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Our top stories for February 2010
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Lamma
2010 slideshow.
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Bailey
Trailers' new factory.
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Paul
Gunther Contracting.
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New FG weather forecast
Farmers Guide has launched its new postcode based weather service.
Instead of county-by-county forecasts for the next 24 hours,
we now offer forecasts for your Postcode for the next 72 hours.
You can enter your Postcode each time, or the website can remember
it so that your weather appears every time you visit the site.
Have a look and see what you think.
• Golden Case IH Maxxum 140 selling for charity
CASE IH dealers Ernest Doe Power and Harper & Eede are selling a Case IH Maxxum 140 in a sealed bid auction to benefit the charity Myeloma UK.
• New factory will help Bailey Trailers meet its potential
LINCOLNSHIRE-based Bailey Trailers has started 2010 by moving into new premises. The firm has relocated five miles from its previous base at Aunsby to a custom-built production site on an industrial estate at Sleaford.
• Can biotechnology feed the World?
UK AND European farmers need the option of growing biotech crops if they are to meet the needs of a larger, richer, urban world population, especially if climate change makes increased yields an even greater challenge.
• New treatment for the fabric and structure of empty grain stores
GROWERS that had planned to use the grain store pest treatment based on pirimiphos-methyl (EC formulation) to treat empty stores and store structures are now unable to do so as this use is no longer supported on its label.
• YFC Update - February 2010
The number of deaths that occur on farms every year are to be slashed with the help of Young Farmers’ Clubs.
• Norfolk’s muck baron moves with the times
Farmers Guide visits Paul Gunther Contracting to find out how the business has developed since it started in the early 1970s.
• Precision Farming Event offers the chance to win an N-Sensor for a year
VISITORS to the forthcoming Precision Farming Event have the chance to win a year’s free use of a Yara N-Sensor simply by registering and purchasing a pre-paid ticket for the show.
• Tony Clark – 1925-2009
IT IS with great sadness we announce the passing of an old friend and regular contributor to Farmers Guide, Tony Clark . . .
• Grain & Fertiliser Gossip - February 2010
It may be amusing to some of you that yours truly, who at times has been accused of thinking he can walk on water, is not able to do it when the water is frozen!
• Power on the Land: Equipment for ATVs
IT WAS their value as lightweight runabout vehicles that first attracted farmers to the idea of buying an ATV, but since then the list of jobs they are used for has expanded.
• Normac hedge management demonstration
THE Norfolk Farm Machinery Club's (Normac) Diss centre has organised a demonstration day covering all aspects of hedge management on Tuesday, February 9th.
• Tag along for training in 2010
MANAGING nutrient requirements, controlling cereal diseases and optimising pesticide applications are three key themes for productive and profitable farming, and three key themes for The Arable Group’s (Tag) winter courses.
• Variety Views: Newly recommended spring-sown crops for 2010- February 2010
IN January I looked at the newly recommended varieties of autumn-sown crops; this month we take a look at spring-sown crops and see which varieties may be worthy of your attention in the coming years.
• Is your farmhouse really a farmhouse?
GONE is the general rule that agricultural land and buildings are exempt from inheritance tax. Every opportunity to repay public debt is being seized and now farmhouses are in the firing line.
• Measuring soil mineral nitrogen is the best option
THE recently published Government strategy Food 2030 calls on producers to secure a sustainable food supply using resources more effectively and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• Farm diversification schemes rewarded
IMAGINATIVE and successful diversification schemes and enterprises created by entrepreneurial East Anglian farmers have been recognised at an awards ceremony at Trinity Park, Ipswich.
• Virtual World - February 2010
With few grumbles to be heard about delays on the road network around Newark Showground at this year’s Lamma Show, it looks like the changes made to traffic flow at the site this year can be counted a success.
• Lamma 2010 slideshow
Trade stand numbers at Lamma 2010 reached a record 615, more than 25% more than the 480 achieved last year. The organisers said much of the growth had come from Irish manufacturers attending the event for the first time in search of business from the ...
• Drilling details vital in spring pulse establishment
IMPROVED bean and pea prices and high fertiliser costs are making spring pulse plantings an attractive proposition. But getting these crops in the ground requires some careful attention to detail.
• New sales manager strengthens Opico team
OPICO has created a new sales manager position and appointed Charles Bedforth to take responsibility of machinery and parts sales of both the He-Va and Opico brand ranges.
• Points to Ponder - February 2010
SO, WHAT did you think of the Oxford Farming Conference? I detect a somewhat mixed reaction from what I read and hear.
• Abbey Farm dispersal sale slideshow
MORE than 400 potential buyers turned up when Brown & Co conducted a retirement dispersal sale for TH&WG Moore at Abbey Farm, Walsingham, Norfolk, on December 1, 2009.
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