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One week on from the first week of trading since Easter and the latest AHDB Grain Market Report shows little change with grain and oilseed prices. Grain prices lost a little on the gains of the previous week. UK feed wheat futures (May-24) stand at £171.00/t. The Nov-24 contract also dipped slightly over the same period at 194.50/t but both …
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Changes to industrial hemp licensing will support regulated farmers to grow hemp and encourage investment in the industry, while continuing to protect the public from drug misuse. Hemp is a variety of cannabis containing less than 0.2% THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). It has a number of lawful purposes, for example in construction and textiles and could potentially impact climate change through carbon …
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Effective soil preparation will be vital to help this year’s maize crops get off to the best possible start. That is according to ProCam’s Simon Montgomery, who warns that the exceptionally wet winter could have done significant damage to land earmarked for maize. “After several months of waterlogged conditions soils will need a lot of work to get them into …
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The new Rotorscare is a simple but extremely effective bird deterrent claims Techneat Engineering. Using a unique split colour rotomoulded vane that spins, even in the lightest of breeze, the Rotorscare offers a cost-effective, long-term solution to all crop-feeding pests including pigeons and crows. Key features include a tough rotomoulded vane in proven colours to deter birds, a hard-wearing, low-friction …
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AGCO and Trimble have announced the completion of their joint venture known as PTx Trimble. It combines Trimble’s precision agriculture business and AGCO’s JCA Technologies to form a new company that will factory fit and retrofit precision technology to meet the needs of farmers. AGCO has acquired an 85% stake in PTx Trimble, and Trimble will hold a 15% stake. …
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Vertical Future, a UK-based vertical farming technology specialist, has been awarded a grant of £1.5m to adapt their controlled-environment-agriculture (CEA) systems for space. They will prototype them in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), implementing systems in the first commercial space station, which is being constructed by Axiom Space and due for orbit in 2026. Vertical Future’s proposal was selected by the …
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