Soil Health
How to grow a successful cover or catch crop
For many the option of establishing catch and cover crops is front of mind with harvest well underway ...
Soil Health
“Clever” post-harvest cultivations – Farmers Guide
In the rush to prepare ground for drilling, it can be all too easy to go straight in with the...
Horticultural agronomy
Flower formation is a two-year cycle – Vineyard
With some sites showing reduced flower initiation and bud viability this year, Hutchinsons agronomists Rob Saunders and Chris Cooper examine...
Arable
Top variety picks for winter wheat growers in the South West
With harvest well under way, attention turns to next season’s cropping choices and variety selections ...
Vegetable
Condenser drying could reduce cost of onion storage – The Vegetable Farmer
Onions have unique requirements in terms of conditioning and storage regimes, meaning that designing, building and operating onion stores presents...
Horticultural agronomy
HELIOS project update – The Fruit Grower
BIFGA held their Summer Farm Walk in early June at Boormans Farm, Kent, by kind permission of Peter, Gina and...
Arable
The importance of field scale data in decision making
Hutchinsons Helix Northumberland Farm at Barelees Farm, Cornhill-on-Tweed hosted an open day held in late June ...
Arable
Patience needed to stop soils slumping
Over-cultivating seedbeds, or cultivating them too soon after harvest, risks damaging soil structure and impairing following crop establishment, Hutchinsons technical...
Arable
To sell or incorporate straw – that is the question
The value of straw either for power stations, or traditional forage and bedding markets remains high and many growers will...
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