The UK Pesticide Guide is the key authoritative reference for advisors, growers, contractors, local authorities and many others managing the impact of pests and diseases. Updated for 2019, this essential reference for all pesticide products and adjuvants approved for use in agriculture, amenity, forestry and horticulture, includes eight completely new…
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A network of weather stations could give real-time support to decision-making on UK farms, according to Sencrop, a leading European digital start-up business with a new base in Cambridge. Sencrop’s wireless network technology uses innovative weather stations on individual farms. These gather a range of local agri-environmental data including air…
Case IH and Farmers Edge, a Canadian-based agri-tech company focused on data-driven agricultural decision-support systems, announced today that they have entered into a strategic digital agriculture agreement that will make available a portfolio of connectivity and agronomic solutions to Case IH customers. Through this agreement, Case IH will provide customers…
A pocket-sized piece of ‘rugged’ technology, described by its makers as ‘much more than a smart phone’, is making its mark with farmers across the UK. In addition to being shock, water and dustproof, reducing the need for frequent and costly repair or replacement, the flagship Cat phone, the Cat…
Farmers are now able to access all their precision farming needs in one place – regardless of the brands in their machinery fleet – following the introduction of Trimble’s Vantage network in the UK. The new network will give customers a one-stop shop for all their precision farming requirements –…
Chafer trailed sprayers will be on show at LAMMA with the following upgrades: The boom suspension assembly now offers improved contour following, allowing it to run closer to the ground (below 50cm) on even the largest diameter wheels. The sliding frame is equipped with an additional set of rollers and…
Simplistic measures of soil health can be extremely misleading. Every one of today’s commercially available soil health tests has its limitations. And even if all the most sophisticated and costly one-off biological analyses were to be applied they would provide little or no reliable comparative soil health information. This is…
Agriculture is undergoing a technology revolution supported by policy-makers around the world. While smart technologies will play an important role in achieving improved productivity and greater eco-efficiency, critics have suggested that consideration of the social impacts is being side-lined. In a new journal article Dr David Rose and Dr Jason…
Bateman Sprayers have chosen LAMMA 19 to introduce new developments to their range of sprayer tanks.
University of Birmingham experts have worked with one of the world’s biggest railway rolling stock companies to develop the first-ever shipping container using materials that store and release cold energy. Using phase change material (PCM), Birmingham scientists and their counterparts at CRRC Shijiazhuang, in China, have developed a ‘refrigerated’ truck-to-train…