Summary of newspapers of the previous days - 2.7. – 4.7. 2010

Farmers test new plough which should help them to significantly save

Czech producer of agricultural machinery Strom placed a new plough on the market this year which should bring farmers considerable savings. So called chisel plough can plough deep as many as 55 centimeters and it is much easier to manoeuvre with which can be used mainly in hop gardens but also on rape fields. Hop growers promise from the new method that it will save tens of percents of costs in growths regenerations because it manages a work of several machines at once.

Updating was made in land register in layer for land highly endangered by erosion

On the 1st of July, 2010, owing to a specification, a layer for land highly endangered by erosion (SEO land) was updated in the land register. It replaced a layer of SEO land used from the 1st of January this year. From January 1, 2010 ten adjusted and enlarged standards of Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) are hold. On areas marked as land highly endangered by erosion a farmer has to secure that wide-row crops will not be grown there and growth of cereals and oil rape will be grounded with use of soil-protective technologies, especially by sowing in mulch or sowing without tillage (GAEC 2)

Poultry in EU have certain restrictions

Trading among the member states is relatively simple because all products of animal production, i.e. also poultry and poultry meat, have to conform to conditions given by the EU veterinary legislative. A similar situation is in case of products from non-member states. The meeting of requirements of these conditions is checked on border veterinary stations in outside EU borders. Moreover, it can be stated that animal products from third countries can be imported into the EU only if the sending third country is registered in a list of third countries from which the import of the given product is allowed, and the premises from which the product was sent is approved for such an import.

Height of growth influence optimal use of pasture

For an optimal use of grazing growth, its accessibility for grazing animals and amount of leaves on plants creating the growth are important. If the grazing growth is high so that is easily accessible for fattened meat cattle, the total time of grazing shortens and a smaller area of pasture is needed for fattening. These are results of American and New Zealand research participated in by experts from American Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and New Zealand DairyNZ.