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• Editor’s Update - August 2010
Reader Registration Survey can be found on classified pages in this issue (towards the back of the magazine). I’m afraid pressure of space forced it out of its earlier position but please take the time to fill it in if you haven’t done so already.
• YFC Update - August 2010
Essex Young Farmers own Strictly Come Dancing event was held at the end of June at Towerlands, Braintree and attracted an estimated audience of 600. Organisers told Farmers Guide that the 12 competing couples performed brilliantly, but since there ha ...
• Points to Ponder - August 2010
It’s hardly surprising that your response to the release of information giving details of the recipients of CAP subsidy payments published in this column in June has been one of both shock and surprise. “How on earth can a Swedish accordion club get ...
• Cropchat Variety Views - August 2010
At the time of writing in early July, crops are making rapid progress towards harvest and by the time you are reading this article the combines will be about to roll, if they haven’t started already.
• Grain & Fertiliser Gossip - August 2010
Sitting here on July 19th deciding what to write for the August issue there is no doubt that the weather is a major factor for discussion. Having been through one of the worst spring dry spells in the past century, suddenly in mid-July we get torrent ...
• Leading UK subsoiler maker tackles compaction issues in Africa
SUBSOILERS from Sumo UK Ltd have been successfully alleviating compaction in the UK for a number of years; now, with the help of an East Yorkshire farmer, the machine has been tackling compaction in the harsh soils of Kenya.
• Stoll loaders fully endorsed by SDF
SAME Deutz-Fahr has extended its warranty and finance options to cover Lynx Stoll Loaders when purchased as a package with its tractors.
• New tipping mechanism ensures potato boxes are fully emptied
A NEW design of tipping mechanism that ensures potato boxes and bags are fully emptied has been introduced by Tong Peal . . .
• Versatile Knight cultivator proves highly productive
SIMON Parrish has built up a sizeable contracting business that has required some major changes to his machinery fleet to keep pace with a growing contract acreage on top of his own 60ha.
• New feed supplement boosts piglet production
FOLLOWING recognition under the UFAS feed approval scheme, UK pig farmers now have access to a new product, Digeston-K, a feed supplement that can improve sow productivity by at least one piglet/sow/year.
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