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GT Bunning & Sons
Did you know one of the primary manufacturers of muck spreaders and pallet inverters sits snugly next to a community pub on a quiet village green in the heart of the upper Wensum catchment? A fascinating evening with some of the team at Bunnings, Gressenhall. We were shown the production processes from start to finish,…
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Goop & Paludiculture
No, I haven’t made either of these words up. Despite sounding like a fairy-tale villain, these terms both refer to ways of ensuring you are managing your soil to the best of your ability given its conditions. Goop is an exciting product launched by Daniel Tyrkiel, Director of the Soil Ecology Lab. He spoke to…
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Member Insights: Sennowe Estate, Guist
It has been a very different autumn this year and a first in my farming career. We have not planted any combinable winter sown crops! But the drill has been very busy drilling cover crops, grass on fields coming pigs and several CSS and SFI mixes. It doesn’t feel right, but when you look at…
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Member Insights: Sparham Hall Farm, Lyng
The ‘straw’ harvest is over for another year – not much straw, though. The winter barleys held up pretty well considering the severe heat and long drought; but the spring barley here was truly awful and I’m done with it for good. The maize will soon start to be harvested if heatwave number 4 goes…
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