Some new houses are being built close to us and there has just been a delivery of bricks. The lorry was large and had an equally large trailer and in-between the two was a mini-crane to lift off the pallets of bricks. This is quite a coincidence as I was …
Scientists and editors spend hours upon hours writing reports. This is true for all levels of science, including the applied research that may be of direct value to the farmer. So how many of these reports do you read or is it that much of this effort is …
The last couple of blogs have been about black-grass alongside field size and biodiversity. There’s a rather thin thread of a connection between the two subjects. Are the current issues over black-grass control going to result in more spring-sown crops? A …
Last week something did not happen. Let me explain what I’m talking about and why it’s heartening news. In the middle of last week I suddenly started to receive emails suggesting that there was going to be a major announcement the following morning on a …
We now have a few new registrations coming through that have been completed since the HSE’s Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD) introduced its interim arrangements on assessing aquatic buffer zones. The new product Teridox ( dimethachlor ) has a buffer …
As you may have heard, NIAB TAG have set up a task-force to investigate the 2012 yield performance issues in winter wheat , with the aim of understanding and explaining the drop in yield across much of the country as well as significant local yield …
You can imagine Michael Caine saying ‘not a lot of people know that’ when you hear that more sunlight hits the surface of the earth in one hour than the entire human race uses in a whole year. Solar panels can generate electricity from solar radiation but …
It came as a real shock when my wife informed me that the local corner store was selling blemished apples. Perhaps it’s worth mentioning that our local corner store is a Waitrose supermarket and apparently they’ve done it before under the banner of fruit …
I gave a talk in Cornwall last week. It was the only the second time I have visited that county as part of my job and the subject of the talk was equally unusual for me; weed control in grassland. A large part of my presentation was about keeping …
If you write a blog there is a huge amount of fodder in a recent report of a desk study on the contributory causes of the current ‘yield plateau’ in wheat and oilseed rape. Funded by Defra and AHDB HGCA it was carried out by my colleagues at NIAB TAG with …
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