stack of updates farmers will see in New Holland’s 2025 FR Forage Cruiser self-propelled forage harvesters.

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Agric4profits

AUGUST 19, 2024

Harvesting of crops generally is the task that constitutes the concluding stage of land cultivation. Harvesting includes several steps such as cutting in the ca

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Potato harvest is nearly complete for RG Abrey Farms in Norfolk, which has been pioneering an innovative camera-based system to drive yield and marketability across its potato crop.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 12, 2024

Spring seeded cereals are on a real decline in Ontario, but the use of cover crops after wheat harvest is definitely on an upward trend. Read More Spring seeded cereals are on a real decline in Ontario, but the use of cover crops after wheat harvest is definitely on an upward trend. Why does that matter? Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

James Hammerton is looking for innovative ways to increase crop production efficiency. first appeared on The Sharp Edge in 2020 to share how he uses a stripper header to harvest and prepare wheat fields for double crop soybeans. Read More James Hammerton is looking for innovative ways to increase crop production efficiency.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly With a return to rainy weather after 10 September, harvest slowed and was eventually completed on 3 October. This is not unusually late, but it felt like a long harvest, starting on 20 July, only a day later than last year.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers are seriously considering sowing more crops for pollinators and wild birds under the Sustainable Farming Incentive, rather than arable crops, as way of reducing their risks and future-proofing their businesses.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

Farmers Weekly Yorkshire Wolds grower Mark Ullyott is impressed with the new winter barley variety Caravelle, saying it is the best seed crop of barley he has grown for more than 10 years and he will be growing it again this coming season. The two-row feed variety yielded 8.5-9.5t/ha

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 is now finished all bar 10ha of lentils, which look like they will be ready at the end of the month. Like last year, they were grown as a bi-crop with camelina, which is supposed to act as a pea-stick to hold them up for harvest.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Harvesting is a crucial stage in agriculture, marking the time when crops are collected for consumption or sale. The methods and techniques used in harvesting c

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 18, 2024

A recent harvest market rally, plus the likelihood of a good wheat crop in Oklahoma and Texas, offer encouragement to Southwest producers.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 10, 2023

A newly-tasselled corn field indicates that silage harvest is only 45 to 50 days away. As producers speed down the runway toward silage harvest takeoff, Pioneer Seeds Canada nutritionist Ashley Knapton says now’s the time to look at key factors that will influence silage quality and how a well-managed silage crop can contribute to farm.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Harvested crop materials or fresh produce is living and continues to perform its metabolic functions in the post- harvest state. These metabolic functions influ

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 12, 2024

Ontario winter wheat growers are crossing their fingers and holding their breath as a potential record crop heads into its final weeks of grain fill and approaches harvest. RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson says a key yield indicator he’s been watching is the number of seeds at each spikelete. Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Kubota expects to make fruit harvesting drones available to North American fruit farmers as early as 2025. The autonomous flying harvesters captured lots of attention at Agritechnica ’23 as the equipment manufacturer showed off the potential of its collaboration with technology developer Tevel.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2023

Not without controversy, applying glyphosate prior to harvesting a crop can help with crop and weed dry-down. If done too early, while the plant is still moving nutrients up into the kernels, a pre-harvest pass can cause glyphosate residues in the resulting grain.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 is coming to an end throughout the country as spring barley is cut in the North, with this week’s heatwave keeping moisture contents below the drying threshold. Morayshire This week’s high temperatures, in the mid-20Cs, have been good for crops, says Frank Thomson, near Clochan.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

After record-breaking yields in 2022, Manitoba endured some dry summer growing conditions to produce a good crop with most growers harvesting above-average yields, reports Manitoba Ag pulse and soybean specialist Dennis Lange. In Ontario, the crop emerged well despite dry. In Ontario, the crop emerged well despite dry.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Identification of breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis. Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa. No word on the role of expert harvesters.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly Just 5% of the winter wheat and spring barley crop in Britain has been cut in a delayed wet weather harvest, although these figures will have risen sharply after a dry spell in the second half of last week.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

When looking at any pesticide label there should be three words that make you stop, think, and mark the calendar: pre-harvest interval. The pre-harvest interval — PHI — is the minimum time necessary between application of a product and cutting the crop, either by swathing or straight-cutting. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After an unseasonably wet harvest this year, farmers in some parts of the country are seeing next year’s crops rotting under floodwater. NFU deputy […] The post Farmers demand government action as crops submerge appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest has been hampered by wet ground conditions. This is according to Michael Carpenter, technical director of feed preservation specialist Kelvin Cave.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

Farmers Weekly Somerset grower Charles Quick managed to catch a break between the rainstorms to make a start on winter wheat harvest, before this week’s forecast of heavy rain. Cutting into a crop of Graham over the weekend on the outskirts of Taunton, Charles was pleased with budgeted yields of 8.5-9t/ha

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What can farmers learn about combine settings from machines running in neighbouring fields or those harvesting wheat in fields over 8,000 miles away in Australia? Read More What can farmers learn about combine settings from machines running in neighbouring fields or those harvesting wheat in fields over 8,000 miles away in Australia?

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly More than one-third of the total winter wheat crop area across Great Britain has now been cut, but farmers are still catching up on harvest due to variable weather.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 25, 2024

Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. Read More Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. Read More Farmers are looking for two things during harvest: efficiency and a clean sample. Read More

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Crop harvesting and storage are critical stages in agriculture that directly affect the quality and quantity of produce. Harvesting refers

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly This has been the worst winter wheat harvest in 11 years at Downpatrick, and what a summer we have had. Wheat crops initially showed a lot of potential, but unfortunately this didn’t play through to harvest as we had limited sun and too much rain.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 21, 2024

The big corn Ontario crop of 2023 is doing what analysts suspected it would to cash prices — and it’s not a rosy picture. says that a seasonal post-harvest rally didn’t even happen, which was a little surprising, and Ontario farmers have got plenty of corn. Phil Shaw, market analyst and farmer from Dresden, Ont.,

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As the 2024 Ontario corn crop races to the finish line with help from a late summer stretch of hot weather, growers are now seeing the challenges created by spring planting conditions and pest and disease pressures.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Winter barley harvest has been a stop-start affair at the Trinley Estate in Hampshire, where farm manager Mike Farrell began cutting the hybrid variety Thunderbolt last week, with yields of just over 10t/ha.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Part 3: Delta Farm Press checks in with four farmers for a late season, early harvest update.

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