Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The 6m Australian-inspired seeder was drafted in to replace a 3m Mzuri Pro-Til, which itself had taken over from the Essex farm’s conventional plough, cultivation, power harrow and […] The post Direct drills revisited: 6m Sly/Horizon Boss appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Far Eastern Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From ploughs to power harrows, flat cultivators and seed drills, Pöttinger has presented many interesting and innovative new products and features 1. New SERVO 2000: The SERVO 2000 ploughs are available with 3 to 4 furrows, as well as various underbeam clearances and point-to-point spacings.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

From ploughs to seed drills to crop care machines, arable farming specialist Pöttinger, has a colourful bouquet of innovations lined up for the new season

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

But will the current trend away from ploughing towards direct drilling and the accompanying use of glyphosate bring the benefits advocates claim, or could this make matters even worse? Richard Young follows on from his article, Speed the plough or the direct drill and sprayer?

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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The vehicle has been designed for a wide range of applications in the agricultural field, including wine vineyards, with its six independent drive motors and a standard three-point hitch allowing it plough, haul and carry out a broad variety of other tasks. For more information, visit: [link]

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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The vehicle has been designed for a wide range of applications in the agricultural field, including wine vineyards, with its six independent drive motors and a standard three-point hitch allowing it plough, haul and carry out a broad variety of other tasks. For more information, visit: [link]

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Agritech NZ

JUNE 28, 2023

This precedes an immersion trip later in the month, coinciding with the Irish National Ploughing Championships and World Agritech Innovation Summit in London. At the same time, there will be another cohort of New Zealand agritech interests attending the FIRA USA autonomous farming and robotics event in California.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly For the past eight years a direct drill was the only piece of equipment Wiltshire mixed arable and beef farmer George Hosier has used to establish his arable crops.

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Farmers Weekly Implementing regenerative agriculture principles across 14,000ha is a central component of Dyson Farming’s long-term circular farming model, as it produces high-quality food with minimal environmental impact.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Next spring there will be swallows winging their way back across continents to feast on insects that live with cattle that graze on pasture that has never been ploughed. To Catherine and her many supporters there is far more at stake than a few bruised egos and the furthering of careers.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 27, 2023

Farmers Weekly The Yorkshire farming family behind the successful Wold Top Brewery and Yorkshire’s first single-malt whisky distillery is using the latest precision mapping technology in its drive towards a low-carbon, sustainable future.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Farmers Weekly At a Farmers Weekly Transition project farm walk in Suffolk, Claydon Drill demonstrated how low-disturbance systems can boost soil health and improve margins. Claydon’s 360ha Gaines Hall arable farm and equipment manufacturing site, near Newmarket, has improved dramatically since moving to low-tillage operations in the early 2000s.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Doing no-till while using [glyphosate] is not going to regenerate the planet,” says Whitlow, who points to the spectrum of regenerative farmers, some who prefer not to plough but still spray herbicides.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

America’s recent history with farming in the Midwest sees a change from horse-and-ploughs to tractors during the 1930s and 40s – especially after World War 2. During the 1980s, more farms were shuttered and many destroyed – buildings torn down and ploughed under for bigger farms to plant even more acres.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Instead, deep ploughing to create intensive cropland tore up the native grass cover, leaving soils exposed and friable. The disaster , which left over 500,000 Americans homeless, intensified the Great Depression and devastated the region’s ecology.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To delve deeper into soil health, we recommend this article by Richard Young, ‘ More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate ‘ The post Ten things you should know about soil first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust. Image available here under a Creative Commons license.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. When they discovered that the farm is set on a prehistoric lake bed, a natural water reservoir for the community, they felt an additional responsibility to plant native trees and shrubs to steward the water resource.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

If all the money put into food technology right now were instead ploughed into regenerative agriculture, investors would be “heroes for the planet,” adds Terry at GoodSam. There are “strong indications” that regenerative agriculture soils and crops are much more resilient vis-à-vis extreme weather events, he explains.

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