Horticultural farmers and growers in England – apply for an FETF grant today
Written by Ben Keene
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With the deadline fast approaching, I want to encourage horticulture growers and farmers in England – and contractors to them – to consider applying for a grant offered through...
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Smart technology in agriculture is progressing at a rate of knots with new innovations promising to optimise workflow, streamline processes and utilise every ounce of data available. CPM digs into some of these unfolding technologies.
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Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group has launched its nematodirus forecast with the aim of helping producers deal with variation in disease risk this spring.
The group said the forecast will be “really important” to help...
Anyone else being forecast heavy snow next Wednesday, nearly 2 foot forecast for us in south Shropshire with very cold weather after as well hope they are wrong but yr, xc, bbc all predicting the same. @METJEFFUK @Simon Keeling any input?
Sorry if this is elsewhere.
Over here in (historically) sunny Essex we have a long term average of 495 mm.
We had 662mm in 2021 making it a wet year, 432 in 2022 making it a dry year.
This year we have been 'lucky' to receive 808mm which is a cool 163% of normal.
How about some of you...
The last few years we have had a pretty massive drop-off in our turbines. Installed 2012 and normally in the 90000kw but last few years a drop of and this year the worse. They a serviced yearly by a well respected company and 2 had magnets repotted on etc. In central scotland.
Maybe a longshot...
Would like a good but cheap £30-£40 wireless weather station with one external sensor showing temperature and humidity on it. My Ferdinand International Marketing Ltd C-8105 has died.
My weather station stopped transmitting so got lifted up the pole in the man cradle and 3 new batteries sorted the problem:)
No response at all from our old slurry covered scraper tractor last week in spite of charging it. Does a stupid livestock farmer get a mechanic or a new battery at...
Starting to get a little worried now. Spring seed might be short... Weather doesnt look great on the forcast - given how sh!t harvest was, could we be in for just as bad an autumn?
As some here may know I moved my family to France 4 years and 18 days ago. We settled on central France and rented a lovely 143ha beef farm with a bit of arable, modern and traditional buildings and a recently renovated traditional house. It was a calculated risk that has paid off. In fact we...
According to the Met Office:
“While the UK has always had periods of warm weather, what climate change does is increase the frequency and intensity of these warm weather events, increasing the likelihood of high temperature records being broken, like we saw for 2022’s annual temperature for...
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has lost five of its eight founding signatories. The seven insurance company members have departed including Allianz and AXA.
Mark Carney is getting a little dose of reality today, or nature as us farmers call it
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