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Step or Incremental Change: A Strategic Decision

When many people think about technology in farming, they envisage the big step changes such as the complete move from manual pickingto robotic picking. Or big tractors to little robots. And these changes have happened before in farming. But more often, technological change has been incremental, giving a small benefit over previous actions. Understanding the …

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A Revolution in Bio-Positive Agriculture

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, farmers and agricultural professionals are always looking for innovative solutions that build better soil resilience and improve crop health whilst striving to lower their fertiliser inputs and their environmental impact. ActiV8-Bio, a unique biological product designed by SFS, is one solution that sparks curiosity and gains significant traction with a …

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Living up to the SFI and its actions

The SFI offers financial payments to those who adopt variable rate applications, but demonstrating compliance is more than a tick-box exercise, explains Rhiza product manager Ben Foster The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) has much to offer growers from payments for environmental actions, to incentives that improve sustainability, productivity and, importantly, business resilience. With 102 actions …

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Using Farm Tech to Maximise and Manage the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) Opportunity

With harvest wrapping up and the new farming season underway, many farmers are turning their attention to implementing sustainability practices through the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), which is set to become integral to many farm’s businesses. As the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) phases out, the SFI provides a valuable opportunity to support farm incomes while …

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In pursuit of pixel perfect

Although artificial intelligence can help achieve wondrous things, it’s only as good as the information it’s learnt from. Tech Farmer looks at how synthetic imagery could take green-on-green precision to new levels. Written by Lucy de la Pasture Although per plant farming may have suffered a setback with the loss of the Small Robot Company, …

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Agronomist in Focus – Simon Francis

New ‘boots-on-the-ground’ precision farming service A new service makes the benefits of precision farming accessible without growers having to master all its complexities, says ProCam’s UK Technical and Services Manager, Simon Francis. Using satellite mapping of soil and crop variability across fields, the new FieldSense service derives tailored variable rate input applications to improve economic …

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We can benefit from innovation

Our production systems must become more resilient in order to combine productivity, climate protection and biodiversity. How can this be achieved, what role does digitalisation play, and where are the new opportunities? We pose these and other questions to Hubertus Paetow, President of DLG in Germany. The advancing climate change, increasing loss of biodiversity, the …

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