Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Many farmers are looking to install wind turbines to power glamping sites, according to UK manufacturer FuturEnergy, which has launched the first remote-controlled micro wind turbine.

Suzuki has recently released three new market-leading ATVs – the KingQuad 750 power steering and KingQuad 500 power steering/non-power steering models.

Continued investment in pulses has seen two new additions to the 2020-21 PGRO Recommended List from breeders Limagrain UK.

A new range of Landini four-wheel-drive tractors, equipped with large diameter row crop wheels for maximum crop clearance, will be launched at Lamma ’20.

Seven highland cows have been given a new home on a Lancashire nature reserve, where they can live out the rest of their days helping to improve grassland for wildlife.

Leading agricultural manufacturer Claas is predicting a moderate rise in sales and stable income in 2020 despite the uncertain market environment.

In East Anglia, the establishment of healthy rape crops in order to withstand flea beetle damage is of paramount importance and growers’ investment in a sustainable and effective slug control strategy has been critical.

Integrated pest management, or IPM, is nothing new but it’s critical that farmers can demonstrate how and when they are using it, delegates were told in the opening address at December’s AHDB Agronomists’ Conference. Dominic Kilburn writes.

Controlling the UK’s number one wheat disease of Septoria; the loss of multi-site fungicide chlorothalonil; having fewer fungicide active ingredients in general; and control of yellow rust.

Where drilling of winter wheat has been delayed, the crop nutrition strategy should be adapted to help recover the lost yield potential.

Landquip is using LAMMA 2020 to unveil new products from both its Crop Sprayers business and its new Terra Solutions arm, which focuses on both import and UK manufacturing at Landquip’s Suffolk factory of cultivation equipment.

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