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New John Deere tractor, sprayer and precision farming technology will be featured at November’s The CropTec Show in Peterborough, with the focus on machine, system and operator connectivity leading to increased efficiency and reduced operating costs.

John Deere’s new 6250R tractor, featuring the award-winning CommandPRO joystick and an AutoPowr transmission, will be operated with a 5200-litre capacity R952i trailed sprayer equipped with the innovative PowrSpray wet system in the event’s outdoor demonstration area. The 6250R develops up to 300hp with Intelligent Power Management and is fitted as standard with JDLink telematics, including remote display access (RDA) and wireless data transfer (WDT) linked to the MyJohnDeere.com website portal.

CommandPRO’s functionality allows the tractor to be controlled from top speed to zero with a simple push or pull of the joystick. Both this and the conventional tractor pedals can be operated at the same time, and there is no need for an external ISOBUS joystick as the driver can also operate the tractor and ISOBUS functions simultaneously.

PowrSpray features a unique dual-circuit design with two solution pumps, each optimised for a specific function. A 1200-litre/min filling pump offers fast fill of the solution tank at low engine speeds, to reduce noise and fuel consumption. Automatic filling shut-off and the ability to rapidly power fill the 400-litre clean water tank are both standard features.

The industry exclusive Active Pause function enables the solution tank to stop filling while still providing clean water under high pressure for rinsing out chemical containers. This means the typical race against the filling solution tank is eliminated, and operators have all the time and clean water they need to complete chemical filling without stress.

A 1000-litre/min spraying pump delivers high output and exceptional spray accuracy. Automatic control of tank agitation and fully automated multi-cycle rinsing and dilution functions are also standard features of PowrSpray.

Indoors at the show, the emphasis will be on John Deere’s latest FarmSight services and support, including features such as RDA, WDT and Service Advisor Remote, which are now widely available from John Deere dealer specialists. All of this technology is designed to increase productivity and reduce cost, especially when paired with other FarmSight systems such as AutoTrac automatic steering and Section Control for sprayers and spreaders.

John Deere sees the future of farming in connectivity, making the most of machine, field and agronomist data in the decision making process. The company is pioneering the use of such data based around MyJohnDeere.com and a range of connected machines and systems.

The Operations Centre in MyJohnDeere.com serves as the central online location for farmers and contractors to connect to their machines and their fields. It also allows a wide range of partners to provide additional support to customers, including implement manufacturers, agricultural input suppliers, software companies and agricultural service providers such as crop advisors and other specialist consultants.

The latest apps make it very easy to keep track of machinery, get advice on seed and fertiliser rates or spray requirements and monitor machine productivity by working together with, and being connected to, the dealer, farm adviser and other suppliers.

For example, the new MyJobConnect service includes a MyJobsManager app for farm or fleet managers and contractors, and a MyJobs app for operators. There is also an additional app in the MyJobConnect Premium service called MyLogistics, which is an intelligent ag navigation app.

Services can be accessed in two ways, either from the office computer or on-the-go using dedicated apps for tablets and smartphones, which allow drivers to view and carry out tasks in real time from their mobile devices.

This latest John Deere connectivity package is designed to free up time for farmers and contractors to focus on their core business, and makes the complete work process including job planning, work orders, data recording, customer invoicing and reporting much easier, faster and more efficient.

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Opti-cal are pleased to provide cutting edge drone software and hardware solutions. For generations farmers have walked their fields investigating crops manually for signs of stress or disease. This traditional, labour intensive method is time consuming and can be difficult when crop canopies thicken. With the development of UAV technology, this is no longer required!

Using the Parrot Sequoia multispectral sensor capturing multispectral images has never been easier. The Sequoia is revolutionising the sector, offering a comprehensive, adaptable solution that is compatible with all types of drones. With its two sensors, multispectral and sunshine, Sequoia analyses plants' vitality by capturing the amount of light they absorb and reflect. Collecting this data means that farmers can do what's best for their fields.

Implementing DJI Zenmuse XT's thermal capabilities, irrigation and water pooling can be managed more efficiently. Powered by FLIR's industry leading Tau 2 thermal camera, the Inspire XT gives growers a detailed understanding of the state of their lands, giving them fundamental insights that lead to better decision making.

Pix4D’s cutting edge software, multispectral, RGB and thermal images can be converted into accurate reflectance and index maps, like NDVI, and high resolution orthomosaics. Easily integrate drone-based technology into your Ag operations, processing locally when and where you want.

