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Technology
Solar Powered
Progress is achieved through employment of the best techniques from the past and new technology from today. Satellite guided, light weight tractors, modern high roof, open, calving building (providing the outside inside), Solar PV electricity generation, the best available and appropriate genetics, to name a few.
This is solar powered farming, not only for electricity generation but cover crops and diverse pastures are solar powered too.
Our Soil Fertility is Solar Powered
Agri-EPI Centre is supplying ground breaking technology to test and employ on our farm. Variable rate satellite guided seeding, satellite spectroscopy mapping, cattle monitoring, yield monitoring.
The 99.9KVA Solar Photo Voltaic array, situated on the main cattle building, provides enough electricity to process and dry the grain in a dry season the remaining electricity generated (50%) is exported to the National Grid.
Satellite Guided Home Made 3D Seeder
We sold our plough in 2004 to ensure we were never tempted to use it again. A selection of spring tined and rigid cultivators are used with narrow or wide points depending on soil moisture and purpose. Three passes with our Kongskilde Vibroflex including mixing shears will achieve a seed bed, after diverse ley narrow points are used first to break the sod.
Our aim is to use No Till methods in future, however this is still in the early developmental stages despite good work by Rodale Institute in the US.
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