Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Thankfully, Ben […] The post Farmer Focus: Direct-drilling impossible after straw chopping appeared first on Farmers Weekly Not only did the weather drag things out, but machinery breakdowns, brackled and laid crops and fatigue all tested team morale.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 6, 2024

Dairy farmers looking for consistently short-chopped straw for total mixed rations should take a look at Teagle’s Tomahawk 8250 bale processor. Read More Dairy farmers looking for consistently short-chopped straw for total mixed rations should take a look at Teagle’s Tomahawk 8250 bale processor.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Also in this week’s podcast, catch a conversation about straw losses by raking, lowering. Also in this week’s podcast, catch a conversation about straw losses by raking, lowering. Read More There’s some trouble lurking in the Ontario corn crop by the name of gibberella. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Winter barley was safely gathered in by 21 July, with a good proportion of the straw baled before the weather broke. Any straw left unbaled at that point sat in the field for almost a fortnight. Farmers Weekly Despite mother nature’s best attempts to disrupt harvest, we are progressing well.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly Our latest ferret around the nation’s machinery sheds features Herefordshire farmers, contractors and hay/straw dealers James, Phil and Sarah Wildig. See also: What’s in Your Shed?

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Three covered silage clamps, including 4,000t of stored hay and straw, were destroyed in the blaze last week. Farmers Weekly NFU Cymru president Aled Jones has suffered a devastating fire at his dairy farm in the outskirts of Caernarfon in north Wales.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 14, 2023

Grain was put straight away into silos and straw baled. Yields were below average for both grain and straw, […] The post Farmer Focus: Disappointing BYDV-tolerant winter barley yields appeared first on Farmers Weekly Fortunately, the winter barley was fit by the time the combine came through at 12.5%

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It took more than a fortnight to bale the oat straw, […] The post Farmer Focus: Rain and series of breakdowns add to challenges appeared first on Farmers Weekly We got the cover crops drilled, beans, spring oats and barley cut, potatoes topped and cultivation done in the Indian summer. Then it rained.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 12, 2023

The weather, the falling lamb price, wet straw – all pants. Farmers Weekly Things have been pretty “pants” recently. And I lost my mother recently, so I can confirm that becoming an orphan – admittedly at 55 – is pants.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The winter wheat straw was all baled, with very little getting wet – a credit to all involved. […] The post Farmer Focus: Winter wheat down 1t/ha, but quality good appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly After receiving 110mm of rain in July, we then had 102mm in August. The rest was all part-days and stop and start.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 8, 2023

The simplest 8200s use a combination of bed chains and crossbeater to break up silage and straw before ejecting it through a swivelling chute to bed cattle or distribute feed. Farmers Weekly Teagle’s popular mounted 7100 and trailed 8100 Tomahawk bale processors are to be superseded by a new-look two-model range.

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Agric4profits

JUNE 30, 2024

Oat stalks, also known as oat straw, are the fibrous stems of the oat plant that remain after the grain has been harvested. These stalks play a significant role

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Agric4profits

AUGUST 18, 2023

There are a few characteristics that distinguish bugs from other insects: Most bugs have a straw-shaped Bugs belong to an order of insects called Hemiptera.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 23, 2023

Field Snapshot: Wheat fungicide application bumps yield and improves the quality of straw.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 13, 2023

Northeast Roundup: Help update the Maryland hay and straw directory; Vermont crops field day set.

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ATTRA

APRIL 29, 2024

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have developed a bioplastic pellet made from marine polysaccharide (chitosan), eggshells, and wheat straw that absorbs phosphate nutrient pollutant from water. The biodegradable pellets can then be applied to agricultural land as fertilizer.