Opti-cal have the knowledge and skills to be able to support your entry into the world of Aerial Survey work. We can advise you on getting the right UAV and sensors for your line of work and provide full training and support when it comes to processing your data into 2D and 3D systems.

Opti-cal Survey Equipment is a well-established industry-leading supplier of land survey and precision measurement technologies. We sell, hire and service new and re-conditioned land survey and laser equipment.

For more information please contact 0330 678 0181 or sales@surveyequipment.com – surveyequipment.com

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At Sencrop, we are a passionate team dedicated to making a real impact in agriculture.

Sencrop empowers ALL farmers to make the right decisions at the right time to improve their yields, and ultimately their way of life.
Sencrop allows agri-partners (resellers, chemical companies, technical centers, etc.) to spread their services with ultra-local information, and get a closer relationship with the farmers.

Our solution gives farmers the ability to:

View the current conditions of their fields in real time.
Make better agronomic decisions thanks to ultra-local weather information.
Have more interaction with their partners based on streaming data.

Thanks to low-power, long-range networks, and affordable, connected sensors, in-field data streams continuously into the Sencrop cloud platform.
Sencrop has developed a web and mobile-based platform to:

View in-field ag-weather conditions in real time.
Access or push alerts and decision-making tools.
Connect and fuel in any agry-partners services based on in-field data.connected to in-field sensors.

Sencrop is dedicated to bringing valuable precision farming services to farmers everywhere.

Sencrop is compatible with all agronomic Decision support tools and disease models: data integration to cooperatives/merchant’s agronomic models (disease prediction, pest management, stage of plant growth, etc.). We allow agri-partners to spread their services.
Sencrop is a collaborative platform enabling any farmer to share their data/observation with their ag-experts, partners or neighbours.
Low-power, large area network: a young technology but a global trend.

Today, Sencrop is building the largest customer base in Europe with powerful cloud and key partnerships.

Sencrop is particularly adapted to the potato growers and permits to predict the late blight disease, based on agronomic developed by key partners.

Reduce the amount of back and forth trips a farmer make to spray its crops; offset treatments by several days if necessary: local data relayed from the connected ag-weather station in real time are invaluable for deciding how to treat crops when risk factors for disease are present. Late blight growth is stimulated by successive periods of warm weather and high humidity. Water on potato leaves prompts blight zoospores to germinate and causes plants to become infected.

Sencrop enables you to anticipate and program a system of simple alerts. Sencrop can fuel data into any decisionmaking tool that makes it possible to know the risk of the fields being infected by late blight at any time, based on weather forecasts, crop varieties, planting, and sprouting dates, overall health statuses and previous actions taken (treatments and irrigation, etc).

For more information on Sencrop and potato crops, please visit http://www.sencrop.com/en/

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ACS Farm Image launches precision soil analysis services and a range of yield boosting products to mark 20 years of agricultural business.

September 2017 sees the 20^th anniversary for Farm Image, part of Kent-based Austin Contract Services Group who, over the past two decades, have provided agricultural services including soil sampling and lime spreading for farmers across the South East.

Since 1997, Farm Image has grown from solely offering soil pH analysis to today providing the most accurate techniques for obtaining a whole portfolio of useful soil data as well as offering a unique solution for each client.

Introducing SoilSmart.

The Farm Image team are of the strong ethos that profitability in farming heavily relies on making the most of your every hectare which in turn, is dependent on truly knowing your soil.

SoilSmart is the division of Farm Image that offers a range of sampling and analysis packages tailored to suit you and your business with no hidden costs or contracts. In doing so, Farm Image pride themselves in remaining a team that can provide an honest and personal service tailored to each and every one of their customers.

Whilst still offering the standard soil sampling techniques to give results for pH, P, K and Mg, Farm Image have expanded their SoilSmart range to include Precision Sampling and Smart Scanning.

As opposed to simply taking samples in a ‘W’ pattern across a field, Precision Sampling uses GPS technology to systematically sample a field, taking 16 cores from every hectare or a specific number of samples per hectare at the request of the farmer. As a result, this technique provides a far more accurate insight into unique field environments and allows for the formation of Farm Image Precision Maps (as depicted) clearly showing field zones for each field property- pH, P, K and Mg.

However, in 2017, Farm Image began researching further into the ways in which soil can be analysed and how that may be translated into precision farming techniques such as variable rate seeding and fertiliser application. As a result, September’s anniversary celebrations sees the launch of SoilSmart’s Smart Scanner service using the latest in-field scanning equipment.

