Planter maintenance experts encourage due diligence when inspecting and calibrating the seed metering units. It’s important to have those components locked in to begin with. The more acres the planter ...

Planting lettuce seedlings in the field. Photo by Lominda Afedraru. Though conditions in UK and Uganda are very different. Large scale commercial farming is faced with a similar challenge: How to ...

Planting crops in very huge tracts of land with hand hoe can be a tedious activity that could go on for days, increasing the cost of labour for a farmer. In the normal planting system here in Uganda ...

Potato kit specialist Standen Engineering has launched its new SR200 planter, which has a clever cup design that allows it to cope with longer and larger potato seed. Ely-based Standen has a history ...

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As with most agricultural machine categories, overseas manufacturers hold sway in terms of volume when it comes to the myriad seed drill types offered to growers. Global giants such as Amazone, Horsch ...

Some growers have opted for alternative crops, such as chickpeas, that help with nitrogen fixation and have the ability to emerge from 12cm down or more. Now, however, a new home-grown invention ...