Grass YEN has been running for three seasons, from 2018 to 2020, involving over 25 UK farmers. It has demonstrated that the UK has an ideal environment for achieving very high grass yields of more than 20 to 25 tonnes of dry matter per hectare each season. However, UK growers…
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A new KRM Bredal tractor mounted fertiliser spreader is to be introduced for the 2021 season, featuring ISObus control for automatic setting of application rate and spread width up to 40m and with Section Control for accuracy in irregular shaped fields. Unusual feature of the new Bredal F4W spreader is…
Women in Food and Agriculture will be rounding off the year with a Digital Festival from the 8th to 9th December 2020. This online global event will address how to make a measurable positive impact on gender diversity in food and agriculture, while also inspiring attendees to transform our industry…
Thousands of UK dairy farmers will have to track all their calves – including bull calves – for the first eight weeks of life from January. But there is no easy way to do this without rearing them on-farm; until now. Opening up access to new markets and streamlining data…
John Deere agricultural and turf dealership in the South West of England Masons Kings is adding value to its own and customers’ businesses through the introduction of the company’s latest Precision Ag and Connected Support technology. This technology, which brings real benefits to agricultural customers, provides industry leading data collection…
Remote access specialist Solar Gate Systems says that improvements in solar panel technology have created opportunities to install gate automation on any gate up to 7m wide, in any location. “We have the technology to successfully automate any existing gate, in any outdoor location,” explains Mike Yeats, md of Oxfordshire-based…
There was a big drop in the oilseed rape acreage this year, 28 per cent less than initial government estimates. However, one start-up company picked this up early and flagged the issue to its clients. That start-up was Mantle Labs, a leading remote sensing analytics company, which has developed a…
Kentra, the Yorkshire-based manufacturer of mixed flow grain dryers, is introducing two new moisture measurement and recording systems for growers, and an automated moisture monitoring installation for mills and commercial grain stores. The high-accuracy products come from Canadian manufacturer Dryer Master, whose DM510 control system fully automates the grain drying…
Because it is not possible to physically visit agricultural machinery trade fairs until after the spring, agricultural machinery manufacturer Pöttinger is going to launch its new products for the 2020/2021 financial year directly into its customers’ and fans’ living rooms and offices. Pöttinger’s virtual trade fair officially opens on 18…
The new Topcon XD (7”) and XD+ (12.1”) touchscreens, which are available in Great Britain via LH Agro, are compatible with the full range of Topcon crop health monitoring sensors, auto section controllers, auto-steer and headland turn functions, yield monitors, variable rate application controllers, Norac boom height controllers and Topcon’s…