Brewing up a biosolution - how one farmer has replaced chemistry with biology

It has been eight years since Tim Parton began using biostimulants and since their introduction, yield plateaus have been broken, chemical fungicides have been abolished and disease bills average £40/hectare.

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Brewing up a biosolution - how one farmer has replaced chemistry with biology

Since biostimulants were introduced at Brewood Park Farm in Staffordshire eight years ago, yield plateaus have been broken, chemical fungicides have been abolished and disease bills now average £40/hectare....

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