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Tillage Management: rain, wet land and price offers

There was rain, rain and more rain in the last few days meaning it will be a while before land can be travelled on.

HUSBANDRY 28 January 2026

Tillage Management: rain, wet land and price offers

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Tillage Management: crop rules, slurry and varieties

Tillage Management: crop rules, slurry and varieties

HUSBANDRY 14 January 2026

Tillage Management: good conditions and catching up on spraying

Tillage Management: good conditions and catching up on spraying

HUSBANDRY 7 January 2026

Tillage Management: cover crop management from 1 January

Tillage Management: cover crop management from 1 January

Tillage Management: cover crop management from 1 January

HUSBANDRY 30 December 2025

Tillage management: wet fields, soil-sampling and planning

Tillage management: wet fields, soil-sampling and planning

Tillage management: wet fields, soil-sampling and planning

HUSBANDRY 24 December 2025

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Tillage management: records, straw payments, fertiliser and wild oats

Tillage management: records, straw payments, fertiliser and wild oats

This week’s management notes focus on management, paper work and preparing for the new year ahead.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

Tillage Management: nitrates, weather and herbicides

Tillage Management: nitrates, weather and herbicides

New nitrates rules are mainly positive for tillage farmers with some restrictions on manures applied in the autumn time.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

Tillage Management: rainfall levels, payments and winter jobs

Tillage Management: rainfall levels, payments and winter jobs

Fields are very wet in most places at the minute so there won’t be too many out with a plough or a sprayer for another while.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

Tillage management: rainfall levels, temperatures and rules

Tillage management: rainfall levels, temperatures and rules

This week we look at rainfall levels and how reduced temperatures could reduce aphid numbers and the risk of BYDV.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

Tillage Management: safety, seed and winter jobs

Tillage Management: safety, seed and winter jobs

There are loads of winter jobs to be done, from walking the fields to putting antifreeze in the sprayer.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

Tillage Management: oilseed rape, hedges and soil samples

Tillage Management: oilseed rape, hedges and soil samples

Soil samples should be taken before land gets to wet on farms and this year you must comply with new rules.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

Tillage Management: walking the fields for disease, slugs and soil inspections

Tillage Management: walking the fields for disease, slugs and soil inspections

Oilseed rape crops need to be checked for disease, cereals for slugs and take a walk into cover crops to see what is happening.

HUSBANDRY 29 October 2025

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