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Tractor ‘walks’ on water

  Mitas and Claas walk on water Mitas high-horsepower tyres helped a Claas Axos 320 tractor weighing 4 tons to ‘walk’ on water. Without the massive flotation tyres the tractor

Harvest Results – 19th September

Harvest Results for a further five AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter wheat trials were reported on the 19th September, as well as some spring barley results.

New carrot line in Poland tops the bill

As part of an ongoing commitment to the export vegetable market, Tong Engineering has completed a large-scale carrot handling facility in Poland.

It’s critical to take care using metaldehyde-based slug pellets

Wet weather this summer in many parts of the UK has led to large slug populations and means growers need to be extra vigilant in monitoring crops for damage from

€20m state-of the-art sugar beet research centre opened

A new €20 million Sugar Beet R&D research centre, the ‘SESVanderHave Innovation Centre’ (SVIC) was inaugurated by Willy Borsus, Federal Minister of Agriculture, in the presence of 250 customers and

LEAF gets industry talking engagement

Stop talking about ‘consumers’, start talking about ‘people’; inform through ‘entertainment’, don’t ‘educate’; and collaborate to achieve success. These were the key themes that emerged from LEAF (Linking Environment And

Four delegates sought from UK & Ireland for Bayer’s Youth Ag-Summit

Entries are open for the third Bayer Youth Ag-Summit to be held in Brussels, Belgium in October 2017, in partnership with two Belgian young farmers associations, Groene Kring and Federation

Pink bales in aid of breast cancer charity hailed a huge success

According to Jackie Bradley of organising company Volac, the campaign, which raises money from sales of a specially-produced pink version of the film used to wrap the bales, has already

Tractor run helps raise funds for Royal Welsh showground improvements

    The tractor run was organised by local enthusiast Ray Nicholls (left); with him are Georgina Cornock-Evans and 2017 RWAS President, Brian Jones. An enjoyable classic tractor drive through

Father and son win World Ploughing titles

Almost perfect weather conditions meant crowds in their thousands from all over the globe turned out to see World Ploughing 2016 at Crockey Hill, near York on 8th to 11th September.

Harvest Results – 13th September

Harvest results for a further five AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter wheat trials, across four locations, are reported, in addition to spring barley results.

Added bonus for grass weed control

Certis’ straight flufenacet herbicides, Sunfire and System 50 have been granted an Extension Authorisation for Minor Use (EAMU) on rye and triticale, for the control of black-grass and annual meadow

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