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• Soil Management for Potatoes

  View revised 2013 pre-print version "Soil Management for Potatoes" guide.

• R406 Water Use Efficiency Through Soil and Plant Water Balance

  Aim: To improve the efficiency of water use in GB production by understanding the interactions between soil and plant water status and evaporative demand.Irrigation is often poorly scheduled in GB,...

• Chris Steele’s Top Planting Tips

  If seedbed preparation is inadequate, even the best soils will produce inferior crops as uniform sprout emergence and young plant vigour depend on a consistent, firm, porous, moist bed, says...

• Steps towards making irrigation more efficient

  Making the most efficient use of irrigation is becoming increasingly important as application costs spiral. While checking equipment is often the first action that springs to mind, a little time...

• Raising issues awareness at Winter Forums

  Input losses can cause inadvertent pollution and can affect growers’ profit margins, says Nigel Simpson, project manager for Catchment Sensitive Farming, who will be speaking at this year’s Winter...

• 807/228 Evaluation of the Soil Nitrogen Supply (SNS) system

  Aim: To evaluate the soil nitrogen supply (SNS) system and to refine the recommendations on nitrogen usage.This three year project at CUF focussed on the initial relationships between soil N,...

• Harvester settings guide for wet soils

• Harvester settings guide for dry soils

• Harvester settings guide for average soil moisture

• Bruising risk assessment advice sheet 12 - Soil moisture at harvest

  Soil moisture at harvest is a well known, key factor in relation to the levels of bruising. Extremes of soil moisture, such as very wet or very dry, will challenge the harvester operator. In very...

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