Podcast: How to integrate new crops into your arable rotation

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Podcast: How to integrate new crops into your arable rotation

Growers keep being told ‘widen your rotation', but how do you manage risk with reward when it comes to growing new crops? How long should you give a crop in the rotation before throwing in the towel?

And where do you start in deciding what to grow? From alternative pulse markets, to Wildfarmed wheat, to the weird and wonderful, in this latest episode of Crop It Like It's Hot, we take a look at what other growers are giving a go, and how to measure success when it comes to integrating a new crop into your arable rotation.  

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Speakers

Ed Hutley, partner - Ceres Rural  

Nick Padwick - Farm manager, Wild Ken Hill  

Michael Shuldham, LS Plant Breeding and Pulses UK President 

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The Crop it Like it's Hot podcast is produced by Arable Farming and CropTec Show. Released monthly, the show sees the Arable Farming team talk to a range of arable experts to provide an alternative way of keeping up with agronomy and the latest arable developments.

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