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The UK's Premier Agricultural Machinery and Technology Show

20–21 January 2027, NEC, Birmingham

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Providing extended spring drilling windows in wet conditions

With an ability to grow on various soil types, sunflowers are quickly gaining traction – thanks to increasing marketability – as an attractive low-input alternative to cereal crops

Ashleigh Ellwood
Head of Arable
clock • 4 min read
Providing extended spring drilling windows in wet conditions

As the wet weather continues, growers may be looking for spring cropping options with an extended drilling window to give heavy, clay-based soil conditions the chance to dry out and become more workable....

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