Category: Cover Crops

1. Judicious Drill Adjustments Pay Dividends

   Posted on 12:00pm Friday 22nd Mar 2019

   - Farmers Guardian

   When transitioning from deep cultivation systems to min till or direct drilling, care must be taken to ensure drills were adjusted to take account of differing soil conditions explained Dick Neale, technical manager at Hutchinsons.

2. Estate Builds Healthier Soils Within an Intensive Rotation

   Posted on 12:00pm Tuesday 12th Mar 2019

   - Midland Farmer

   • Profit and soils status both important
   • Small changes can bring big benefits
   • Long term approach to improvements

   A Shropshire estate is determined to show soil health can be improved within an intensive root-cropping rotation as it strives to bolster its environmental and financial sustainability.

3. Soils fertile but structure may be suffering – The Vegetable Farmer

   Posted on 1:00pm Monday 11th Feb 2019

   While soils used for brassica growing in the Lincolnshire belt are among the most fertile in the country, their structural integrity is among the least resilient, says Hutchinsons technical manager Dick Neale.

4. Building Healthier Soils Within an Intensive Rotation

   Posted on 12:00pm Tuesday 29th Jan 2019

   A Shropshire estate is determined to show soil health can be improved within an intensive root-cropping rotation as it strives to bolster its environmental and financial sustainability.

   The 350ha Isle Estate on the banks of the River Severn northwest of Shrewsbury has been owned by the same family since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and its current lifetime tenant and trustee Edward Tate is eager to secure a sustainable future for the farm.