Why Agrovista is sponsoring the Progressive Farmer of the Year award
Agrovista agronomist Craig Green will be using a new fungicide in his potato blight programmes this season and plans for wheat T3s and OSR desiccation are also taking shape.
Crops have endured the coldest spring for a long time up in the north of Scotland and have now enjoyed a bit of respite with a warm week.
Exhibitors at next month's Fruit Focus show at East Malling in Kent (22 July) will be unveiling a number of innovations to the industry,
Two new web tools - one focused on calculating seed rates and other on weather forecasting - were unveiled at Cereals this year to help growers maximise crop potential.
Agrovista's Chris Martin believes the key to using cover crops effectively is to choose the most appropriate mix for the specific purpose, be it soil conditioning, nutrient trapping, fumigation to tackle soil pests, or weed suppression.
This year, the attention is focusing even more on precision drilling and the best way forward in practical terms on farm, says Mr Martin.
Despite the number of different drilling solutions on the market for OSR, it did not put off one North Yorkshire grower from building his own to meet an exacting criteria. Howard Walsh reports.
MapIT Pro data manager will be launched ahead of the 2016 cropping season, part of the Agrovista Axis software, this pioneering web-based software will allow many pieces of the Precision Farming jigsaw to finally fall into place.
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