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Fertile Minds – Technology Key to Future of UK Farming
At a high profile conference this week, Defra minister, Lord De Mauley, stated that young farmers’ grasp of new technology is the key to the future of farming in the UK. According to The Westmorland Gazette, 150 farm entrepreneurs from around the country attended the Fertile Minds event at Penrith where they heard the natural environmental minister tell them their ability to innovate was a ...
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Boom sprayers preferred by wheatsheaf farming – liquid fertiliser tanks at the ready!
As we approach growing season, the focus of attention in farming shifts towards fertiliser and Farmers Weekly explains how one farm believes that boom sprayers can boost fertilizer accuracy. The piece explains how disc spreaders have come a long way in recent years. However, they fail to provide the accuracy that some growers need and many are shifting to boom sprayers instead. This was ...
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Asteroid Soil Could Fertilise Farms in Space
OK, so we’re not quite ready to supply horizontal storage tanks and vertical storage tanks for farms in space just yet and we don’t think there will be a huge demand for rainwater tanks either, but an interesting article in New Scientist details how there is enough fertilizer zipping around in space to grow crops for generations of space colonisers and can be found on asteroids. It ...
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