Kubota (UK) Ltd’s announcement to supply Topcon auto-steer options for its M-series tractors has brought with it two free upgrades through its partnership with UK-supplier LH Agro Customers ordering any LH Agro-supplied Topcon auto-steering kit through their Kubota dealer can take advantage of free Headland Turns activation worth £625, along…
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With soil moisture levels high this summer, arable growers must use good quality slug pellets, applied accurately, to control burgeoning slug populations That is the advice from ADAMA’s molluscicides technical specialist, Andy Bailey, who also explains that spreading equipment must be properly calibrated to ensure accurate pellet application. “The wet…
Maschio Gaspardo has launched its flagship twin-disc Primo fertiliser spreader, following the eagerly anticipated new product range featured at this year’s Cereals Event Part of a line-up which includes machines with working widths from 12m to 36m and hopper capacities from 1270-litres to 4450-litres, the range-topping Primo EW Isotronic has…
A cutting-edge new digital forecasting tool to maximise planning and profitability for soft fruit growers will launch to market in 2024 thanks to £2.8m capital raised from private investors, Ceres Agritech and Innovate UK through its investor partnership programme FruitCast, which has been trialled on leading soft fruit farms in…
An adaptive and education-based approach to regenerative farming can enhance soil carbon cycling with the potential to rapidly increase farm productivity, says Tom Dillon, director of Regenerate Outcomes “Using soil tests from Eurofins Agro UK, we are partnering with farms to help enable a regenerative system change, based on extensive…
Deere & Company has announced it has selected a location in Kernersville, North Carolina, for the construction of a 115,000-square-foot manufacturing facility The factory will expand production capacity of Kreisel Electric (“Kreisel”) products. Kreisel, which John Deere acquired majority ownership of in 2022, produces innovative battery technology for e-mobility and…
KRM Ltd of Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire will be demonstrating a new powered Strip Till Cultivator for the first time at the Tillage Live event With up to 70% of the soil surface remaining untouched, cover crops or a grass sward can be left in place and the surface can be…
Rodent damage to machinery is often not covered by insurance and can be hugely costly to farms in both repairs and downtime Protecting storage and machines from rodents should be part of every farm’s post-harvest rodent control strategy, as pest control specialist David Reece from LODI explains: “Baiting both inside…
Origin Fertilisers has become an ambassador for The Green Tractor Scheme to support the farming industry to dispose of plastic waste in the most efficient and sustainable way Founded in 2020, The Green Tractor Scheme’s goal is to ensure all agricultural plastic waste is recycled by 2030. It plans to…
John Deere Operations Center users can now update field data across their entire machinery fleet in real time DataSync has been introduced to eradicate the time taken to manually change records on each in-cab display – usually done via a USB stick – and ensure that stored field data is accurate.…