Written by Joe Stanley from the Allerton Project It’s well established, including by our own research (in part discussed in June’s article on our pioneering Conservation Agriculture trial), that a move to reduced tillage or direct drilling (DD) can generally be considered beneficial for the triumvirate of farm economics, soil health and environmental sustainability. With …
SPX Strip-Till Cultivator and PPX Planter Will Coward is a farmer and contractor from Wiltshire, maize planting makes up around 750 acres of the contracting business alongside umbilical slurry spreading and baling being the bulk of the contracting operation. The farming side of the business centres around a 360 head of Aberdeen Angus suckler herd. …
As growers grapple for grassweed solutions, Direct Driller looks at the results from the first year of on-farm trials investigating a novel way of controlling weed seeds at harvest. Written by Charlotte Cunningham Grassweeds are the bane of any arable farmer’s life, with control often an uphill battle when it comes to tackling particularly persistent …
On-farm trials make progress towards weed seed solutions Read More »
As anyone that has operated a combine will know, the worst part of the job is the daily cleaning to prevent pockets of chaff building up around the engine bay and eventually getting too hot. It’s a dusty and time-consuming job to get all the hard-to-reach areas where chaff can accumulate. However, an innovative AirSense …
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In the first week of August a range of farmers and industry professionals met at Moor Farm in south west Wales tohear the 2022 Runner-up to the Soil Farmer of the Year competition, Andrew Rees, explain how he has developed adairy system with soil health at the centre. Moor farm is a 160 hectare grassland …
Farm Walk – Farm Walk With 2022 Soil Farmer Of The Year Runner-up Andrew Rees Read More »
