Farm Tech

Farmers are being warned to up their security following a spate of tractor GPS thefts in the south west.

Performance-led nutrition and precision-made housing boosts efficiency for one Norfolk herd. Meanwhile, a new venture has found a more ‘ground-friendly’ way to transport feed and move pigs around on units. Jane Jordan reports.

BASF has announced their new 2020 innovation offer, inviting farmers to scan their cans to be in with a chance of winning a DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone with full training to Civil Aviation Authority standards.

The first cases of blowfly strike in 2020 have been reported in several locations in the UK via the Elanco Blowfly Strike Tracker.

Producers needs to consider alternative solutions to minimise non-essential farm visits and maintain high biosecurity levels while continuing to maximise bird performance.

North Yorkshire-based security firm Cubtech was launched just over a year ago after business owner Lee Turner moved to the village of Slingsby and learned from local farmers about the high level of rural crime the industry faces.

In these troubled times, when the UK is seeing a rise in rural crime, many farmers will be looking to update their security systems.

Wearable biosensors are being developed to help monitor the health of livestock, particularly dairy cows, with the aim of identifying the disease brucellosis at an earlier stage.

Pessl Instruments, the company behind METOS brand wireless, solar powered monitoring systems, has reported an upsurge in the number of remote monitoring stations requested around the world, due to the impact of Coronavirus and the need for farmers and agronomists to reduce unnecessary travel.

A progressive Suffolk farm is trialling the UK’s fastest growing agricultural weather station network service, to assess its benefits to the operation. David Williams reports.

Global AgTech company AgriWebb has announced the launch of its new farm management software into the UK to help farmers scale and advance their operations quickly. 

Equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and electrification technology, this “dream tractor” concept is a completely autonomous tractor that represents Kubota’s view of our farming future.