Tagged: farming
Making Sustainability Work on the North Hampshire Down
March 3, 2021
Net Zero is already a reality at Faccombe Estates on the Hampshire-Berkshire border near Newbury, with their comprehensive 2020 Farm Carbon Calculator report showing a net sequestration of over 1800 tonnes CO2/year. But director Al Brooks and his team are… Read more
Tagged # agriculture, Agrii, agronomy, Faccombe Estates, farming, Linseed, livestock, min-till, net zero, Newbury, nutrition, plough, sheep, spring crops, Sustainability
Agrii and University of Warwick sign agreement to bring UK beans to market
February 9, 2021
Agrii and the University of Warwick’s research commercialisation wing, Warwick Innovations, have signed a contract to promote the commercial production of UK haricot beans developed by scientists at the University of Warwick. Professor Eric Holub, from Warwick’s Crop Centre, part… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, baked beans, beans, black bean, blond bean, british grown, capulet, Dr Suzanna Wood, farming, godiva, haricot beans, olivia bean, Professor Eric Holub, university of Warwick, Warwick Innovations, white bean. british beans
Putting Sound Science into Bio-Solutions
February 5, 2021
Alongside soil health enhancers, genetic advances, digital tools and better-tailored nutrition and chemistry, bio-solutions have an important part to play in a future increasingly less reliant on conventional crop protection inputs. This is clear from in-depth Agrii research into a… Read more
Tagged # bacteria, barley, bio-pesticides, bio-solutions, biological crop protection, biosolutions in farming, crop performance, farming, fungi, OSR, PGR
Fallacy of ‘income foregone’ payments for new ELMS revealed
October 5, 2020
Basing new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) payments on the age-old income foregone formula is unnecessary and will fail to deliver the desired public goods, warns a leading agricultural policy adviser. “Other than lack of imagination and ambition, there is… Read more
Tagged # BPS, DEFRA, ELMS, Environment, farmers, farming, Land, payment, scheme
Overcoming Precision Frustration in Lincolnshire
May 4, 2020
Alongside getting to grips with black-grass, understanding cover crops and improving soil structure and health across the 1200 ha of cropping at Revesby Estate near Horncastle, manager Peter Cartwright and Agrii agronomist, Richard Butler have been employing a range of… Read more
Tagged # applicaiton, Dightal Farming, Digital Technology Farm, farming, nutrition, Precision, revesby estate, Rhiza, variable rate, VR
Seeing The Digital Wood For The Trees In Bedfordshire
April 18, 2020
Employing autosteer for the past 18 years, yield mapping since 2004, starting on variable rate seeding 12 years ago and being one of the first in the country to use the most advanced satelllite imagery, Bedfordia Farms have more experience… Read more
Tagged # Bedfordia, bedfordshire, Digital, Digital Technology Farm, DTF, farm, farming, Precision, vaiable, VR
Covid-19: RHIZA Service Offer
March 24, 2020
In these challenging times, we are committed to supporting our industry and communities. We’ve taken measures to maintain our support and supply, while protecting the health and wellbeing of our customers, employees, and their families. We also want to make… Read more
Tagged # coronavirus, covid-19, digital tools, farming, Rhiza
Specialist Spring Beans Add Agronomic and Marketing Value in Yorkshire
January 20, 2020
Spring feed beans on a specialist contract for the Waitrose Farming Partnership are adding to the agronomic and marketing flexibility that are Velcourt manager, Rob Yardley’s keys to minimising risk across Hartley Farming’s 1020ha of arable cropping at Birkin near… Read more
Tagged # Agrii MasterSeed, Agrii seed, beans, cover crops, drill, farming, grassweed control, Hartley, haylage, knotitnghly, plough, spring beans, tiffany, vaderstad rapid, Väderstad., Waitrose
Talking Agronomy with Jo Bell – November/December
October 26, 2019
As we move rapidly towards the end of the year, it’s time to get our winter cereals in on high black-grass risk ground. The rain has been a godsend in giving us just the flush of weed growth we have… Read more
Tagged # agronomy, BYDV, crop protection, crops, farming, seed dressing, soil, wheat, winter cereals
Using agricultural land as a flood defence – An ecosystem service that farmers should be paid for
January 31, 2014
The Single Farm Payment has been recently under scrutiny from governing bodies establishing its value to those who are paying for it, the taxpayer. Today (29th January) the BBC ran an article stating farmers should be urged and even obliged… Read more
Tagged # Agrii, Environmental Support, farmers, farming, flooding, irrigation, single farm payment