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• Gene provides yield stability during drought
MONSANTO and BASF scientists have unveiled the discovery that a naturally occurring gene can help corn plants combat drought conditions and confer yield stability during periods of inadequate water supplies.
• Virtual World - July 2009
As I left the Suffolk Show this year I was handed a copy of our sensational local evening paper which proclaimed that this year’s event had provided a massive boost to the county’s economy. Personally, I don’t see it that way . . .
• Bye Engineering celebrates 30 years in business
ON MAY 1st, 1979, after completing a five-year apprenticeship and working for Melton Engineering (now Thurlow Nunn Standen) and a spell in the workshop at Blomvyle Hall, Hacheston, Trevor Bye and his wife Margaret started Bye Engineering – just a man ...
• Roundhouse building secures more awards
THE innovative Roundhouse livestock building, from Barnard Castle-based Roundhouse Building Solutions Ltd (RBSL), part of the Simpson and Allinson Group, is going from strength to strength . . .
• Fertiliser treatment gives crops a boost
IF YOU take the fertiliser recommendations in RB209 for granted you could be missing a trick, according to Tim Kerr, of Carlisle-based Carrs Fertilisers.
• New Dorset dealer for McCormick
A DORSET agricultural engineer is preparing for a boost to his business after winning the franchise for one of Britain’s leading tractor suppliers.
• Global search launched to find the oldest shears
LISTER Shearing Equipment has launched a global search to find the oldest Lister shears – working or otherwise!
• Know your onion solas
WITHOUT the current range of specific off-label approvals (solas) now available for onions, UK growers would not be in a position to grow this crop, according to specialist agronomist Andy Richardson.
• Points to Ponder - July 2009
EACH time we walk or drive down our local high streets, we can see with our own eyes the closed and closing-down signs on shops.
• Power on the Land: Lubricants and Fuels
THE fact that diesel prices appear to be on the way up again is not good news for the farming industry, but there is better news from some of the developments in tractor and machinery lubrication.
• British ploughing returns to the Cambridgeshire fens
BRITAIN’S top ploughmen will congregate in Cambridgeshire in October when the 2009 British National Ploughing Championships returns to Soham.
• Innovative contractor's Unimog helps control costs
FARMING and agricultural contracting demands detailed cost control and forward planning, and one of the country’s most innovative operators has introduced a Mercedes-Benz Unimog to maximise productivity and minimise costs.
• Versatile cultivator proves its worth
A BESPOKE version of Sumo’s Trio cultivator has proved itself in just one season for Warwickshire potato and arable grower David Boyes.
• Variety Views: News from the Cereals Event - July 2009
HAVING spent two days demonstrating cereals and oilseed rape varieties on the HGCA stand at this year’s Cereals Event, and having a quick sprint around the rest of the site, here is a round-up of the main points I gleaned.
• YFC Update - July 2009
Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon are the three tallest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales respectively. Climbing just one would be a considerable challenge, so to tackle all three within 24 hours would be a real YFC-style show off to hikers ...
• New trailed diet feeders from Harry West
A NEW range of vertical trailed diet feeders from Seko has been launched in the UK and Ireland by Harry West (Prees) Ltd.
• SDF growth will be powered by the East of England
IT WAS hard to find anybody downbeat at this year’s Cereals Event, but one of the few stands that was screaming confidence was Same Deutz-Fahr (SDF).
• Grain & Fertiliser Gossip - July 2009
After the recent performances of the British and Irish Lions, and England, against Argentina, no doubt many of you will be expecting me to make some rugby comments. Well of course I will!
• Buyers out in force for fenland farm dispersal
THERE was no shortage of bidders when auctioneers Cheffins dispersed Ray Benstead’s farm machinery at Red Tile Farm, Warboys, Cambridgeshire, on May 13th.
• Farmers Guide Inventive Farmer Competition 2009
JUDGING for the 2009 Farmers Guide Inventive Farmer Competition took place at the Suffolk Show on May 27.
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