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See us at stand 1102-5 “The reduction in the basic


payment scheme and prospect of lower incomes [mean] we need to grow crops for less, so reducing costs is a priority,” says Mr Hogs- bjerg, of Wicken Farms at Castle Acre, near Swaffham. Restrictions on agro-chemical products have also fuelled a dif- ferent approach, he adds. “Given that backdrop, and with less new chemistry in the pipeline, our fo- cus is very much on harnessing developments in plant breeding technology.”


The 900ha privately-owned business produces cereals and


root crops. This includes winter wheat and hybrid winter barley.


No set rotation BASIS qualified, Mr Hogsbjerg does most of the cereal agronomy himself, with input from an inde- pendent agronomist. “We don’t re- ally have a set rotation because of all of the root crops which are produced here, both by ourselves and others,” he says. “We grow a significant area of irrigated crops – 80ha of po-


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