Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm
Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
Written by William Kellett from Agriland
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a man who was fined £2,400 and ordered to pay £1,500 costs and a £48 victims’ surcharge at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court.
Martin Ward, 52, of Crannard Gardens, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland...
Potato growers target clean finish to season as blight pressure resurfaces
Mixed weather patterns across many regions in the UK and Ireland is leading to localised outbreaks of late blight in potatoes.
Main crop varieties are closing in on the burndown phase but much of the planted area...
Flexibility and peace of mind as mixed weather hits UK potato growers
Zorvec® is playing an important role in north-west England where ProCam County Crops Agronomist John Cairns looks after in excess of 250ha of potatoes.
For one particular farmer, John says that the longevity of protection...
Changing weather pattern puts potato growers on high alert for blight
Rain showers and warming temperatures have heightened the threat of potato blight with Hutton Criteria disease warnings declared across many of the UK’s key growing regions.
The Blightwatch alert system, hosted by AHDB...
Controlling tall weeds and potato volunteers in sugar beet
Sugar beet has now been planted and is starting to grow away. This year the crop is showing a wide range of growth stages from 4 to 5 leaves to emerging plants at cotyledon stage. Sugar beet remains an important crop in the UK...
Blog: Why I wouldnât be taking my foot off the pedal when it comes to potato blight
After twice the average monthly rainfall in February, there is some irony that much of the country needed rain by the middle of April.
But we should not forget how well the 2019 potato crop went in without the...
Revolutionary late blight potato fungicide launched in co-formulation
A revolutionary co-formulated fungicide for the prevention of late blight in UK and Irish potato crops will be available for farmers to use during the 2020 growing season.
Zorvec Endavia® is a liquid combining...
Growers urged to plan for heightened potato blight threat
Farmers are facing challenging conditions in which to control late blight after Hutton Criteria disease warnings were declared in key potato-growing areas.
A large percentage of the UK crop is at the critical rapid canopy growth...
Changing weather conditions heaps blight pressure on potato growers
Farmers are facing challenging conditions in which to control late blight after Hutton Criteria disease warnings were declared in key potato-growing areas.
A large percentage of the UK crop is at the critical rapid canopy...
Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm
Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
Featured Solution - Data Diagnostic Insights - The Rise of the Digital Farm
Five years ago, when people started talking about Digital Farming and Big Data, most were not sure what this was or how it related to field base crop production. Since then, writes Keith Norman, the speed of technical...
Horrible thread title to start, ridiculous really, totally unnecessary; but Putin has done it... it seems crazy. :(
I think we - Nato / the West / Democracies - should arm and finance Ukraine. I think we should have a zero tolerance of infringement of NATO airspace and territory.
And I think...
Would you like to :
Save fuel.
Reduce the number of cultivation passes.
Reduce your reliance on weather.
Make harvesting easier.
Increase planting rate.
Make management easier.
We are achieving this on our own fields and I would like share it but would like to get some monetary reward from...
One of the major components in precision agriculture is crop health monitoring, which includes irrigation, fertilization, pesticide sprays, and timely harvest of the crop. Further, the progressive change in growth and development is critical in crop monitoring and taking suitable decisions to...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/incredibly-upsetting-welsh-fury-as-farm-to-be-re-wilded-with-thousands-of-conifer-trees/ar-AASmbKk?ocid=msedgntp
After reading this article I looked at the 148 comments.
1 says carbon credits are wrong.
Approx 3 mention shortage of land to grow food...
Toward Comprehensive Plant Microbiome Research
Authors: Kari Saikkonen, Riitta Nissinen and Marjo Helander
Microbes have driven eco-evolutionary adaptations organizing biodiversity from the origin of life. They are ubiquitous and abundant, facilitating the biochemical processes that make Earth...
We hear all the Time of farmers using less insecticides, and for good reason generally, but I do wonder if the real bad apple is modern fungicides.
Amazing how many are now farming without insecticides after years of addiction, can we start to cut our reliance on fungicides too?
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