Issue 13April 2021

Introduction – Issue 13

Substituting the plough, power harrow, sub-soiler and cultivator for a one-pass machine makes sense for any farm. Creating a soil environment which allows nature to do the hard work is, as we all know, beneficial to farm profitability, farming lives, greenhouse gas emissions, birds and bees. These benefits fit with the thinking of Defra minister …

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Work from Home

We have featured articles on many different types of robots that will at some point influence the way we farm, but have the simple wins in the arable world have been ignored? Possibly because they don’t benefit the trade, maybe they are simply a bad idea or maybe a bit of both. However, if the …

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Living Mulches For Sustainable Cropping Systems: A Step Towards ‘Regenerative Organic’ Agriculture In The UK?

Written by Dominic Amos, Crops Researcher at the Organic Research Centre As based on information found on Agricology (www.agricology.co.uk)Reducing tillage and chemical inputs can be beneficial for soil and the environment, so could a permanent clover understorey acting as a ‘living mulch’, moving towards a perennial soil cover, offer a practical solution to reducing inputs …

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A Blank Canvas

Written by Tom Chapman, Head of Regenerative at Innovation for Agriculture How would we design agriculture now, in the 21st Century, if we were starting from scratch? What would we do differently, given what we know about regenerative agriculture and about farming with, not battling against, nature? Would we continue with the same cropping, the …

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Does Ploughing Fit In Regenerative Agriculture?

Watching the live feed from NASA last week as the rover ‘Perseverance’ touched down on Mars was a quite spectacular achievement. A planetary alignment, or confluence, of millions of externalities came together to achieve something marvellous, along with a generous helping of rigorous planning and attention to detail. Sometime a series of events can surprise …

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