As a farm’s environmental credentials become as important as the food it produces, an independent tech new entrant is seeking a solution for farmers to quantify and demonstrate their efforts in promoting natural capital. Alice Dyer reports.
As featured in Arable Farming Magazine Investing in robotics for broad-acre crops by Arable Farming Suffolk-based Home Farm Nacton has purchased one of the UK’s first commercially-sold robot tractors, primarily for working in conventional and organic vegetable crops. Martin Rickatson saw it in action. A broad range of cropping [...]
As featured in Arable Farming Magazine April 2021 Developing skills to suit a new farming system by Arable Farming Autonomous farming systems will require new skills just as much as they need new tools, suggest the researchers at Hands Free Farm, the innovative autonomous farming project being run by Harper Adams [...]
David Cairns, agronomist at MSP has started using Skippy Scout to find rust faster.
Plant metabolism has a multi-layered approach to defence with primary and secondary metabolism - Unium have researched these key pathways to provide the best support for the plant with SCYON without utilising growth / yield robbing resources from the plant.
Farm weather station specialist Sencrop has announced an upgrade to its popular mobile app, allowing customers to use their preferred weather forecast service from within the app itself.
As featured in Arable Farming Magazine March 2021 Ag robotics take the spotlight at virtual event by Arable Farming The annual FIRA robotics conference in Toulouse, France, was presented as a virtual event at the end of 2020, with more than 1,500 participants from 70 countries. Jane Carley takes a look [...]
As featured in Arable Farming Magazine In search of resilience in farming systems by Arable Farming Feb 2021 Issue A new long-term, systems-based experiment is aiming to understand the ecological as well as economical differences between cropping systems. Mike Abram reports. At first glance the complexity [...]
As featured in Arable Farming Magazine Making the connections by Arable Farming Jan 2021 Issue A raft of technology is emerging to assist with machine management and decision-making, but how can we be sure it will work across machinery fleets? Jane Carley investigates. As technology develops [...]
Launched in the UK this year, xarvio Field Manager has already amassed 1,100 new users. Field Manager provides field-specific agronomic insights to growers and agronomists assisting decision making, from seeding to harvest.