Written by Keith Diedrick, Area Agronomist at Corteva USA Summary • Soil testing is a useful and relatively inexpensive management tool for growers to assess crop nutrient levels in their fields. • Proper methods and timing of soil sampling help ensure reliability of test results for making informed decisions related to soil inputs such as …
The future to understanding soil health lies in a tool that can sniff the gases produced by the soil’s microbial life. You can’t optimise what you can’t measure, and the vital activities of microbial life in the soil are currently difficult to measure outside of a specialised academic laboratory. P.E.S. Technologies is therefore using cutting …
Written by Shaun Downman from Afftinity Water I’m sure you are all fully aware that this autumn has been wet! However, thinking back to September things were very different. Where I live on the Hertfordshire/Cambridgeshire border, I can pinpoint the day the dry weather ended. I had willingly brought my spade along to a field …
At Agritechnica Väderstad presented an entirely new and unique technology in the form of the SeedEye seed counter for their seed drills. Farmers can now easily set the number of seeds per square metre without needing to perform calibration tests. SeedEye provides additional functionality for Väderstad’s established control system E-Control. SeedEye: 1. The operator sets …
Well its been quite an autumn since I wrote my last article, most of it spent looking out of the window to see if it had stopped raining. We received 315mm of rain between the 23rd of September and the end of November. A huge amount of rain but in some ways we have been …
Evolution or revolution? Two AHDB Monitor Farmers (Richard Payne and Hew Willett) tell their story of theirjourney to direct drilling, with an introduction from Harry Henderson, AHDB There was once a time when establishing a cereal crop was a straightforward standard process. Bale or burn the straw, subsoil if necessary, plough press, power harrow, and …
AHDB Knowledge Exchange Manager, Teresa Meadows paid a visit to the New Zealand Foundation of ArableResearch to understand how they are tackling key agricultural challenges faced by UK farmers. Soil health, improving soil structure, wider environmental concerns and high-quality yields are certainly at the front of New Zealand arable farmers minds, as they are ours. …
CHALLENGING AUTUMN UNDERLINES THE NEED FOR A CROP ESTABLISHMENT SYSTEM TO COPE WITH ANY CONDITIONS The extreme wet weather this autumn underlined the importance of operating a system which can cope with all conditions, of soils being in optimum condition, minimising weather risk and having sufficient capacity to take advantage of weather windows, says direct …
Written by DENISE ATTAWAY, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA Healthy crops begin with healthy soil and researchers with the Clemson University’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program are teaching farmers how they can benefit from keeping their soils fit. The researchers teamed up with other agricultural professionals and farmers who have implemented soil health …
Farmers Learn The Science Of Soil Health At Clemson Conference Read More »
Agritechnica, as always, is the place to see everything that farming has to offer from around the world. You come across stands way bigger than anything you would see other shows and yet you have never even heard of the brand as they don’t sell in the UK or Europe yet as they “haven’t seen …
