"Unlike other parts of the country, in Cumbria we're not desperate for rain after 29mm during April. The last of the spring cereals were drilled in the first week of May, while most finished drilling maize...
"Unlike other parts of the country, in Cumbria we're not desperate for rain after 29mm during April. The last of the spring cereals were drilled in the first week of May, while most finished drilling maize...
Talking Policy with NFU head of combinable crops board, Jamie Burrows
Drilling date, grass-weed pressure and herbicide timing all need to be weighed carefully this autumn, with field-by-field decisions and robust herbicide programmes key to protecting crop potential
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