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Living up to the SFI and its actions
The SFI offers financial payments to those who adopt variable rate applications, but demonstrating compliance is more than a tick-box exercise, explains Rhiza product manager Ben Foster The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) has much to offer growers from payments for environmental actions, to incentives that improve sustainability, productivity and, importantly, business resilience. With 102 actions …
Agronomist in Focus – Simon Francis
New ‘boots-on-the-ground’ precision farming service A new service makes the benefits of precision farming accessible without growers having to master all its complexities, says ProCam’s UK Technical and Services Manager, Simon Francis. Using satellite mapping of soil and crop variability across fields, the new FieldSense service derives tailored variable rate input applications to improve economic …
We can benefit from innovation
Our production systems must become more resilient in order to combine productivity, climate protection and biodiversity. How can this be achieved, what role does digitalisation play, and where are the new opportunities? We pose these and other questions to Hubertus Paetow, President of DLG in Germany. The advancing climate change, increasing loss of biodiversity, the …
Ensure Your No-Till Vision is 20/20 with Precision Technology
By Erin Hightower agronomist for RDO Equipment Company Recently, I visited my optometrist for an annual eye examination. As we discussed my prescription, I experienced a familiar line of questioning while looking through different lenses: “Is one better?” Click. “Or two?” The optometrist leaned in and casually asked, “How about three?” Instantly, every letter’s line was clear …
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New technology connecting the lab to the field
Drone technology is unlocking the potential of traditional crop trials and helping to bridge the gap between detailed laboratory studies and field trials. Drones were used to assess an oilseed rape trial this spring at a site in Yorkshire, gathering data that hasn’t been possible before. The trial is a collaboration between Envirofield, Agrii and …
The optics of pest invasions
Light based sensors could provide early warning of pollen beetle infestation in oilseed rape writes Dr Samantha Cook of Rothamsted Research. High tech optical sensors in fields could provide an effective means of monitoring beetle numbers arriving in oilseed rape fields, according to a new study. Results from an optically sensed field were compared to …
3 Reasons Why Regen Farmers Should Use More Precision Technology
Regen farmers tend to be early adopters of technology because they’re very comfortable with change and challenges, but there are gains to be made from precision technology writes Steve Savage. First Published in No-Till Farmer – USA In a 2023 US Ag Equipment Intelligence survey, regen farmers projected what technology they expected to purchase within the next …
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Digital Technology Farm Network explores data-driven ‘fields of the future’
Which digital technologies hold the most commercial value for UK farms and how can they best be developed, integrated and managed to deliver that value in practice? Agrii digital agronomy development manager Lucy Cottingham explores a novel farm network set up to answer these and other future-focussed questions. The pace of digital development is truly …
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Data driven sheep management
A change in circumstances meant Herefordshire-based mixed farmer, William Cawley, had to reassess his system to adapt to changes being made by his landlord. Leading to an overhaul of his current sheep enterprise, Mr Cawley now prides himself on a data-driven approach to on-farm decision-making. Mr Cawley runs a successful mixed farm enterprise across Croft …