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HORSCH Seminar in the UK

Horsch UK held their first Seminar at the Lincolnshire Show grounds EPIC Centre on the 7th March 2012. The topic was “The Future of Cultivation and Seeding Techniques in the UK”.

Over 250 customers and dealers attend the day to listen to some very good speakers and informative presentations.

Stephen Burcham from Horsch UK welcomed everybody to the perfect venue for the day. He then introduced the first speaker of the day Michael Horsch. Michaels’ presentation was, as usual, very interesting covering several topics from comparing fertiliser depletion in Kazakhstan to Canada through to the benefits of reducing machinery traffic in the field by reducing traffic wheelings. He also outlined that the price of Phosphate and Potassium is only going higher and the need to use it more effectively.

The second presentation was given by Professor Dick Godwin, Professor Godwin has worked with soil for many years and has a wealth of knowledge and experience in how UK soils work. He outlined the importance of looking after compaction and drainage along with the effects of tillage and organic matter also showing how much damage is done to the soil by field harvest traffic.

The third presentation was given by Bill Petrie, Mr Petrie has worked within the fertiliser industry most of his working career. His presentation concentrated on the benefits of combine drilling and the need to use a starter fertiliser. He dispelled farmers concerns that combine drilling can scorch the seed by explaining that tests have proved it is the mix of high quantities of Nitrogen and Potassium that causes the scorching and it is the importance of Phosphate that is needed for young seedlings not Potassium.

After the luncheon interval Andrew Manfield was the fourth speaker of the day. Mr Manfield is a farmer and has been a big advocate of CTF (Controlled Traffic Farming). He outlined out how the system works on his farm and that it doesn’t have to be a large investment in to new machinery to get the benefits, you can start to see benefits of reduced compaction just paying attention to how you work a field by changing headlands you start from etc.

To close the event Michael Horsch chaired  an open question and answer session which created some good questions to the speakers and kept all the delegates attention so much so, that the event over run by half an hour.