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Erosion degrades soil quality and is a major reason for farmland loss in the world. Understanding soil erosion causes and its mechanisms will slow down field destruction. Its effects can be quite severe, but prevention and reduction measures, as well as early problem detection, will mitigate the...

Talk on Twitter and the farming press of the return of BPS at £80/acre!

Photo: John Deere Yield monitoring technology held the largest precision farming market share in 2021. According to MarketsandMarkets, yield monitoring technology will continue to be the biggest contributor to the growth of the precision ag market, which is expected to grow to USD 15.6 billion...

Patchwork Blackbox 510 Advance Advert added by: @R123 Machinery Details Category: GPS and Farm Electronics GPS and Precision Farming equipment Price: £450 Condition: Used Description Patchwork Blackbox 510 Advance GPS Guidance system & mapping, can be unlocked for section...

Farming is the oldest activity known to humans. Since ancient times, farmers have grown crops and raised animals to produce food o sustain their lives. Farming has rapidly become one of the most important sectors which provide food to all human beings. Over the centuries, with continuous global...

With eight billion people currently existing on our planet and a population predicted to continue to grow into the future, we no longer have the luxury of unlimited, untapped natural resources. Therefore sustainability, or the idea of maintaining the resources we do have so we have them in the...

From digital imagery to novel planting configurations, the HELIOS trials run by leading agronomy firm Hutchinsons are raising the bar for apple orchard management ... The 10-year project may still be in its infancy, but it is already revealing some interesting results that could influence future...

Written by cpm from CPM Magazine Download PDF Making the most of organic manures could have more significance this year than ever, so having the right muck spreader for the job should help operations run smoothly. CPM rounds up some of the models on the market. An even feed to the rotors is...

I suspect many farm businesses will be in the same position as us in not really knowing how the Government support for electricity prices will work.We have a business meter which provides electric to both the house and farm buildings and the Government energy cap is for domestic households so I...

Written by cpm from CPM Magazine Download PDF Making the most of organic manures could have more significance this year than ever, so having the right muck spreader for the job should help operations run smoothly. CPM rounds up some of the models on the market. An even feed to the rotors is...

Chemical and Agricultural Services ltd and H L Hutchinsons are holding a soil health open day, the topics we will be covering include. How to improve the health of your soils Information on the SFI standards Protecting soil with cover and catch crops Making the most of nitrogen use Variable...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland Farmers are showing increased interest in machinery and equipment that will help them to farm more sustainably and lower their costs of production according to business advisers at the Midlands Machinery Show. With soaring costs looking like they’re...

Powerful Role of Drones in Agriculture By Ines Hajdu | AgTech, Blog While aiming to produce enough food and remain sustainable, agriculture is facing significant changes. In the new agricultural era, farmers are able to use various high-tech sensing devices based on GPS, variable rate...

By Tanja Folnović Sensors are a modern agricultural technology, developed to help farmers obtain faster and better results, assisting in the determination of various soil characteristics. They can be used to measure in real-time thus controlling the variable rate application. It can also be used...

Agriculture is changing. Developments in positioning systems, aerial technologies, and large scale data collection, with a promise of vast potential, are infiltrating into agricultural sectors. In this generation, technology development is expected to result in the greatest step-change we will...

Seed rate calculation, and the need to move away from ‘drill by weight’ is more important than ever this season and there are several reasons for this, reports Dick Neale... “Working out the correct seed rate is important for several reasons; soils are variable so more difficult soils must have...

Drip Irrigation: The Most Efficient Irrigation System By AGRIVI Water use in food production is a growing problem in the face of climate change and a rising global population. Water is an increasingly scarce global resource, and agriculture is the biggest consumer of our planet’s finite water...

Precision Farming: Everything You Need to Know By AGRIVI Precision farming is revolutionizing agriculture. So much so that most industry pundits consider the advance of precision agriculture as fundamentally disruptive to sustainable agriculture and food production as was the invention of the...

A recent project has refined a process that allows nitrate ‘waste’ from groundwater treatment to be captured for use in agriculture as a liquid fertiliser. The NTPlus project, financed by Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund, was led by Agua DB Ltd, in partnership with Carbon Data...

This is a thread for those who feel guilty about cluttering up dear old GUTH’s beloved price tracker with the chit chat that stop us all being that miserable our families would throw us all out to sit with the dog in the porch. All are welcome, you can even post prices if you want. The only rule...