This FAR newsletter includes:Chief Executive's Report, Levy rates for 2010, Farewell from Andrea, Chairman's review, Pasture renewal provides potential to add 1.6 billion, A focus on clover, Precision Agriculture (FAR’s Combinable Crops boasts precision farming solutions), Crop management with active sensors, Precision agriculture - current practice and future potential, EM mapping and its use for site specific crop management, Crop sensors - fancy new toys or a genuine advance in N use efficiency?, Cropping farmer hits the mark, Cultivating our future, Research aims to boost perennial ryegrass production, Packed programme planned for FAR maize field day, Marketing arable crops, Maize - a European perspective, Efficient irrigation - a requirement not an option, Christmas tree biscuits.
From the Ground Up, Issue 60
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