Author Posts: Farmers Guide

The UK’s cheese and wine industries have seen a decade of growth and innovation, with English and Welsh wine now one of the UK’s fastest growing agricultural sectors.

Potato farmers hit by recent severe flooding have been given a helping hand by Tesco and supplier Branston.

Sugar beet breeder KWS and the joint Seed Working Group of British Sugar and NFU Sugar have reached an agreement that extends the seed offering to growers.

Many farmers are looking to install wind turbines to power glamping sites, according to UK manufacturer FuturEnergy, which has launched the first remote-controlled micro wind turbine.

Suzuki has recently released three new market-leading ATVs – the KingQuad 750 power steering and KingQuad 500 power steering/non-power steering models.

Continued investment in pulses has seen two new additions to the 2020-21 PGRO Recommended List from breeders Limagrain UK.

A new range of Landini four-wheel-drive tractors, equipped with large diameter row crop wheels for maximum crop clearance, will be launched at Lamma ’20.

Seven highland cows have been given a new home on a Lancashire nature reserve, where they can live out the rest of their days helping to improve grassland for wildlife.

Leading agricultural manufacturer Claas is predicting a moderate rise in sales and stable income in 2020 despite the uncertain market environment.

In East Anglia, the establishment of healthy rape crops in order to withstand flea beetle damage is of paramount importance and growers’ investment in a sustainable and effective slug control strategy has been critical.

Where drilling of winter wheat has been delayed, the crop nutrition strategy should be adapted to help recover the lost yield potential.

Landquip is using LAMMA 2020 to unveil new products from both its Crop Sprayers business and its new Terra Solutions arm, which focuses on both import and UK manufacturing at Landquip’s Suffolk factory of cultivation equipment.