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Agronomist and Arable Farmer November 9th
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Significant upgrades to Corteva Agriscience’s Kerb Weather Data tool will help growers and advisers be even more precise when timing oilseed rape herbicide applications this winter. The data is relied upon by growers across the UK to identify the best time to apply AstroKerb® or Kerb® Flo 500, which typically takes place from early November. The weather data’s simple traffic …
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The Agricultural Industries Confederation’s Agribusiness Conference on 17th November 2021 will reflect on some of the themes and challenges posed at COP26, as the agri-supply industry looks at how it will meet ambitions net zero targets, while continuing to supply high quality and sustainable inputs to farms and the food supply chain. Agribusiness conference sessions will focus on the theme …
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The November 2021 issue is now available online! News: Pepsico funds oat growers for leaf membership News: poor soil is ‘security threat’ News: new sprout control available News Analysis: farming on a large scale with Velcourt News Analysis: government warned over elms Opinion: mists and mellow fruitfulness Grain Handling: bespoke grain drying system to futureproof succesion Agronomy Matters: stripper header …
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Leading farming education organisation, LEAF Education has recorded its highest levels of engagement to date, with a five-fold increase in the number of young people it has worked with over the past year – according to its latest Impacts Report. In the last academic year, LEAF Education has directly engaged with 74,044 students (aged 4 – 18 years), across 63,000 hours …
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Arable Chat is back with a brand-new episode which sees two inspirational arable farmers join us to talk about sustainability and the future of the arable farming industry. In light of the COP26 conference this month Matt Waldie, fourth generation farmer and manager of Gilston Mains in Fife, Scotland talks about his experience supplying and growing oats for Quaker Oats, …
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The shortage, and price increase, of nitrogen fertilisers can be mitigated by a more thorough understanding of soil fertility and plant available nutrients. This is according to soil testing specialist, Eurofins Agro UK, which has seen a rise in soil tests during 2021. “Farmers and growers can use new, more advanced, soil tests to better understand nutrient levels at the …
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An ever-challenging farming agenda encompassing questions around sustainability and profitability, in a climate of rising input costs and the drive to manage carbon are all hot topics for the UK’s arable farmers. As a business, Hutchinsons has been investing heavily in developing services and technologies to allow growers to work towards these goals, all of which have been trialled, tested …
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Arable Chat is back with a brand-new episode which sees two inspirational arable farmers join us to talk about sustainability and the future of the arable farming industry. In light of the COP26 conference this month Matt Waldie, fourth generation farmer and manager of Gilston Mains in Fife, Scotland talks about his experience supplying and growing oats for Quaker Oats, …
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Visitors to the Life Scientific stand at Croptec can enter a free tombola - so come along and try your hand at grabbing one of the lucky tickets to win any number of prizes from golf umbrellas, insulated lunch bags, torches and Wonder wipes. Fun aside, Croptec is the first time that the industry will hear about two exciting new …
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