TYRE TECHNOLOGIES TAKING SOIL PROTECTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL With farm machinery getting increasingly heavier, tyre manufacturers are having to work harder than ever to ensure their products are keeping damage in the field to a minimum. Here we speak to Gordon Brookes, Customer Engineering Support Manager at Michelin, to learn more about the latest …
STRIGER STRIP-TILL FOCUS In response to the growing interest in minimal tillage cultivations, KUHN has developed its Striger strip-till range and will be showing the machine at Groundswell 2022. Available from 4 to 12 rows, the Striger 100 is designed around a parallelogram system that allows all elements to operate independently, ensuring excellent ground following …
SOLAR-POWERED SEED-N-WEED ROBOT WITH SIMPLICITY ON ITS SIDE A fully autonomous, solar-powered robot capable of precision drilling and weeding has joined the OPICO line up and will be on display at Groundswell this June. Offering pesticide-free weed control with zero fuel and minimal labour bills, the FarmDroid is the brainchild of two Danish farmers and …
31ST JULY TO 5TH AUGUST 2022 The World Congress of Soil Science 2022 (WCSS 22) is a leading international soil science conference, held every fouryears in different countries and attended by over 3,000 soil scientists from around the globe. The next Congress isbeing organised by the British Society of Soil Science on behalf of the …
STRIPPING BACK ESTABLISHMENT COSTS Looking to reduce the cost of producing grain maize, Andy Longman of Snagg Farm near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, has opted for a Kultistrip to develop strip tillage practices for the high value forage crop. It followed a demonstration in 2021, where a six-row Kultistrip was put to work, preparing ground ahead …
Agriweld’s low disturbance cultivation range provides numerous options to reduce tillage methods in line with modern, minimum tillage systems. Tillage reduction provides many benefits, including enhancing soil aggregation and promoting biological activity, leading to greater available soil moisture and improved soil tilth. Reducing tillage can also be economically advantageous for farmers, by minimizing passes and …
NEW MZURI IPASS LOW DISTURBANCE DRILL SHOWCASED AT CEREALS 2022 WITH NEW LOWERLINK SENSING DRAWBAR British manufacturer’s Mzuri have recently launched their new low disturbance, iPass direct drill at LAMMA earlier this year which continued its public tour at Cereals in June. Staying true to the Mzuri concept, the iPass has been designed to achieve …
If you are like us, then you don’t know where to start when it comes to other reading apart from farming magazines.However, there is so much information out there that can help us understand our businesses, farm better andunderstand the position of non-farmers. We have listed a few more books you might find interesting, challenge …
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This is a great example of how the world changes and with it our better understanding of farming methods. Jethro Tull (1674– 1741) was an early English agricultural experimentalist whose book The New Horse Hoeing Husbandry: An Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation was published in 1731. It was the first textbook on …
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