Guy Shelby Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire Guy Shelby is a member of the exclusive 5t/ha oilseed rape club, has wheat yields that are into double digits and last year, his beans averaged 7.5t/ha. But what makes this even more remarkable is that it is being achieved while farming difficult soils at sea level and getting on top of a blackgrass problem. Guy puts part of this success down to his switch to strip-tillage three years ago combined with a greater focus […]
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