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  • Geostatistics and precision farming

    Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding A new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association by University of Reading Professor Margaret A. Oliver explains that spatial variation...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, May 3 2013

  • Straw – what is it good for?

    Author Name: AHDB ed Alan Spedding There is a significant amount of potential profit for the grower, as well as bedding or energy potential, in the millions of tonnes of straw which is currently incorporated into the soil. Straw incorporation is seen by some as a useful means of sequestering carbon and...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Apr 29 2013

  • Agroforestry

    Author Name: Stephen Briggs, Nuffield Farming Scholarship Agroforestry can make farms bigger and more productive, using deeper soil layers and the air space above the farm and make better use of the sun, air, soil and water than monoculture, It can be as profitable as monoculture, especially when high...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 19 2013

  • The National Centre for Precision Farming

    Author Name: Harper Adams University Precision farming may be seen to be entering a new era of development in which engineering and associated technological innovation is opening up new dimensions of support and intervention, not only in the established disciplines of arable and livestock farming, but...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 8 2013

  • Precision Farming - how it's done

    Author Name: Jake Freestone, Oxford Farming Conference Today’s precision farming offers three main benefits. First, cost saving from accurate field operations, resulting in reduced diesel, man-hours and wearing parts. Second is to the environment, eg greater accuracy lowers the risk of nitrogen...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Jan 16 2013

  • Answering farmers’ questions on using digestate and compost

    Author Name: WRAP A programme of GB-wide events and lectures is underway to disseminate the latest results from the Digestate and Compost in Agriculture field experiments. Designed to inform farmers, advisers and students on how to maximise the potential of anaerobic digestate (biofertiliser) and compost...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Oct 19 2012

  • Are we using enough P&K?

    Author Name: Ian Richards There’s some interesting information about use of phosphate and potash in two recent publications. The latest report from PAAG (at http://www.nutrientmanagement.org ) summarizes results from 170,000 soil samples analyzed by the participating laboratories. It shows that...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Oct 8 2012

  • Understanding your options: getting more N out of manure

    Author Name: DEFRA FAS Technical Article Agricultural manure and slurry is a valuable source of nutrients. However, farmers are often uncertain about how much of the nitrogen (N) in manure and slurries applied to land is actually available for crop uptake. This article provides new information that will...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Thu, Aug 9 2012

  • Farming Futures– Fast Forward to the future

    Author Name: Farming Futures So, it’s happened. Farming Futures, like the iconic friendly local corner shop, is “under new management”. read more
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Sep 26 2011

  • Industry Survey: Supporting Community Energy

    Author Name: Jin Park, University of Sussex Researchers at the University of Sussex - Science and Technology Policty Research Unit are studying how community energy can spread and grow and are looking for groups to take part in an online survey of community energy projects. The results will be used to...
    Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Aug 24 2011
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