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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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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