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The article focuses on Loris package, a service which helps growers increase crop yields through better targeted nitrogen dressings, launched by Kemira GrowHow. Its precision application maps are based on seven years' research on winter wheat. It also uses remotely sensed images to assess crop biomass. According to Robin Thompson of Kemira, Loris is compatible with the Global Positioning System of all main tractor manufacturers.

The article discusses the revival of fallowing at Bridge House Farm in Great Britain. The practice, keeping land cultivated but uncropped, is the key opening the door to the expansion of the family business run by brothers Keith and Robin Thompson. Until 2006 the Bridge House Farm operation had 230 hectares of arable on the home unit plus a further 200 hectares contract-farmed nearby. Most of the medium/heavy self-structuring soils had been in continuous wheat since 1969.

Reports on the effect of high nitrogen prices on fertiliser practices and growers according to manufacturers in Great Britain. Information a toolkit from Terra to help growers fine-tune fertiliser use; Overview of Yara's N-Plan programme; Advantage of the LORIS software to growers according to Robin Thompson of Kemira.

Presents information on the precision fertilizing approach to raising crops. Comment from Alan Smith, a winter wheat grower at Oxon, on the effectiveness of electromagnetic induction; Effect of the application of nitrogen to the crops; Evaluation by Kemira GrowHow precision farming adviser Robin Thompson of information retrieved from observing the approach.

A new service to help growers lift crop yields through better targeted nitrogen dressings has been launched by Kemira GrowHow.The company's Loris precision application maps are based on seven years' […]

By Louise Impey HIGH NITROGEN prices would have a positive effect on fertiliser practices and encourage growers to take a more scientific approach, the three main manufacturers agreed. Each promoted […]

By Andrew Blake IN A YEAR when the weather threw its worst at Oxon winter wheat grower Alan Smith, a pilot precision fertilising advice service based on electro-magnetic induction (EMI) […]