Soil

What started as an escape during the Covid lockdown has snowballed into a popular veg box scheme at one Welsh farm.

Machinery agnostics platform, DataBaler, enables data insights and machinery applications to become accessible to farmers through one integrated system.

Andrew Maddever and his family farm 2,000ha of heavy clay arable land through a mix of owned, tenanted and contract farming arrangements, near Bury St Edmunds.

Expanding from the original one-hectare plot to a 35-hectare autonomous farm is just one of the developments the Hands Free farm has achieved over the past six years

A network of connected weather stations is being rolled out across the UK to help growers and agronomists make crop management decisions.

New packaging for Nemathorin nematicide granules has been created to enable clean and efficient operation during potato planting.

There is ‘huge opportunity’ to optimise wheat production to aim for the bottom end of greenhouse gas emissions, attendees at the AHDB Agronomists’ Conference heard. 

Farmers and agronomists will face reduced crop protection product choices and increased costs due to the withdrawal of parallel import licenses following the UK’s departure from the European Economic Area (EEA), according to Clayton Crop Protection.

The benefits to both crop and animal of an old grazing technique are being trialled for a second year at an arable farm in the Scottish Borders.

The area of spring cropping in 2023 is likely to be down on previous years given favourable conditions for autumn drilling, however it remains an important option for many farms particularly in the North.