arable News
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CEREAL The Arable Event 2015 – See Enduramaxx Water Tanks and Sprayers
Once again, Cereals The Arable Event is approaching. This year’s Cereals take place over 10th and 11th June at The Old Rocket Site, Heath Lane, Boothby Graffoe, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire. LN5 0AS. Just like last year, Enduramaxx will be meeting some of the 26,000 plus visitors who visit the event to see crop plots, machinery, working demos, machinery awards, technical seminars, ...
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Round 2 of the Countryside Productivity Grant
Round 2 of the Countryside Productivity Small Grants scheme is now open to all farm types including dairy, livestock, horticulture and arable, with a total of £15 million available. The grant is to help British farmers improve productivity through upgrades to their equipment and the ADF System is eligible. So don’t miss out! Invest in equipment to improve the productivity of your ...
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Cereals: The Arable Event – Enduramaxx Sprayers
Enduramaxx has confirmed that it will be exhibiting a range of sprayers, including ATV Sprayers, at this year’s Cereal: The Arable Event. The exhibition takes place over the 11th and 12th June at Grishall Grange, near Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Cereal is the leading technical event for the UK arable industry. 500 leading suppliers join Enduramaxx to display products and promote services to ...
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Tenth of China`s farmland contaminated
A tenth of China's farmland is contaminated with fertiliser, polluted water and heavy metals, threatening the country's food supply, official Chinese sources have said. As much as 12.3m hectares of farmland are affected by pollution from liquid and solid waste, some of which makes its way into the food supply, China's official news agency Xinhua reported. The statistics, sourced from the ...
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UK Farmers Urged to Prepare For Spring – Fertiliser Storage Tanks At Hand
We’d echo the advice of one of the UK’s leading fertiliser suppliers, as reported by Farming UK, and that is to be prepared for spring fertiliser applications. Because we had a very early harvest this year, good conditions in autumn and favourable weather ever since, most arable crops are well ahead and looking good going into winter, according to Allison Grundy, Arable Agronomist ...
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European Farms Growing Slowly but Surely
There are around 14 million farmers in the European Union, and the average size of farms is just 14 hectares. By comparison, the USA has just 2 million farmers, yet the average size of farms is 180 hectares. Just under 50 percent of the EU’s surface area is covered by fields, 30 percent by forests and 20 percent by something other, such as cities. Family farms are traditional in Europe, ...
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Do agri-environmental policies support mixed farming systems?
The Large Scale Grazing Systems (LSGS) of the EU are governed by legislation at regional, national and European levels. New research investigates an LSGS in Spain and suggests that the area's traditional mix of sheep and cereal farming needs improved, better co-ordinated regulatory support to survive. LSGSs are large areas of countryside used for grazing in the EU, characterised by cultural ...
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FARM 2000 appear in farmers weekly 1st june 2018 edition
Robin Blatchford, a beef and arable farmer on the Dorset-Wiltshire border has been using a Farm 2000 boiler to dry his grain for several years. Whether you use wood or straw as fuel the economic and environmental benefits can out weigh the costs of a fossil fuel system. Robin discusses how he went about installing a grain drying system heated by Farm 2000 biomass as well as some of the ...
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Emissions from Crops POST note 486 issued by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology issued "Emissions from Crops" a POST note (486) on 20th January 2015. Agriculture contributes 9% of the UK's greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions burden and 10-12&% globally. Although there is a long-term declining trend from UK agriculture, the sector may account for a larger share of overall emissions in the future as other sectors reduce ...
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Countdown to Cereal 2014 – See Our Sprayers and Speak to our Staff
It’s not long now until this years Cereal event; the leading technical event for the UK arable industry, taking place over the 11th and 12th June this year. We’ll be exhibiting our range of sprayers, water storage tanks and horizontal transport tanks and visitors will have the opportunity to inspect products and quiz us on our broader range of water tanks. Taking place at Grishall ...
