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NOVEMBER 2010
Anglia Farmer
Funding secured to expand GPS network
AN innovative GPS precision farming network is set to increase coverage to 160,000ha within two years, opening up opportunities for over 2,000 East Anglian farmers....
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NOVEMBER 2010
Farmers Guardian
RTK network plans to cater for 2,000 farmers
RTK Farming, an RTK (Real Time Kinetic) GPS network set-up by a group of farmers around Cambridge, is set to grow its coverage thanks to an East of England Development Agency (EEDA) grant which will meet 40 per cent of expansion costs...
NOVEMBER 2010
Farmers Weekly Interactive
Farmer-run RTK network expands
Farmer-run GPS precision farming network RTK Farming is set to increase its coverage to 160,000ha within two years, opening up opportunities for more than 2000 farmers from Suffolk to Bedfordshire to have ultra-precise GPS signals beamed to them...
OCTOBER 2010
Farm Business
Funding secured to expand farming GPS network
An innovative GPS precision farming network is set to increase coverage to 160,000 ha within two years, opening up opportunities for use by over 2,000 farmers from Suffolk across to Bedfordshire.
AUGUST 2010
The Farmers Guardian, Friday July 16th 2010
Farmers spread RTK signal cost to achieve group savings
A GROUP of south Cambridgeshire farmers is setting up its own network of fixed RTK base stations to allow subscribers to
achieve savings such a system offers, while spreading the setup costs between them.
The six founder members, who have formed RTK Farming and applied for Regional Development Agency funding, aim to provide an affordable signal for farmers in the area covered by base stations on each members’farm...
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Cambridge News, August 3rd 2010
Farmers looking for funding to help steer them in the right direction
A group of Cambridgeshire farmers are bidding for funding for technology which should significantly reduce carbon emissions and make crop growing vastly more efficient.
RTK Farming is investing in Precision Farming, a GPS-based system that not only allows tractors and combines to be steered automatically, but also controls attachments such as fertiliser spreaders and crop sprayers with far greater accuracy than hitherto...
AUGUST 2010
British Farmer & Grower
Farmers group switches on to precision farming
Farmers in south Cambridgeshire are moving ahead with plans to set up a major RTK guidance system.
RTK Farming Ltd was set up by five farmers working with NIAB, which already uses the GPS technology to improve the accuracy of its field trials...
AUGUST 2010
Crop Production Magazine
Joining together to justify RTK outlay
A group of Cambs farmers has joined forces to set-up their own ultra-accurate GPS network..
RTK (i.e. real-time kinematic) GPS guidance is renowned for its accuracy and immunity from satellite ‘drift’ –– providing the precision required to restore tramlines in exactly the same place each season....
AUGUST 2010
Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer
RTK Farming
Repeatable accuracy at an affordable price. Those are the main objectives of RTK Farming Ltd, a new company set up by five East Anglia farmers who between them farm some 10,000 acres in the region, cropping split primarily between combinable crops and sugar beet. Bayer and NIAB are also involved in the project...
