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For a large farming business in Scotland, a firm focus on efficiency is ensuring the best use of new technology. CPM finds out how on-farm trials are feeding into this approach. When they bring out something new, you know it’ll be worth looking at. By Tom Allen-Stevens Tucked into the north-east corner of Scotland, near Turriff in Aberdeenshire, in a micro-climate that favours winter cereals, Sandy Norrie admits he’s been “seriously lucky” this year. “We got winter cereals established here when others in Scotland couldn’t, and while the land varies in its fertility, it’s very common that we achieve wheat yields in excess of the magical 10t/ha,” he says. It’s not necessarily the yield he’s after, however, and by all accounts, luck has little to do with how Sandy, as arable manager of AJ Duncan Farms, achieves the results. With 2430ha of cereals and oilseeds, the business aims to deliver sustainable, efficient food production from field to fork. At its heart lies an egg-production enterprise with 600,000 laying birds, making the farm one of Scotland’s leading producers. All of the wheat and feed barley, making up the majority of the arable crops, is channelled towards the enterprise, and intense…
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