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Agronomist and Arable Farmer August 19th

Weetabix stays local

Weetabix is today celebrating that once again it is able to meet its commitment to sourcing every grain of its Weetabix wheat from within 50 miles of its factory in Burton Latimer.  Following this summer’s temperamental weather conditions, there were worries amongst farmers about a restricted crop growth and a repeat of last year’s disappointing harvest. Thanks to the tireless work of farmers in Weetabix’s Growers Group based in …
Weetabix stays local

Improve your harvest quality and lower your operating costs with New Holland Combines

Improve your harvest quality and lower your operating costs with New Holland Combines

Agri-Tech Hackathon aims to kick-start safety innovations for autonomous agricultural vehicles

This September, Agri-EPI Centre, in partnership with the world renowned Hands Free Farm, are running a virtual Hackathon event to address the safety and security challenges of autonomous vehicles and drones in agriculture.  Hands Free Future  While the advancement of autonomous farm vehicles offers new economic and environmental benefits, their future growth also presents the new challenge of ensuring unmanned …
Agri-Tech Hackathon aims to kick-start safety innovations for autonomous agricultural vehicles

Oilseed rape still brings black gold

Very pleasing yield results have been achieved from all varieties of oilseed rape, both conventional and hybrids grown at H.H. Craske and Son, Michael Craske’s Hadleigh-based farm in Suffolk. This year’s crop included two conventionals - Acacia, Aardvark and hybrid Aurelia.  Mr Craske has always grown conventionals and was originally sceptical about growing oilseed rape hybrids, but last year 50% of …
Oilseed rape still brings black gold

AgriBriefing sells UK agriculture division to Arc

AgriBriefing, provider of agricultural commodity pricing benchmarks, analytics, and market data, announces today that it has sold its UK agriculture division to Arc. The information assets which will transfer include Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer & Arable Farming alongside all related digital platforms plus events brands LAMMA, CropTec and the British Farming Awards. Arc is a global events, data and media …
AgriBriefing sells UK agriculture division to Arc
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The NORMAC Demonstration 2021

The Norfolk Farm Machinery Club have always been well known for staging practical demonstrations of farm machinery, right from its inception, 75 years ago. These days, with the importance of conserving our soils, cultivation machinery have very much come to the fore, and we have staged a Cultivation Demonstration every two years now for a number of years. Covid restrictions …
The NORMAC Demonstration 2021

Crop trial shows benefits and challenges of growing ancient wheat varieties

Long-lost wheat varieties can offer a good alternative to modern wheat on low input farms, but lodging can be a challenge, crop trials in Pembrokeshire have shown. Only 9% of farmland in Wales is currently used for arable production and most of this is used for growing modern grains. But farro grains including Emmer and Einkorn and other varieties that …
Crop trial shows benefits and challenges of growing ancient wheat varieties

OSR shows remarkable power of recovery

A poor start hid the true potential of oilseed rape conventional variety Aspire, which came back in time to pip other hybrid varieties for yield, reports Tom Jewers, of Woodhall Farm, Rattlesden, Suffolk. “It yielded half a tonne more than any other variety on the farm and based on this we will be using Aspire to replace our previous mainstays …
OSR shows remarkable power of recovery

Water Companies fund cover crop study to help farmers refine nitrogen use and protect water quality

Two leading water companies in the UK; Affinity Water and Portsmouth Water are funding an innovative study to understand the rotational and environmental impacts of nitrogen captured by autumn/winter cover crops. The Nitrogen release from Cover Crops (NiCCs) project, being delivered by ADAS, will focus on the effect that cover crop species choice and different destruction methods have on nitrogen release into the following …
Water Companies fund cover crop study to help farmers refine nitrogen use and protect water quality

Agronomist & Arable Farmer August 2021

The August 2021 issue is now available online! with exciting news about the launch of the National Arable and Grassland Awards News: National Arable and Grassland Awards launched News: integrate tools on black-grass management Awards: arable and grassland awards launched News analysis: basis update soil and water qualification News analysis: five reasons to choose barley Opinion: agronomy on the beach …
Agronomist & Arable Farmer August 2021
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