Back Issue - Direct Driller Magazine 2

Back Issue - Direct Driller Magazine 2

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CONTENTS

Introduction.........................................................................................4

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Modern Wheat Varieties ....................6

Making Your own Compost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Farmer Focus: Alex Shutes ..................................................................10

Influence of Cutting Height on Stubble Management............................12

Featured Farmer: Steve Lear................................................................16

Leaving the Comfort Zone ..................................................................22

Robots doing Direct Drilling................................................................27

Direct Driller goes International ..........................................................28

Would you like to Write for Driect Driller? ...........................................29

Cover Crop Species ............................................................................30

Using Peas as an Agronomic Weeding Tool...........................................37

A Farming Step Change.......................................................................39

Farmer Focus: Tom Sewell...................................................................44

Grazing Crop Residues........................................................................46

Is Rape ready for a Revival?.................................................................47

Farmer Focus: Andrew Howard ...........................................................52

Direct Drilling content on The Farming Forum......................................53

Groundswell 2018..............................................................................54

Direct Drilling back in the 1970s .........................................................58

Are we mining the Soil? ......................................................................59

Is Glyphosate the 4th Pillar of CA........................................................61

Rolling Cover Crops............................................................................64

Upcoming Events ...............................................................................70

Classfieds ..........................................................................................73

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