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Download PDF A move towards regenerative agriculture has already delivered carbon savings for a Cambs farm. CPM visits to find out how autonomous robots are set to take this to the next level. Surely a better way is to treat each plant individually, keep it healthy and give each one the resources it needs? By Tom Allen-Stevens Tom Pearson carefully extracts one soya plant from the clutches of his bone-dry Hanslope series chalky boulder clay. Although established well into a standing cover crop, it’s now visibly struggling with the prolonged lack of moisture and beset by pigeons. But Tom doesn’t seem too upset. “What excites me about the journey we’re on is the prospect of per-plant farming,” he says. “It’s like the land’s on crack at the moment – we’re feeding our crops artificial inputs to drive production, while surely a better way is to treat each plant individually, keep it healthy and give each one the resources it needs?” Based at Manor Farm, Caxton, near Cambridge, Tom farms 480ha in a family partnership and for the past five years has been taking it on a steady transition into regenerative agriculture. Soya is one of a number of spring-sown additions…
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