Farm Image, having invested in the technology to offer soil data analysis at an unbeatable rate of samples per hectare as well as adding analysis of Organic Matter, Soil Texture (Electrical Conductivity) and Topography to their precision packages.

Amy Bradley, Marketing Manager at Farm Image, explains that ‘the Farm Image Smart Scanner is able to take 200 readings per hectare and form on-the-go field maps via an on-board tablet, to the highest accuracy for pH, Organic Matter, Soil Texture and Topography, all of which drastically affect water holding capacity and nutrient availability for crops.’

“We were the first British company to import a U3 soil scanner from Veris Technologies” remembered Amy. “It came straight off the plane at Heathrow and went to the 2017 Cereals show in Lincolnshire where it turned a lot of heads.” “Since then, we have been busy taking the service from farm to farm across the UK showing farmers the real potential in farming precisely for profitability”.

The team at Farm Image are keen to make it clear to their customers how the biggest benefit of the Smart Scanner service is how it translates into huge money savings by allowing farmers to be more targeted with drilling as well as product application. The advantage of the Smart Scanner mapping compared to grid sampling is that soil is not laid out in neat squares, there is variability within most 1Ha grids, and modern farming equipment has the ability to change rates multiple times within each 1ha grid, and meet the soil’s needs more accurately.

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With 42 percent of the 486 drinking water protected areas in England and Wales at risk from pollution by agricultural chemicals, growers must protect water quality by ensuring this autumn’s crop protection programmes are only applied when it is safe and prudent to do so.

That is the advice from Adama which warns that unless growers act now, ongoing water quality issues threaten to remove even more actives from the crop protection armoury.

“UK agriculture has already lost more than 70% of the active substances at its disposal since the early 1990s,” explains Ali Bosher, Marketing Director at Adama. “Put simply, if we as an industry don’t do more to protect our natural water resources, even more active ingredients will be banned, leaving farmers to face a future with significantly restricted weed and pest control options.”

Whether it is metaldehyde from slug pellets or key weed control active ingredients, more needs to be done to prevent these and other agrochemicals from entering fresh water supplies.

“It is clear that efforts to date have been insufficient to mitigate many of the non-target, water related impacts associated with applying chemicals to arable crops,” Ali continues. “The increasing trend of raw water exceedances for oilseed rape herbicides such as metazachlor, carbetamide, propyzamide and quinmerac need to be reversed.”

To protect and promote water quality, Adama urges growers not to apply chemicals when there is a risk of active ingredients being leached into running field drains, ditches or natural water courses.

“Whether it is safe to apply depends on a raft of factors including field slope, soil moisture deficit, location and current and future weather conditions,” Ali adds. “Assessing these dynamics can be difficult, especially when working across a large geographical area, at multiple sites or on land with a range of soil types. For that reason, we are appealing to growers, agronomists and sprayer operators to use the free WaterAware app prior to making any applications this autumn.”

The WaterAware app uses GPS positioning and data from the British Geological Survey’s MySoil-UKSO Platforms, MORECS and Met Office to spatially assimilate soil type, soil moisture deficit and slope information along with forecasted weather conditions on a field-by-field basis to advise when it is safe or unsafe to make applications. It also incorporates the #SlugAware tool which enables users to assess the risk of slug and snail activity and to target activity on an individual field basis.

“By considering factors such as soil type, humidity, soil moisture, temperature, cultivation method, wind and current and previous crops, #SlugAware gives growers a low, medium or high threat of slug activity warning based on their land’s specific conditions in a given 24 to 72 hour period,” Ali explains. “Only applying pellets during low risk periods will help to protect water quality and help to extend the longevity of metaldehyde-based slug pellets such as Gusto 3.

“The app is completely free to use and is designed to prevent key active ingredients from entering and polluting raw water supplies and in doing so to avoid further regulatory restrictions,” Ali concludes.

The WaterAware app is FREE to download from Google Play for Android devices or the Apple Store for Apple devices. BASIS and NRoSO points available for using the app. For more information click here https://www.adama.com/uk/en/wateraware

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Investment in the correct grain handling equipment to prevent costly crop deterioration is critical. For the UK market, BDC Systems offers a complete range of grain handling, drying, cleaning and storage equipment, which includes the renowned Skandia Elevator range of belt & bucket elevators and chain & flight conveyors and the increasingly popular Svegma continuous flow grain driers.