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This Year’s Cereal a Success – All About Sprayers
This year’s Cereal Arable Event was a very ‘sprayer orientated’ event this year and welcomed teams of farmers to Grishall Grange, Cambridgeshire, who came to see over 40 exhibitors demonstrating the latest developments in the specialist sprays and sprayers feature at the event. This included 50 of the latest self-propelled, mounted and trailed machines, all within a dedicated ...
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Winner of our Cereal Event Skid Mount Sprayer Prize
This year’s CEREAL event was great! Attracting some 26,000 visitors who flocked to see the latest arable-orientated products and services from 500 suppliers, the Enduramaxx range of sprayers and plastic water tanks were a big hit too! Particularly popular was our prize draw to win an Enduramaxx 300 litre skid-mounted sprayer and boom. These units are ideal for saturated fields or areas ...
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CAP reform and crop diversity can be springboard for growth
Linking CAP payments to crop diversity represents a growth opportunity for farmers, according to anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist EnviTec Biogas UK. Under the new rules, 30 per cent of direct payments will depend on demonstrating environmentally-friendly farming practices – including crop diversification. Full details are yet to emerge, but “greening” the CAP is likely to ...
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Do agri-environmental schemes benefit insect pollinators?
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) do successfully enhance the number and variety of insect pollinators, research suggests. They are particularly effective when implemented in arable landscapes which also contain some semi-natural habitat. AES were introduced in Europe in the early 1990s in response to declining farmland biodiversity. However, evaluations of their efficacy for biodiversity ...
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Computer model helps with early prediction of mycotoxins in grain
Increased mycotoxin contamination Climate change will likely result in increased contamination of grain with mycotoxins (toxins from fungi). Early prediction of the growth of these fungi can help farmers make effective choices regarding the use of fungicides, the best harvest time and other aspects. This strategy can reduce the risk of crop failure and help to prevent contamination of food and ...
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Northern Ireland Farming Crisis Warnings
As detailed in the Belfast Telegraph, the Ulster Farmers Union (UFU) president, Ian Marshall warns that the industry is on its knees and that changes need to happen in order to avoid disaster. The problems range from very low milk prices, through to beef, lamb, and arable farmers now gearing up to take their protest to the streets. Mr Marshall claims that the industry is facing the worst ...
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Saudi Arabia captured by Dacom irrigation management system
In Saudi Arabia drastic measures are needed to reduce the water usage by the agricultural sector. The Ministry of Agriculture has set itself the task to decrease the water consumption from 17 to 5 billion mᶟ. Since 2010, the Ministry of Agriculture has dedicated Dacom to a project to monitor the soil moisture at various arable farmers throughout Saudi Arabia. To this, Dacom advices both the ...
By Dacom
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Added bonus for grass weed control
Certis' straight flufenacet herbicides, Sunfire and System 50 have been granted an Extension Authorisation for Minor Use (EAMU) on Rye and Triticale, for the control of black-grass and annual meadow grass. Already widely used in barley and wheat crops, and showing good control of black-grass and other significant grass weeds, this comes as a welcome addition for growers of Rye and Triticale as ...
By Certis UK
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Engage Agro Europe to attend the Elsom’s Seed Days
Engage Agro Europe will be attending the Elsom’s seed days for the first time in 2016. The seed days are now an essential part of the vegetable calendar and are held this year on the 12th and 13th of October 2016. The seed days cover an extensive range of vegetable and arable plots available to view, featuring new and novel introductions with specialist technical advice available on both ...
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Independent variety trials show productivity of wheat varieties continues to increase
Nowhere in the world is the average grain yield as high as in the Netherlands, where it is over ten tonnes per hectare. Research by Wageningen UR shows that the introduction of new varieties has caused yields to increase by approximately 8 to 10 per cent per decade. Converted to a hectare of winter wheat, this represents an increase of 800 to 1,000 kilograms; a huge achievement for breeders of ...
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