14th August 2024
Sustainable Solutions: A wider viewpoint
Widening the crop rotation has been a vital tool for one farm manager in his drive to make the land both more productive and sustainable. CPM speaks to him to dig into the details.
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Melanie Jenkins
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27th July 2024
Insider’s View: Wheat – A glimpse of gold
As the challenges of modern crop production push farmers towards cutting inputs while achieving the same results, could new bread-making variety, RGT Goldfinch, be a breakthrough as the first commercial insecticide-free wheat on the market?…
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24th July 2024
Cereals Event report: Focus on food production
Farming has faced an incredibly trying season, but this year’s Cereals Event proved there’s still plenty to be positive and optimistic about, whether it’s a change in the administration, progressive breeding or the wider adoption…
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24th July 2024
Better buying, better selling: Optimising economic wheat options
So far, the 2023/24 season has been one many might want to forget, but a global tightening of wheat supplies could help drive up prices. CPM examines the current market, its future prospects and what…
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23rd July 2024
Groundswell report: Immersive learning
Nine years of Groundswell festival and it continues to be a sell-out event. CPM joined the 8000 visitors at Lannock Manor Farm in Hertfordshire to hear this year’s hot topics, meet faces new and old,…
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23rd July 2024
Balers: The plastic problem
Plastic use in modern farming is unavoidable - its uses are many and varied. But more often than not it isn’t recycled, creating a large and growing problem that one organisation is trying to tackle.…
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23rd June 2024
Insider’s View: OSR – Will Maverick fly?
The name Maverick might forever elicit the Top Gun theme tune, but could the latest oilseed rape variety of the same name take the crop out of the danger zone by helping growers spread risk…
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20th June 2024
Insider’s View: wheat – An epic reimagining
Beowulf has arrived as the strongest fighter, ready to take on Grendel and his mother, but this time in the form of the highest yielding hard feed wheat armed with an arsenal of strong agronomic…
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19th June 2024
Smart tech: Connecting the dots
Smart technology comes in many forms and so far as machine connectivity goes, it’s not just about collecting data, but about improving machine and farm performance across the board. CPM checks out some of the…
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16th June 2024
Sustainable Solutions: Making every hectare pay
Optimising productivity to return the best profit possible is helping one Kent farmer target long-term sustainability. CPM speaks to him to discover how he’s doing this.
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23rd May 2024
Claas: Investing in the future
In 2013, Claas set out on a mission for its long-term future by fully redeveloping its UK headquarters and through the inception of its own training academy. CPM visited its Saxham site to see the…