Growth reported at STIHL
18 May 2012
STIHL has reported 10.8 per cent growth in 2011 with a record turnover of EUR2.6bn.
Garden centres demand too much margin to be able to sell innovative products, according to the designer of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show product of the year winner Harrod Horticultural's Slot&Lock Framework Building System.
STIHL has reported 10.8 per cent growth in 2011 with a record turnover of EUR2.6bn.
Growing crops under LEDs "means you can put a facility down in the middle of a town and grow crops right where you need them", according to Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) chief executive Graham Ward.
BlightCast weather forecasting access gives growers an opportunity to apply pesticide treatment.
Ransomes Jacobsen has signed a deal with Canadian firm DSG Tag Systems to sell its TAG-150 fleet-management and tracking system in the UK.
Beverley Racecourse in East Yorkshire has switched from using external contractors for turf aeration to buying new kit and doing the job in-house.
A robot has joined the grounds staff at Forest Green Rovers to save time-wasting on the pitch in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
Wickes parent company Travis Perkins saw group revenue rise 4.4 per cent in the four months to 30 April, boosted by the acquisition in January of Toolstation, a smaller UK rival.
Kent top-fruit grower Moor Organics used last week's East Kent Fruit Society blossom walk to show off its Italian-made Ladurner tractor-mounted mechanical weeder, which the firm said allows it to keep on top of weeds without the need for using herbicides.
A number of Britain's leading crop-sprayer manufacturers will show a two-nozzle pesticide container rinsing system at the Cereals Event 2012 (Boothby Graffoe, 13-14 June), where farmers and growers can try it on the Hypro-EU stand.



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