The past 30 or so years have brought major changes to farm machinery. This has usually been most evident in the scale of tractors and machines visible in fields and on rural roads. However, under the shiny metal skin of the machines is where the most significant changes have occurred.…

SoilEssentials, the Angus based precision farming specialists is celebrating a brace of anniversaries in 2020. The business, developers and suppliers of a multitude of pioneering hardware and software technologies to aide farmers and growers, celebrates 20 years of trading this year and also 10 years in partnership with machine control…

SoilEssentials has been awarded £40,000 to develop a feasibility study to help research and develop ways to tackle the spread of potato cyst nematode (PCN) to Scotland’s potato growing industry. The grant will help bring them together with academia to deliver this innovative project.The Collaborative Innovation Fund for food and…

TAKE ADVANTAGE! SoilEssentials is proud to support the Scottish Government’s Sustainable Agriculture Capital Grant Scheme (SACGS) which will provide grant funding for farmers and crofters to purchase specific items of agricultural equipment. We have a 20-year heritage of increasing efficiencies across the farm and as the only direct authorised reseller…

Scientists at the James Hutton Institute and partner organisations are working to understand the interactions between pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum and an array of soil-microbe-crop interactions in the development of blackleg, one of the most damaging bacterial plant diseases in the UK, responsible for annual losses of £50m for the potato…

Award-winning precision farming specialists SoilEssentials, has stepped in to help boost the technical training of the next generation of skilled agriculturalists. Dundee & Angus College, which is local to the Angus based firm, successfully applied for a £50k College Innovation Fund award from the Scottish Funding Council to support students…

As a finalist in this year’s awards we will be glued to our screens to find out if we have made the top spot! Awards night The winners of the 2020 British Farming Awards will be revealed for the first time ever in a virtual format, celebrating the fantastic individuals…

SoilEssentials are lucky enough to be shortlisted in the Agri-tech Innovator of the Year category with our Tuberzone innovation for potato growers, and this recognition certainly adds a little more icing to the 20th anniversary cake this year. The British Farming Awards 2020 has welcomed a record number of registrations…

Cross-industry collaboration is essential to the adoption of precision technology in agriculture, said the project co-ordinator of a recently completed KTIF (Knowledge Transfer Innovation Fund) project. The 12-month Tuberzone initiative, based in the East of Scotland, trialled new precision agriculture tools to predict tuber size of seed and salad potatoes…

Angus based precision farming solutions pioneers SoilEssentials have announced that they are going to be arranging catch up calls and chats to anyone who would have been planning to visit them at this year’s Highland Show in order to say hello, and raise money for charity at the same time.…