- Visit crop production specialists Hutchinsons at the 2023 Highland Show
Today’s farmers are facing a barrage of challenges from market instability, rising costs, changes to farm support and increasingly extreme weather events, and looking for ways to navigate businesses through these whilst building profit and remaining sustainable has never been more important.
Visitors to the Hutchinsons stand at the Highland Show will have the opportunity to discuss how their leading range of services, technologies and agronomic advice can help to build more resilient profitable farming systems.
Soil health is widely recognised as a cornerstone of sustainable farming systems. However, it is key to understand your soil before making any significant structural or operational changes.
Hutchinsons revolutionary soil scanning system, TerraMap provides the most accurate and repeatable soil mapping available. Now this can be aligned with the most comprehensive soil analysis to give an unrivalled soil nutritional and management service, TerraMap Gold.
The Omnia Digital Farming platform has continued to evolve and develop offering a range of innovative new tools using farm data, such as Terramap, Carbon mapping Cost of Production and Yield Performance mapping.
If looking to make decisions about next season’s rotations and costing out potential scenario’s, then Omnia’s Business Performance Planning tool allows users to do just this using real time farm bespoke farm data.
Omnia also now provides a management platform to complete all of the SFI Soil standard requirements in a functional and easy way, allowing you to improve your soil health and gain your SFI Soils Standard payment.
To ensure it remains up-to-date as scheme requirements change, further updates are already planned to accommodate the wider release of other SFI measures in the future, such as the Advanced Standard due in 2024.
Have questions around Agroecology? Hutchinsons are leading the way in trialling and testing agroecological farming practices on a farm scale level through the Helix Agroecology farm. Two years into the project, there are many learnings about how these may be adopted onto your farm in a practical but also profitable and sustainable way.
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