BDC Systems is the UK distributor for Skandia Elevator and Svegma driers. Skandia elevator is a company that has specialised in designing and manufacturing innovative handling lines for nearly 100 years and the Svegma drier was first introduced to the UK in 1984.

Over the last few years, Skandia has invested heavily in new manufacturing and assembly plant at their Swedish HQ in Vara. This includes state of the art 3D design capability, robotic punching and robotic folding lines. The company's batch manufacturing strategy allows products to be manufactured and stored on site, resulting in very short lead times from the company's 4500 square metre warehouse.

Product quality is one of Skandia Elevator's major strengths but it is their commitment to the customer and fast deliveries which are critical in the UK. BDC Managing director Andrew Head commented: “The attention to detail, information provided and quality of the equipment are major factors when seeking equipment suppliers and Skandia fulfil all of these requirements.”

Skandia offers three different handling lines to suit the requirements of capacity, usage and quality. Every line is a complete system of bottom conveyors, elevators and top conveyors. Conveyors can be curved or inclined to allow flexibility in plant design. All products within each line work together as a system and are matched to attain maximum flow rates and avoid unnecessary blockages.

BDC Systems has developed the Svegma drier for the UK market over the past 23 years to become a leading player in the continuous flow drier market. With the unique lateral fixing design, the driers are particularly suitable for drying specialist seed crops and malting barley due to the clean unobstructed drying column, as well as conventional wheat and oil seed rape. With various options on, capacities, fuel, control panels, fans and sizes there will be a Svegma drier to suit all situations.

In addition to Skandia and Svegma products, BDC Systems can supply, cleaning, storage and ventilation equipment so offering a complete solution.

For more information contact BDC Systems Ltd, Grafton Road, Burbage, Marlborough, Wilts, SN8 3BA. Tel: +44 (0) 1672 810851,. Email: info@bdcsystems.com, website: bdcsystems.com

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Forward-thinking farmers and agronomists will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of novel science and innovative technology when the CropTec show returns to Peterborough at the end of November.

CropTec is now recognised as one of the key diary dates in the arable calendar, gaining a reputation as the UK’s leading knowledge exchange event in the sector.

Farmers and their advisers are attracted by CropTec’s unique informal atmosphere that creates the ideal forum to exchange ideas and experiences, according to Elisabeth Mork-Eidem, group head of events at Briefing Media, which organises the CropTec show.

“Content and knowledge exchange will remain the focus of CropTec. We want to build on being the show where visitors come armed with questions and leave with useful practical advice on how to become better at what they do,” she said.

“We would urge all those farmers and agronomists who are looking to the future to come to Peterborough in November to discuss adaptation of new technology, cutting edge agronomy and best business practices.

“They can get that advice from networking with like-minded industry peers, from the well researched, topical seminars and from visiting the exhibition hall and having the right conversations with relevant companies who have brought their best technical staff.”

CropTec’s key features include the trade stand exhibition which features a wide range of innovative products and thinking.

The popular seminar programme returns, featuring over a dozen leading speakers covering the four key technical areas of crop breeding, crop establishment, crop nutrition and crop protection. Seminar content is based on feedback and extensive research with farmers and agronomists to ensure it is both relevant and timely.

Four knowledge hubs, which consist of short, sharp presentations delivering key-take away messages, will also feature at CropTec 2017. The popular black-grass hub returns, and three new hubs covering oilseed rape quality and weed management, biostimulants, and data & analytics also feature.

CropTec also includes a sprayer demo area where visitors can drive some of the most advanced sprayers in the market.

New for 2017 alongside the hubs is a Farm Innovation Zone, where visitors can speak to a range of leading agritech innovators.

Adama Agricultural Solutions returns as CropTec headline sponsor. “We are once again extremely pleased to be the headline sponsor for what we are sure will be another exceptionally successful CropTec show,” said Ali Bosher, marketing director for Adama.

“With a wide selection of industry-leading speakers covering a range of technical, practical and business issues, CropTec provides the perfect opportunity for farmers, agronomists and professional spray operators to learn more about the very latest developments in crop establishment, protection, nutrition, and yield enhancement.

“We look forward to the 2017 event and are proud to be able to support such a focused, professional and well-targeted event.”

A maximium of six BASIS and six NRoSO points are available each day. FACTS CPD points will also be available.

The CropTec show is free for visitors to attend, provided tickets are booked in advance.

The event will take place at the East of England Showground, Peterborough, on Wednesday 29^th and Thursday 30^th November.

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