LAMMA is celebrating its 40th birthday at the Birmingham NEC. One of the most interesting trends in machinery has been the integration of other technologies – GPS navigation, AI-enabled analysis of data collected, the introduction of aerial imaging and sensing – and this is evidenced by a number of Agri-TechE members exhibiting.
Before making changes to soil carbon, Gary Mills-Thomas advised farms to assess their individual carbon situation to provide a baseline to measure changes against. TerraMap Carbon and Omnia Carbon management offered an ideal means of doing this.
Clever cultivation can mean anything from not cultivating at all to subsoiling or ploughing where necessary.” says Ian Robertson, head of soil health at Hutchinsons. “As a general rule, never cultivate at the same depth every year and make sure whatever you do delivers what the soil actually needs.”
Hutchinsons has launched its Helix project, which it says is the first of its kind to look at how technologies can be linked with knowledge to deliver a greater level of advice to farm businesses.
Keith Norman, formerly Technical Director for Velcourt Ltd has joined Hutchinsons as an external consultant.
There may be no escape from Brexit, but there are some offers of support at Cereals (14th-15 June). AHDB is providing a ‘Brexit bucket list’ with the
“Omnia Precision software mirrors the way farmers and agronomists think when they look at a field,” says Oliver Wood, Precision Farming Technology Manager at Hutchinsons.
Christmas is almost here so we asked a selection of experts in the agricultural industry what they’d want from Santa for this year that will
