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The thought of an Environment Agency (EA) inspection causes stress for many farmers. With broad inspection areas and various regulations to consider, it can be difficult to prepare. To help alleviate some of the uncertainty, we explore the eight most common reasons for inspection failures and things farmers should consider. According to the AIC, the Environment Agency ...
With the number of EA inspections on the rise, particularly in regions with potential water quality issues, ADAS agricultural consultant Eoin Murphy takes a look at a common point of failure – silage clamps. The CLA estimates that of the 4000 EA inspections that took place last year, nearly half (49%) of the farms inspected were non-compliant with at least one ...
To help raise awareness of water pollution in the UK and put additional pressure on the government to address this critical issue head on, a peaceful and inclusive rally took place earlier this month (November 3rd), organised by a coalition of water, environmental and wildlife groups. The March for Clean Water was held to draw attention to the state of the nation’s waterways, with 1,271 ...
The European Commission has developed an integrated “farm to fork” approach to food safety, which is set out in its White Paper on Food Safety. This covers every element of the food chain, including feed production. Additionally, the General Food Law Regulation sets out an overarching framework for the development of food and feed legislation both at EU and member state levels, ...
ByBESTMIX
Rightly, or wrongly, farmers have the capacity to dispose of waste where it cannot be seen. They have the equipment and the space to dig a hole, bury waste and cover it up. Most conscientious farmers will, of course, not do that, but what can they do with their old tyres? France has a solution. One that addresses the issue of cost of disposal for the farmers. In 2019, Ensivalor was established ...
This multipurpose tractor is ideal for all applications including soil preparation, planting, lime spreading, silage making, mowing, spraying, fertilizing, loader work and other general applications. ...
Because the ranch at Southern Cattle Company is in silage country, they can effectively supplement their animals with high-quality silage and hay. ...
„By digesting slurry, agricultural residues and grass silage from our farm, we were able to produce green energy ourselves with a 500kW CHP plant and use it on our company premises. ...
The previous owners also ran the plant on around 400,000 t of substrate, which was predominantly maize, but also included whole-plant silage, cereals and grass silage. In the new business operating model, input will now be reduced to 150,000 t per annum, agricultural residues will be utilised predominantly and additional CHP units will be ‘docked on’ ...
Bedding consisting of ground straw as well as silage leftovers are also fed into the digester. Currently, WELTEC is setting up two additional stainless-steel digesters for the digestion of all residues on the farm. ...
Queensland alters waste regulations to classify silage tyres as an end product. Queensland Silage Tyres - End of Waste Classification In late February 2021, Queensland Department of Environment and Science released the amended End of Waste Code for end-of-life tyres to include tyres used for silage storage, which deemed tyres as a resource ...
Sidewalls are used as weights for livestock feed storage coverings such as silage, haylage, or corn, weights for highway construction traffic drums, and mulch rings for newly planted trees. ...
The 5-layer extrusion investment in Kufstein significantly enhances its position as Centre of Excellence for agri production and will allow Coveris to extend its product range to include additional premium quality silage films for high speed wrappers and challenging bale sizes. The new equipment will be installed and commissioned during quarter two 2020, and together with the ...
The version with the 150 cm compression chamber also adapts to the latest family feeling of the Corsa range, introduced with the 420 ...
This is the latest product in an extension of Agnition’s organic line which now includes crop enhancements and hay and silage preservatives. Generate is a natural product that utilizes patented Microbial Catalyst® technology to liberate nutrients in the soil for greater uptake, healthier crops and improved soil and plant health in a wide range of crops. ...
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Beside several other Unterland branded silage wrap qualities, Coveris – Unterland Films offers a quite revolutionary product; the complete transparent Unterland Crystal. ...
Silage, food waste and wet manure will be the future input materials for the biogas plant in Agios Athanasios in the Thessaloniki regional unit recently ordered from EnviTec Biogas. ...
The raw materials used in Europe are usually not only crushed to a very small size, but also use silage corn as the raw material for production. But in China, not only does it not contain corn, even the straw is dry and of varying lengths. ...
“Farmer’s Lung is an occupational disease caused by breathing biologic dusts from hay, stored grain, silage or other agricultural products. We hope this video sheds some light on this allergic disease to raise awareness and help protect the nation’s agricultural ...
The 4R Fund most recently awarded nearly $2.7 million to five research efforts in California, Arizona, Utah, Arkansas and the South (Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas) to projects focused on almonds, vegetables, tart cherry, potatoes, wheat, corn and corn silage, alfalfa, cotton, rice, and soybean. Those funds were leveraged with $3.2 million from multiple stakeholders to ...