Tagged: variable rate
Dorset iFarm Recipe defies the season to deliver Best-Ever Spring Barley
January 19, 2021
Despite the most challenging conditions they’ve ever known for the crop, Eastbury Estates averaged a record 9.3t/ha from the 100ha of spring barley they grew at Tarrant Gunville near Blandford in Dorset last season, maintaining the substantial productivity progress the… Read more
Tagged # Dorset, eastbury estates, gpr, jim, jim farquharson, Rhiza, Spring Barley, todd jex, variable rate, VR Nitrogen, yield
Technology on trial – Game Changing Technology
July 29, 2020
A change in arable machinery can often expose variable farm performance where none was recognised before. CPM finds out how growers are using on-farm trials to get a greater understanding. More and more growers are using precision farming technologies to… Read more
Tagged # DTF, fertilise, N, nitrogen, r seed, Rhiza, trila, variable rate, VR N, VR Seed
Nailing the Digital Benefits in Essex
June 1, 2020
Just because you have the ability to vary inputs doesn’t mean you should. A.S. Clark and Son, based at Langley Lawn Farm near Saffron Walden in Essex, has used precision farming technology since 2010. But Sam Fordham, responsible for precision… Read more
Tagged # ADAS, Digital, DTF, essex farm, Farm data, farm digital technology farm, input, NVDI, PGR, Rhiza, sam fordham, technology, variable rate, VR, VR applicaiton
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
Harnessing Digital Technologies For The Future In Staffordshire
March 9, 2020
At Field Hall Farm, Field on the southern edge of Uttoxeter, Rob Atkin considers himself a precision farming novice. But the more he works with them the more convinced he is that digital technologies will be crucial in a future… Read more
Tagged # Digital Technology Farms, DTF, farm technology, field hall farm, nigel francis, optimisation, Precision, Rhiza, Rob Atkin, staffordshire, variable rate, VR applicaiton, VR Nitrogen
Digital Technology Farms Network Launch
March 6, 2020
Farm Network Launched To Prove And Improve Digital Agronomy Technologies A pioneering UK network of Digital Technology Farms has been established this season to prove the value of current digital agronomy and data-based information systems, demonstrate their most profitable use,… Read more
Tagged # ADAS, Bedfordia, Bedfordia Farms, CENSUS, Digital Technology Farm, DTF, Jim Rennie, Lucy Cottingham, Precision Farming, precision technology, Rhiza, trials, variable rate, VR applicaiton, VR Nutrition
Building on a Traditional Recipe with Innovation in Fife
December 20, 2019
At first sight Lacesston at Gateside near Cupar is a traditional North east Fife family farm. Potatoes and spring barley are its mainstays, with soft wheat grown for distilling and oats for Quaker. All its sandy loam arable ground is… Read more
Tagged # agronomist, barley, conservation, cover crop, donald hay, john weir, liming, oats, potatoes, precision agriculture, Precision Farming, precision growing, rtk precision, scotland, soil care, soil health, sustainable agriculture, variable rate, winner