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Machinery stands at last week’s Cereals Event were awash with new implements for shallow to medium depth soil structure remediation as growers increasingly turn to direct drilling, often part of a ‘conservation’ or ‘regenerative’ farming approach. Despite this hardly being a new technique, there were novel features to be found on the latest contenders for the work. At Agri Weld, for example, the Mantis offers a front-mounted shallow soil loosening option that enables growers to exploit available tractor power by carrying it out at the same time as another operation. Combinat...

SHARING OPTIONS: Ryetec’s Restorer ALD subsoiler can be operated on the front or back of a tractor in different implement combinations. One of the UK’s major tillage shows, the Cereals Event held in eastern England, returned to the calendar as a live event last week. Growers turned out to discover more about the latest crop varieties, agronomy practices and proposed farm support policies – and, of course, to check out the latest soil-working, crop spraying and harvesting machinery. New implements with novel features for shallow- to medium-depth soil...

© Cultan Injecting fertiliser into the soil rather than spreading or spraying it over the top may sound expensive and overcomplicated, but a growing number of farmers believe they have been rewarded with major nitrogen efficiency gains. Cultan fertiliser applicators are now relatively established in Germany and the Netherlands and have been selling like hot cakes into eastern European countries such as Ukraine and Russia. Several farmers in the UK have also dabbled with the technology and, as pressure grows to improve nitrogen use efficiency in agriculture, growers ...