A scaled-up version of SKAi (pronounced: Sky) the ‘retrainable, smart-camera vision system’, developed by precision farming specialist SoilEssentials, will make its debut at the 2023 Royal Highland Show. SKAi, which was awarded a 2022 Silver medal in the coveted Royal Highland Show Technical Innovation Awards has, over the past 12…

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Farmers across Scotland are being urged to have their soils tested and analysed in the face of continuing high input prices and ahead of changes to Scottish agricultural support schemes. Angus based, SoilEssentials – which has recently been tasked with sampling soils across Scotland’s new network of 9 monitor farms…

We are excited to announce and invite you to join us for the first UK webinar all about the AgBots from AgXeed! A panel of experts involved in the development and distribution of the first autonomous tractors to come to the UK market will host a webinar next week. Joris Hiddema…

Promoting agriculture in the Angus area, and getting SoilEssentials in the swing for the Summer show season, we are delighted to be a part of this great event, quite literally on our doorstep. See you there! Home | The Angus Show 2023

The findings of a ground-breaking farm trial investigating potato varieties resistant to crop-destroying potato cyst nematodes (PCN) were revealed last week at the James Hutton Institute (JHI) in Invergowrie.

Berwickshire-based, Colin McGregor took on the daily running of the family business in 1989 at the age of 21 when the farmed area was 300 ha and specialised in pre-packed potato production. In the past 23 years, his business has reached agreement to contract farm nearby neighbouring land and there…

After months of deliberation and a host of impressive farms to choose from, the finalists for this year’s AgriScot Arable Farm of the Year award have now been announced. Colin McGregor, McGregor FarmsColin McGregor of McGregor Farms in Berwickshire took on the daily running of the family business in 1989…

EssentialsNetRTK, the highly accurate signal correction network for tractor and implement guidance systems is being lauded by farming users EssentialsNetRTK, the highly accurate correction signal network for tractor and implement guidance systems is being lauded by farming users as the most reliable system of its kind. EssentialsNetRTK has been developed…

This week I presented on findings on PCN and groundkeeper sampling as part of the PCN Action Scotland group project. Funded by Scottish Government’s SASA (Science & Advice for Scottish Agriculture) and in partnership with SRUC, the James Hutton Institute and Scottish Agronomy we held an Open Day at Barnyards…