A LIVING SOIL – THE KEY TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTUREMANAGEMENT Simtech Aitchison has become a major player on the UK direct-drilling scene in recent years, producing a variety of machines all based on the Inverted T-Slot principle. They cover the broadest range of direct-drills on the market, encompassing arable, mixed, upland and lowland pasture and …
BIOFIL – LIQUID ORGANIC SOIL INOCULANT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK BioFil is a liquid organic bacterial soil inoculant which has been used by Hungarian farmers for more than 5 years with great results. The products are finally being launched in the UK and will be available from Farm Marketplace from January 2019. Research …
By Thierry Stokkermans There is one country where some contractors seed 3000 hectares per year with a 3 metre wide drill, and it is New Zealand. It is not a country of wide plains… most paddocks have odd shapes. How do they do this? New Zealand has a mild oceanic climate and numerous mountains. Their …
How NZ Contractors No-Till 3000HA/Year With A 3M Seeder Read More »
DALE DRILLS – MEIR AGRICULTURAL LAMMA 2019 will see the launch of a new low disturbance Soil Conditioner developed by the team at Dale Drills. As a non-drilling piece of equipment, the Dale’s decided to launch the product under a new brand, Meir Agricultural, named after owners Tom and James Dale’s late maternal Grandfather, Thomas …
After successfully completing the multi-year research project MARS (Mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms) in collaboration with the Ulm University of Applied Sciences and the EU research funding, AGCO and Fendt decided to develop the robot project up to series-production readiness for the Fendt brand. The entire system, including small robots operating in swarms and a cloud-based …
XAVER: Robot System For Planting And Accurate Documentation Read More »
10th October 2018 – At Nantwich Football Club Calcium has a key role in maintaining healthy, fertile soils and the production of high-quality crops and forages. Yet it is estimated that 60% of UK soils are below optimal levels of pH and calcium, and the importance of this key nutrient is often overlooked. To help …
Conference Highlights Calcium’s Vital Role In Soil Nutrition Read More »
CAN’T AFFORD A CROSS SLOT, THINK AGAIN… The Cross Slot from New Zealand has for many become the pinnacle of drills, with unique coulter, ADF technology and heavy build quality that was second to none. This unrivalled quality came at a price, built in and imported from New Zealand any Cross Slot Drill that arrived …
Based on Interview with Dr John Baker, CrossSlot New Zealand.Medicine has made quantum leaps in research, treatment and surgical procedures in recent years – now it’s time for arable farming to follow suit. Where medicine has moved from invasive to keyhole surgery, agriculture has gone from keyhole to invasive farming, resulting in the depletion of …
Medicine’s Gone From Invasive To Keyhole, Farming From Keyhole To Invasive Read More »
No-till remains the most exciting, and challenging, development in global farming today. My six years of continuous and enthusiastic journalism on the subject has come at a time of an ever-increasing flow of information. For notillers and those contemplating it, knowledge is essential. However there’s another challenge: getting information into the world of farm supplies …
Written by Mark Measures BSc. (Hons.), IOTA (Accredited), ARAgS, Churchill Fellow 2017 of the Organic Research Centre,first Published July 2018 SOM is important and that poor rotations and lack of organic matter inputs might be something to do with their poor soil structure and static or declining yields. Organic farmers have always believed that SOM …
SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND ITS ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION Read More »