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Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Rice lemma, also known as rice straw or rice chaff, is the stalk or stem of the rice plant (Oryza sativa) that remains after the grains of rice have been harves

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Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

Finally, everyone gathered around a long table covered in sterilized straw and learned how to inoculate different substrates with fungi spawn. A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw. Straw wattles and jute landscape fabric are two erosion control materials that are easily inoculated with fungi.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Root crops and tuber beds are generally clean and free of residue after harvest, which make them an easy location to direct seed with any seeder, or broadcast seed, followed by applying a straw mulch. If you live in a high-rainfall climate, I recommend applying straw mulch after seeding to reduce crusting and soil loss.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Straw or hay bedding can help insulate the ground and provide warmth. Consider investing in a battery-operated heater for small spaces, such as birthing or sick pens. Bedding and Comfort In winter, proper bedding is crucial for cattle comfort. Ensure your cattle have a clean and dry place to rest, especially during calving season.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But last year, he had to bring them in, in December, and they could not return to the pasture until May, which added hugely to the costs for feed and straw. Walton also spends £15,000 on straw and he has to pay £20,000 in land rent. He may also have to reduce stock numbers to save on feed, straw and fertiliser.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Straw or hay bedding can help insulate the ground and provide warmth. Consider investing in a battery-operated heater for small spaces, such as birthing or sick pens. Bedding and Comfort In winter, proper bedding is crucial for cattle comfort. Ensure your cattle have a clean and dry place to rest, especially during calving season.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? They increase the depth of the roots and the water intake and volume. Phosphorus is responsible for this, and it also allows for better seed growth. This means that there’s 10% of Nitrogen (N), 10% Phosphorus (P), and 10% Potassium (K).

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The Lunatic Farmer

JUNE 29, 2022

Buried in the Wall Street Journal story is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back: Proposition 12 passed in 2018 that outlaws the use of gestation crates for sows on factory farms. The stated reasons for the closure are corporate taxes, labor costs, utility costs (3.5 times higher than anywhere else).

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. As she undertook the cumbersome process of cleaning the wool, Maksymiuk realized she would end up with a lot of unusable material. Bags of this “waste wool” sat around for a long time, with Maksymiuk unsure what to do with it.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

When any unfinished compost smells, it needs carbon—such as wood chips or shredded straw—and turning. .” Rose Seeman Add the variables of climate, weather and available materials to get a sense of the trial and error aspect.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You can immediately make the decision that you’re going to remove straws from your restaurant or figure out that $20 is the minimum wage that you should be paying. How can restaurant owners seeking to be advocates overcome the obstacles posed by the industry? Policy advocacy takes time.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. So instead of using a soggy paper straw, you can use a biodegradable corn straw. A Pressing Problem Plastic pollution is a major problem.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In her corral design work, Temple emphasizes that a tiny fluttering piece of straw on the wall of a chute might as well be an elephant-sized predator to a cow. They don't want vacations, change of scenery, change of schedule. Living in the moment means you don't want surprises.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

It is always covered with straw, leaf mold, or wood chips,” says Leah Penniman, the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. “We Even if not measured with a microscope, there are signs of fungi at work—like dark, spongious soil. The roots of a cowpea plant, with fungi stained in blue, under a microscope.(Photo

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

Farmers once used straw or other organic matter instead of plastic mulch. Changing our ways But as plastics become ever more heavily relied upon, it’s easy to forget that we didn’t used to have them and there are a number of practices that could be substituted.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The final straw for Hachmyer was losing half of her crops in 2021 to drought. “I couldn’t keep martyring myself,” she says. Farmer Caiti Hachmyer focuses on cool-weather crops to prioritize her health as the summers in her hometown of Sebastopol, California, grow hotter.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2024

“My weekly visits to the local farmers’ markets still find an overabundance and reliance on plastic pint containers of berries, single-use plastic bags,and straws! I thought we were done with straws, really?” Bradley’s lament probably feels familiar to most sustainability-minded consumers. Plastic is truly everywhere.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2023

Called the Nigiri Project for its fish-on-rice concept, it’s a collaboration between researchers and farmers that floods rice fields in the winter, helping to break down rice straw while offering juvenile salmon and waterfowl conditions that mimic the bug-rich floodplain ecosystems to which they’re adapted.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Cotton growing at Viriditas Farm, where rotational crops like heirloom Sonora wheat bolster root material and straw to build soil organic matter with each crop year. Central Valley growers and researchers are incorporating carbon farming to help soil store carbon and water; abilities lost to decades of conventional practices.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The canvas covers a spacious area with deep straw bedding, and towards the back is a good sized ‘run’ with one corner designated by the inhabitants as the ‘toilet’ – pigs are very clean and don’t soil their resting and feeding area. To the side of the paddock are several large tents, each home to a group of 20 male or female weaned pigs.

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