CropTec 2016 Exhibitor & Sponsor PR

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New equipment for the X40+ and X50+ Sulky spreader range to debut

SULKY UK will showcase two new options for its X40+ and X50+ fertiliser spreaders at CropTec: a remotely operated rolling cover which simplifies loading operations; and a hydraulically operated border deflector that gives added protection to field margins.
This latest equipment is available as optional extras to further enhance the performance of Sulky’s X40+ and X50+ spreader ranges, and make life easier for the operator.

The new hydraulically-operated rolling action cover can be deployed remotely from the tractor cab, simplifying loading operations which is particularly useful when working without assistance
The new border deflector supports spreading from the very edge of the field, with the flow shutter closed on the border side. The new deflector improves border-controlled spreading, and enhances Sulky’s TRIBORD 3D border device which allows remote changes to fertiliser rates when spreading up to and onto headlands.

Sulky has also improved the compatibility of its ISOBUS controlled equipment to include universal terminals from Case IH (AFS), New Holland Agriculture (Intelliview IV) and Trimble (CFX). All X40+ and X50+ spreaders are available with ISOBUS, so section control and rate adjustment functions will now be compatible with most existing terminals, improving efficiency and reducing the number of screens required in-cab.
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Single nozzle switching achieves accuracy

Knight Farm Machinery is introducing a new individual nozzle switching system that virtually eliminates the risk of over-application or misses when applying both crop protection products and liquid fertilizer.
The system combines Knight’s SPRAYER-Controller with a communication module and a series of pneumatic Muller EDS modules.

Each module controls four single, two double or one quadruple nozzle holder, and is capable of switching each of them on or off in sequence as they reach ‘over-lap’ or the field boundary.
The EDS modules are simply attached to the spray line along the boom and electronically connected in series. They are connected to the nozzle holders via a 6mm diameter airline.

When combined with GPS control and Knight’s Maximiser system, this will enable users to achieve total efficiency and accuracy when matching spray or fertiliser bouts, which will avoid over/under application and misses.

That will be beneficial from both business and environmental standpoints, says Knight’s David Main: “This system takes sprayer control onto the next level. It has the potential to pay for itself very rapidly by preventing over-lapping of sprays and fertilisers.
“With a conventional sprayer that switches off in three metre sections, the first five nozzles could over-apply to a significant area before the sixth one reaches a sprayed area and all six are switched off.
“That could waste significant quantities of product, particularly in long tapering fields. Switching off nozzles individually is much more accurate and less wasteful. In addition to potential product savings of 10% - 15%, overlap areas could be cut to less than one per cent”.
“Switching boom sections off too early risks leaving patches of un-sprayed crop. With weeds like Black-grass than can re-infest a crop from a very small plant population, that would be a very costly mistake”.
“Combined with Knight’s Maximiser system it will also guarantee applications are accurate and even right to the edge of the sprayer area at all times”.
He adds that the system could also improve environmental compliance by ensuring that it operates to the highest standards by eliminating over-application of chemicals and fertiliser on field margins and headlands.
The controllers fit neatly onto the spray boom, with the electronics being protected from chemicals themselves via non-return valves.


Knight Farm machinery will also be demonstrating the Knight Trailblazer steering axle trailed sprayer at this year's event, make sure to visit them on stand A14 to book your test drive.


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This will be an ideal opportunity for you to see a selection of the Proforge® equipment, including the best-selling Inverta short disc, Moledrainers, and Maxtilla tine cultivator. Proforge have held off from implementing any price increases until the 1st January 2017, so there is only a few more weeks to place your order at 2016's prices.

0% finance for 12 months is offered to help spread the payments, and you can order now at the 2016 prices for delivery any time up to June 2017.

We look forward to seeing you there. We will also exhibiting at the Midlands Machinery Show next week.

Kind Regards
Ben Whyles
Machinery Sales

 

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Grain storage and marketing Hub

The Grain Marketing and Storage Hub is designed to arm growers and their advisers with all the information they need to ensure that the grain and oilseeds they produce meet the needs of a highly competitive and increasingly discerning market place. That is equally important whether the crop is scheduled for export, the home market, milling or the animal feed chain which accounts for more than half of UK grain production. This Hub, which is new for CropTec 2016, will focus on grain and oilseeds markets and marketing options. It will also highlight some of the latest technology to help with grain store management, maintaining quality and preventing the risk of toxin and pest infestation; testing equipment, handling and weighing and, for those looking to expand their storage facilities, drying, conditioning and buildings.

