Between December 1 and January 16, farmers in Severn Trent priority catchments can sign up to dispose of unwanted pesticides through the water company’s free, COVID-secure Pesticide Amnesty scheme.
Satellite technology is offering opportunities to look at new ways of monitoring grass growth, the health and movement of animals and milk yields. LIC is a New Zealand company leading the way.
Spikey is the flagship product of Pastoral Robotics, a New Zealand company focused on reducing nitrate leaching and greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming.
Another example of the ‘work smarter, not harder’ ethos of New Zealand farmers is a range of fully automated feeder wagons being developed by Zeddy.
POST mortem reports consistently show that the increase in sudden deaths in lambs in the autumn is down to pasteurellosis.