The likely ban on glyphosate and other chemicals has steered this German manufacturer to look at some methods used by organic growers – and then improve on them At this year’s Agritechnica Michael Horsch, farmer and founder of the well-known German farm machinery company, introduced the concept of a dual or hybrid approach to crop …
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VIRKAR – IMPORTED BY SAMAGRI LTD Successful Spring Testing This article follows on from successful spring testing of the Virkar drill on our own farms, where we drilled a range of crops from spring oats, spring barley, maize, and sunflowers for environmental schemes. The results were very pleasing with great crop emergence due to the …
A Tale of Two Farms It’s been an “interesting” autumn here! It was always going to happen following the “goldilocks” near perfect summer and autumn of 2018. Mother nature was bound to maintain her average and the rain was going to come sooner or later. For us, that time was harvest. We got all our …
Written by James Warne of Soil First Farming In my article in the last edition of this humble magazine I discussed basic cover cropping strategy, in this article I willcover some of the frequent questions which have been posed to me since that article. I accept that to many this mayseem obvious but if you …
Sally owns the Bradshaws Estate in Codsall Staffordshire and talks about why conservation agriculture is her preferred route going forward. My father Peter Smith was a fruit and vegetable grower, farming 1500 acres on 6 farms in the Midlands and the Southeast. After the war, the revolution in farming when pesticides and manufactured fertilisers were …
NOVAG SHINE AT AGRITECHNICA For the second time in its history Novag had a stand at Agritechnica and put the spotlight on no-till and the importance of soil health. A visit to the stand at the show allowed you to meet the team and view the 3m drill, their 6m drill and their “fish tank” …
Four Prevented Planting Acre Priorities Heading into 2020Written By Emily Unglesbee , DTN Staff Reporter © Copyright 2019 DTN LLC In a year like 2019 you realise in the UK we always expect get our winter crops planted. Our temperate climate means this is nearly always the case. There will be talk of exceptionally wet …
Written by Steve Holloway from Soil Fertility Services Ltd A soil test will give you numbers and guidelines of where your soil is and hopefully where it should aim for to consider it ‘balanced’ (note I didn’t say healthy); remember that it’s NOT an N-P-K world. Sensible soil nutrition is the first step toward higher …
We will be showcasing all the latest technology from Precision Planting at Lamma show 7th/8th January on Stand 19.412.This will include the integration of downforce sensing, soil sensing and liquid control on our cereal disc openers as well as newretro fit options for all makes of drill + planter. We will also be revealing news …
VAXIO IS KEY MACHINE FOR SUMO British farm machinery manufacturer, Sumo, first launched the Vaxio at LAMMA 2018, and after 18 months of testing prototypes on-farm, the longawaited shallow cultivator went into full production in 2019. Available in 4m, 5m and 6m working widths, the Vaxio is a high-speed and versatile implement that combines surface …
