Author name: Direct Driller

Soil Resilience Strategy Launched To Answer Key Farming Sustainability Improvement Questions

How can I reduce tillage without adding to my risk? What are the best ways of cutting my vulnerability to the weather?How much carbon can I realistically capture? What do I need to do to achieve the most rewarding SFI soil standards?Where should I focus my improvement efforts for the greatest overall value? These are …

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Nutritional Benefits Of Regeneratively Grown Crops

A new American study shows how regenerative farming practices — soil-building techniques that minimise ploughing, the use of cover crops, plant diverse rotations etc — affect the nutritional content of the food Everyone knows fruit and vegetable are good for your health says the University of Washington News, but which of the dizzying array of …

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Groundswell 2022

There are probably as many different ways of farming as there are farmers. This certainly applies to farmers who aretrying to work out how to farm in a regenerative manner. I’m sure that you are all familiar with the five principles ofregenerative agriculture which give us a direction to work with nature rather than against …

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Products In Focus…

ONE APPLICATOR FOUR USES… SO FAR Microcast 200 applicator reduces crop passes, saves fuel andhelps a Northamptonshire farm reduce its carbon footprint Replacing a troublesome liquid fertiliser spreader on his John Deere 750A drill with a Microcast 200, an applicator designed for precision placement of seeds and granular products, has enabled arable farmer Andrew Pitts …

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Drill Manufacturers In Focus…

HORSCH PUSHES DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEMS In five short statements Michael and Philipp Horsch describe what they understand by autonomous driving systems, which technical requirements are necessary, how the topic developed in the HORSCH company and what will be required in the future. 1 Michael Horsch: Our first steps towards an autonomous driving system must …

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