Grain Storage and Marketing Hub speakers

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Spraying Technology Hub
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Sponsored by MagGrow and Supported by Crop Angel, NAAC and The Voluntary Initiative

Due to reduced availability of active ingredients and ongoing in spraying legislation, there has never been a more appropriate time for the industry to focus on crop protection products and their application.

After its successful launch in 2015 the spraying technology and advice area will once again return to CropTec 2016. The hub includes outdoor spraying demonstrations, commentaries and presentations how to avoid drift; new technology; approved stewardship schemes, safe and NRoSO knowledge trail.

CropTec will be able to provide a one-stop shop for delegates to find out about the solutions for successful spraying. All go a long way to helping safeguard the UK growers’ pesticide armoury and protecting their profitability.

New feature- a live feed from various points on sprayer demonstrations will be fed into screens in the hub

2016 Demonstrations & Discussions
MagGrow

MagGrow has developed a pioneering magnetic spraying technology system which utilises the fact that all living plants and soil have a magnetic field. The system reduces drift by 80% and delivers superior coverage.

1. MagGrow Harness and frame 3. Nozzle adaptor
2. MagGrow boom 4. Maximum unit weight

Crop Angel

Crop Angel offer a range of services utilising UAV (drone) technology

• Developing spraying with drones

The Voluntary Initiative

Introducing the latest stewardship campaign - OSR Herbicides? Think water
Patrick Goldsworthy, Water Quality Manager, The Voluntary Initiative

2016 Exhibitors in the Spraying Technology Hub

• Agrifac

• Horsch UK

• MagGrow

• Billericay Farm Services
• Catchment Sensitive Farming

• John Deere
• Kellands

• NAAC

• Chafer Machinery

• Knight Farm Machinery

• NSTS

• Challenger
• Crop Angel

• LEMKEN

• The Voluntary Initiative

• Crop Protection Association

• Lite-Trac

• Sentinel

By 26th November 2016 all mounted, trailed and self-propelled pesticide application equipment must hold a valid NSTS test. NSTS will be on hand to help and advise at CropTec.

 

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With only 5 days to go until we welcome you to this year's event, which is packed full of features, there couldn't be a more appropriate time to make sure CropTec is high on your list of things to do this month.

Following the UK’s decision to leave the EU and the shock Trump election result a few weeks ago, now’s the time to consider the prospects that lie ahead for the arable sector, put those in the context of your business and explore the latest technology designed to improve competitiveness. Boosting output and reducing unit production costs will be imperative for post-Brexit UK agriculture and CropTec’s technical exhibits and seminars are designed to help growers become even more competitive by providing professional advice.

Even better, it's all FREE providing you book your tickets in advance. ALL admission will be charged at £15 on the day.
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Seminar programme - including over 20 leading industry speakers
These seminars, in conjunction with CropTec’s specialist hubs and the wide array of technical exhibits from leading suppliers, provides the ideal catalyst for more detailed discussion to help visitors increase yield, improve efficiency and reduce the all-important unit costs of production.
Seminar programme

Exhibitors - our biggest show yet!

More than 140 leading suppliers of the latest technology, products, machines and services are on hand to discuss a wide range of developments across the arable sector.
A range of new products and services will also be on show at this year's event.

Exhibitor map


Business hub - speakers announced
The Business Hub provides an excellent opportunity for growers to reflect on their business performance and to discuss its cash-flow demands and investment opportunities with a range of financial and business advisers.


Business Hub

Black-grass taskforce
The Black-grass hub, sponsored by Bayer, addresses control of a weed that is threatening the future of UK wheat production. Bringing together all the latest thinking on black-grass control and giving visitors the opportunity to discuss in detail control strategies for reducing populations.

Blackgrass hub


Grain storeage & marketing
The grain marketing and storage hub, sponsored by Robinsons, is designed to help growers and their advisers with the information they need to ensure that the grain and oilseeds they produce meet the needs of a highly competitive and increasingly discerning market place.

Grain hub

Plan your 2017 spray programme
Spraying technology hub, sponsored by MagGrow, includes outdoor spraying demonstrations, commentaries and presentations on the latest buffer zone information from our exhibitors; how to avoid drift; approved stewardship schemes, safe disposal of washings and NRoSO knowledge trail.
Spraying technology

Our headline sponsor Adama is giving you the opportunity to win a Sumo front weight worth over £1,200 each day of the show, when you book a ticket to CropTec. You will be automatically entered into a free prize draw which will take place each day of the show.

