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Kent-based vertical farm, Growup Farms, played host to member of the Lords Horticultural Sector Committee, who visited to find out about how vertical farming could influence the industry in the future...
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Lincolnshire farmer Andrew Ward has produced a successful crop of British baked beans. With the help of Warwick University, the variety Capulet was developed to cope with the British climate, after the crop failed last season the 13 acre field delivered a good crop this...
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With Integrated Pest Management (IPM) planning now a paid action under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), a free IPM Planning Tool has been developed by ADAS, NFU, SRUC and Voluntary Initiative (VI) to help farmers create crop specific IPM management plans. Built to complement VI’s existing IPM Plan, the new tool covers all the main arable and outdoor horticultural crops. It …
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Septoria resilience was a key factor in winter wheat performance last season. That is the message from Syngenta seeds marketing manager, Kathryn Hamlen, who says arable crops were subjected to multiple pressures during 2023 – including persistent rain during spring which fuelled a Septoria tritici epidemic, a hot and dry June, then a wet summer that caused a stop-start harvest…
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A new electric tractor designed for use in vineyards, orchards and greenhouses is to be launched by Fendt. The battery powered e107 V Vario benefits from Fendt’s Vario transmission and the FendtONE operating system…
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John Deere and Yara have announced a partnership that will help farmers contribute to the transition to a more sustainable food system. Combining Yara’s agronomic expertise and John Deere’s precision technology and advanced machinery, the new partnership will help farmers increase yields and optimise their use of fertilisers...
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A lightbulb moment in 2019 for Wiltshire-based tenant farmer Fraser Bush whilst ploughing, changed the way he farmed as he realised that bullying his soil with steel machinery was destroying his natural seedbed…
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