James Pick

Third generation mixed farmer on the North Yorkshire coast, specialising in potatoes | NSch 22

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I am incredibly proud to share my #nuffieldfarming report. Thank you to everyone who has helped along the way, especially Alan and Anne Beckett who kindly sponsored my study.
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@millar_robbie @LFCApproved Rattled

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Maverick
Pt312
Craft X2

All up and away nicely. 31mm yesterday will move things on. 67.5mm for the month so far. Nice to have new crops emerging bringing an air of positivity with them!

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@AFCMRees 🔫

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@VictorHolistic Looking good Victor. How is the weather holding up? We have had 55mm since Saturday! When it rains it pours 🤣

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The last of the 2023 crop on its way out. Finished planting 2024 crop yesterday and back to winning ways at cricket. Proper weekend! Thanks to Russell’s for the demo Manitou 841. Cracking machine!

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It seems there is a higher presence of grass weeds for the second year in a row. Are we losing the fight against grass weeds? Or have we already lost it and this is the norm?

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@benjy_pearson Have a gooden mate x

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Really happy with how our heavier land is looking. Num3 planted on Tuesday with 750A after a pass of Heva stealth. 26.5mm yesterday. 6 years no-till is really paying dividends for the soil structure. This field is around 25% clay content

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@VictorHolistic Looks to be going well! We should
pass the halfway mark tomorrow. It’s been a long spring 😅

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@VictorHolistic @theladyfarmer I will try no turn compost one day Victor!

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Before I spend a small fortune importing compost biological starter: has anyone had success using starter made in the UK?

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@theladyfarmer Whilst the biology in manure isn’t to be sniffed at, I am trying to inoculate soil with N fixing bacteria. This may already be happening at small levels but I am interested to see to what extent I can do this with compost

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@theladyfarmer I am hoping to reduce our N use. The starter I have my eye on is a powder which will be spread on the manure prior to turning. It has a range of bacteria which will fix N and make other nutrients available. Compost by Fletcher Simms and Acres USA is a good read if interested.

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@bencm305 Would like to know how it hasn’t attracted pigeons! Starting to do a bit of damage to our OSR after a successful month or two keeping them away!

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@AFCMRees Clapping the batter when walking off if they haven’t made a half decent contribution

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@ArableSam Makes sense!

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@AFCMRees Look at her pinned tweet

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