Cereals: the UK’s technical event for the arable industry Join over 20,000 farmers, agronomists and industry professionals on the 13th & 14th June at Chrishall Grange, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, for the arable industry’s leading technical event. Your industry, your event Cereals 2018 is the start of a fresh, collaborative approach to…

We have the most amazing opportunity to take a leading role in the world but somehow we find ourselves as both price takers and slaves to legislation and let’s be honest we end up complaining about both facts. Perhaps we should attempt to turn this around. I recently read an…

In the last few months and years our industry has faced some serious and challenging issues driven by public perception rather than hard science. In this and the next few blogs I will argue that we are collectively failing to address the publics concerns in a way that is relevant…

Recently I noted that at Agritechnica the UK farmers were not really investing, that they were in a state of uncertainty about the future. This week in Oxford (at the Oxford Farming Conference) you could feel that change. There were many announcements indicating business as usual and funding as usual…

Agritechnica is where the world of agriculture meets and is a great place to take the temperature of European farming. Brexit may not yet have happened but its effects have begun, the atmosphere around European and British farming could not be further apart. While UK farmers are benefiting from a…

When Aiden Turner as ‘Poldark’ first burst onto our screens topless and wielding a scythe, it was so popular in the tabloids, my wife wondered if it might strike a resurgence in a long lost farming skill. Of course, the scything was the last thing they were interested in and…

Vast amounts of soil quality knowledge has been generated and used to map soil complexity but science has not yet created useful ‘rules of thumb’ to cut through the complexity to deliver practicable guidelines for growers. If we want to manage soil quality and get our soils right, we need…

We are returning to the Yorkshire Agricultural Machinery Show (YAMS) which is held at the York Auction Centre, Murton, York, YO19 5GF on the first Wednesday in February after the end of the shooting season. The next YAMS will be held on 7th February 2018.   OPEN FROM 8.30AM TO…

State-of-the-art computer software is helping to equip Scottish agriculture students with the skills they need to become the farmers of the future. A collaboration between Scotland’s Rural College, SAC Consulting and SoilEssentials, one of the country’s leading precision farming specialists, has seen the development of special student mapping software to teach…

SoilEssentials Ltd, the award-winning, Scottish precision ag specialists are ready to introduce their new cloud-based land management platform at Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany 12-18th November. Three years ago they embarked on this ambitious project, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and in collaboration with Deimos Space UK, the British…