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Download PDF A major new digital farming product, launched next spring, offers growers a precise and targeted approach to crop production. CPM travels to Scotland to see how it fits in with one of the pre-launch pilot farmers. This move to digital is important for farming – we need to get it right. By Tom Allen-Stevens Dave Bell’s phone buzzes, and he confidently rejects the call. It’s been a busy 24 hours – 20mm of rain the evening before provided the ideal conditions to lift some of his early potato crop, then the cattle were sorted that very morning, and cereal harvest is due to get underway at any moment. So is he wise to ignore what could be a crucial phone call? “I like to strength test my business,” he explains. “I should have the space and the time to be able to step back and take a wider perspective whenever the opportunity arises, do some blue-sky thinking, rather than be caught up in the day-to-day activity.” Based at Colinsburgh in Fife, E Scotland, Fairfield Farms comprises 1200ha with a fully integrated mix of enterprises in what Dave calls a “full cycle system”. Predominantly, there’s a beef suckler herd…
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