The Benefits of Intercropping
Intercrop trials show yield gains
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Farm Trial Results
Optimising Protein Within an Integrated Arable and Poultry System
Home-grown protein for laying hens
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Drones for Spraying Pesticides—Opportunities and Challenges
Erdal Ozkan; Professor and Extension State Specialist—Pesticide Application Technology; Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering; The Ohio State University Direct Driller Note – this is the most comprehensive guide to different types of drone spraying and although is written in the US, they are also significantly ahead of the UK in terms of adoption
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More Farmers Are Adopting John Deere’s See & Spray in the USA. Here’s Why…
John Deere See & Spray uses AI machine learning and computer vision to identify weeds during each pass precisely. Early adopters in the US of See & Spray say they’ve increased savings, reduced herbicides and reached ROI faster than expected. Which is rare in the ag tech sector. Farmers know spraying applications can vary from
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What makes RL trials tick?
AHDB is demystifying the Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) by bringing the processes that underpin them to life. Jason Pole, AHDB Technical Content Manager, explains. With a focus on the RL protocols, our winter wheat on trial initiative is revealing how we decide which varieties to sow and recommend – and everything in
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New living mulches guide to help boost soil health and farm resilience
Farmers looking to enhance soil health, increase resilience, and improve sustainability now have a powerful resource at their fingertips. The newly released Agricology Living Mulches Technical Guide provides clear, practical advice on implementing living mulch strategies that deliver tangible benefits across farms of all sizes. Living mulches are semi-permanent legume understories sown beneath cereal crops
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Pasture for life growing on many fronts
Pasture for Life, which champions the restorative power of grazing animals, continues to go from strength to strength with ambitious targets of hitting 5,000 members farming one million hectares by 2029. Last year saw 208 events delivered and 93 farmers trained as grazing mentors helping 166 mentees. There was activity across England, Scotland and Wales,
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Turning the Tide: How Digital Intelligence Can Help British Farmers Break the ‘Perma-Crisis’
Let’s be honest — there’s hardly a farmer in Britain today who doesn’t feel like they’re paddling upstream. Whether it’s arable, livestock, dairy, or horticulture, the pressures are coming thick and fast. Soaring input costs, labour shortages, unforeseen legislative changes, wild swings in the weather, and post-Brexit market uncertainty are combining into something many are
Parsnip Pioneers: the world’s first autonomously grown parsnip crop
Huntapac’s parsnip crop, grown without human machinery operation, used Skippy Scout drone monitoring operated by Agrii’s technical experts in the world’s first instance of entirely autonomous vegetable agronomy and production. Huntapac, in collaboration with Autonomous Agri Solutions, AutoSpray Systems and Agrii, funded by the Marks and Spencer Plan A Accelerator Fund, successfully grew a crop
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