Already received a free ticket in the post to CropTec? you MUST pre-register online using the discount code on the ticket.
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Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th November, 2016

CropTec Sponsors

ADAMA - Headline

Crop Establishment

Black-grass Hub

Crop Breeding

Crop Protection

Crop Establishment

Spraying Tech Hub

Grain Storage &
Marketing Hub

Crop Nutrition

 

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Just finished setting up our Stand 143 at Croptec
We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

 

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Join ADAMA for coffee and cake, come and meet the team, enjoy a conversation with our technical specialists, registration and account managers!







Discover...
...our multi-site Folpet family, safe-guarding
the future of current chemistry.

• Evaluation studies and results
• Virtual trials tour
• Maximising Septoria control and how to reduce the risk of resistance

Learn about...

• Adama’s comprehensive portfolio for spring cereals featuring on label recommendations
• SU resistance information
• Collect your FREE Spring Cropping Guide

Follow all the action on
Twitter at @AdamaUK_
and remember to tweet
your innovative selfies
with #Adamathermals

Find out...
How to get involved with:

• The Yield Enhancement Network programme and Adama sponsorship
• Adama’s development and split field trials
• Stewardship and WaterAware

PLUS...
Pick up a questionnaire and complete our
BASIS Knowledge Trail
to earn up to 2 points and one of our goody bags!





Not registered for your free entry yet?
CLICK HERE!

 

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Prolong fungicide efficacy by using multi-sites against Septoria



With SDHI resistance threatening to hamper the ability of these chemistries to effectively control Septoria, growers should protect winter-sown wheat crops with an early application of a folpet-based fungicide. That is the advice from Adama Agricultural Solutions, which will be using this year’s CropTec event to warn growers that unless adequate steps are taken to protect the current armoury of fungicides, the efficacy of these products will continue to diminish, with growers subsequently left with a limited choice of crop protection options.


Septoria resistance to SDHI fungicides has been well documented over the last 12 months, with growers and agronomists being warned that the efficacy of these products could become eroded.


“Growers need to be aware that unless they protect the ongoing efficacy of SDHI chemistries, they may reach a point when they can no longer rely on this technology to provide foolproof protection against Septoria,” advises Andy Bailey, Adama’s Cereals Fungicide Technical Specialist. “With no new modes of protection arriving in the short term, and increasing regulatory pressures threatening the restriction and/or removal of many active ingredients, we could be looking at a scarcity of effective crop protection products in future years.


“Growers therefore have a responsibility to protect and prolong the efficacy and lifespan of existing chemistries by utilising alternative modes of protection, namely multi-sites, to slow the rate of resistance.”


Mr Bailey also warns that growers need to reduce their reliance on azoles. “Azoles still provide some curative benefit, but they are no longer fully effective in this role,” he warns. “In fact, trials have shown that the preventative effect of azoles has reduced by 20% over the last 10 years, while their curative efficacy has fallen by a huge 60% or more.”


In order to limit the effects of disease resistance, Mr Bailey advises growers to use a three-way stack of SDHI, azole and multi-site chemistries. “Stacking chemicals is recognised as the most efficient and effective method of crop protection,” he explains. “But it is important to ensure that the multi-site chemistry doesn’t impact on triazole uptake. To get the best results, a multi-site active, such as folpet, should be applied prior to stem extension at T0 and again at T1 to protect the newly emerged leaf 3. If disease pressures remain high, folpet can also be applied at T2 to combat fresh and spreading infections.”


Folpet-based products such as Arizona (straight folpet at 500 g/l) and Manitoba (folpet at 375 g/l plus epoxiconazole at 50 g/l) provide three stages of biochemical protection and are therefore less susceptible to resistant mutations. “They are more robust and as such are vital to prolong the role of azoles and SDHIs,” Andy continues. “New research even indicates that using folpet-based products such as Arizona can counteract the effects of selection pressure thereby making subsequent Septoria infections more sensitive to epoxiconazole.


“Folpet also aids green leaf retention, particularly when applied at T1, with this translating to the potential for improved yield benefits when compared to crops treated with chlorothalonil.”


Products such as Arizona and Manitoba provide an effective anti-resistance effect for the control of Septoria and also give good protection against other key cereal diseases including Yellow Rust. “Using these products early in the season reduces selection pressure and gives broad spectrum, flexible disease control in cereal crops. They can be used as standalone products or as mix partners for straight SDHI’s to provide a full ‘belt and braces’ approach to cereal crop protection,” Mr Bailey concludes.


Adama’s technical experts will also be on hand throughout CropTec to discuss the company’s recommendations for oilseed rape canopy management and to recommend suitable herbicide options for spring-sown cereals.



Visitors to the Adama stand will also be able to earn up to two BASIS points by completing a crop protection knowledge trail. For more information, or to find out more about Adama’s folpet-based fungicides, go to www.adama.com/uk

 

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A short video overview of day one .