CEREALS PROMISES NEW FEATURES

The organisers of June's Cereals say visitors will be able to enjoy established attractions alongside new features at this year’s event.

New additions for 2022 include a demo area for machinery and kit that qualifies for the Improving Farm Productivity grant scheme, Crop to Kitchen which will showcase arable farmers selling direct to consumers, and a curated version of the winter wheat and barley RL .
 
The Improving Farm Productivity grant scheme covers up to 40% of the costs for slurry treatment and robotics and innovation equipment. Such kit, including for robotic weeding and harvesting, will be on show in the dedicated demo area.
 
The Direct Drill Arena will be expanded for 2022 to include a full arena with amplified AV and presentation. Demonstrators will showcase and discuss the benefits of their technology and offer sustainable solutions for farmers. Aitchison, Amazone, Claydon, Horizon, Horsch, John Deere, Kuhn and Mzuri will be among the exhibitors demonstrating in this area.
 
Among the regular features are the crop plots, both breeder variety plots and agronomy trial plots - with companies such as Bayer, Corteva, KWS and Senova/Just Oats back this year. The NIAB Soil Hole is returning and the Syngenta Sprays and Sprayers arena will be centre stage.
 
As well as inter-row weeding demos, this year there are also plans to have in-row weeding demos. Visitors will be able to see working demo plots from Agxeed, Claydon, Horizon, J. Brock, Kuhn, Mzuri, New Holland and TWB Engineering.
 
The Cereals Event will be held near Duxford, Cambridgeshire on 8-9 June 2022.