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Manufactured in Co Mayo, the heartbeat of machinery engineering in the west, we recently got our hands on a Major Cyclone rotary mower. With the prolonged spell of dry weather, farmers all over the country have been very busy draining and reclaiming land. Often such land may have a layering of rushes or scrub. With Major claiming to offer a machine with similar capabilities to a mulcher, but with ...
Western Dairy’s latest independent pasture trials and demonstrations are bigger than ever and helping inform the seed choices of Western Australia’s dairy farmers. The WA Seed Performance Trial (WASP), Grazing Management Demonstration ‘Goldilocks Grazing’ and the Seed Mix Trial all offer independent analysis of pasture varieties and management techniques tailored ...
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 ...
The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) started the Propane Farm Incentive Program (PFIP) as a way to repay producers for helping the organization document the performance of propane technologies used on the farm. ...
In the early days of California winemaking, as in parts of France and Spain today, all wine was dry-farmed. At the famed 1976 Judgment of Paris wine-tasting, which showed the world that California wines could meet or surpass French wines, some of the Napa Valley samples were dry-farmed, meaning they received no water beyond the ...
Although we’ve written a great deal about the extremely wet weather lately and how farmers can exploit this free resource through the installation of rainwater harvesting tanks, according to Herald Scotland, farmers in the west of Scotland have experienced a spate of dry weather that they have used to their advantage. Recent dry weather has allowed farmers to get their spring crops sown ...