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Enduramaxx Tank Range Extensions
If you’re familiar with our range of plastic water tanks, water storage tanks and rainwater tanks then you might be pleased to hear that our range has been extended even further. Our vertical water tank range now includes a new 2000 litre tank. 1200mm dia by 2100 mm high, this tank is an ideal rainwater tank and potable water tank. Like most Enduramaxx tanks, this rainwater tank is made ...
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Rainwater Tanks and Water Storage Tanks Help Beat Climate Change
There is an increasing pressure and responsibility for not only individuals, but for businesses spanning all sectors (not just farming) to become greener and to join the fight against climate change. One such method of conserving energy is through the implementation of rainwater harvesting techniques. Enduramaxx has traditionally helped farmers and those managing open spaces to implement ...
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Rainwater Harvesting Tanks Protect Against Uncertain Rainfall
The BBC examined this week how climate change is an issue affecting farming and food supplies throughout the world. Rainfall is not as predictable in modern times and drier weather can interfere with growing seasons. Enduramaxx has discussed on numerous occasions how, on top of the drier weather, water restrictions are also an increasingly worrying part of farming and water supplies. Whether the ...
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Northern Ireland Water Supply Problems – Vertical and Horizontal Rainwater Tanks
It’s a topic that just doesn’t seem to go away, and that’s water supplies in farming. As reported by Farming Life, just before Christmas, Northern Ireland farmers feared water supply problems as Northern Ireland Water planned industrial action by hundreds of workers over a pension dispute. Northern Ireland Water, a state owned company, issued a statement declaring that it could ...
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Northern Ireland Water Supply Problems – Vertical and Horizontal Rainwater Tanks
It’s a topic that just doesn’t seem to go away, and that’s water supplies in farming. As reported by Farming Life, just before Christmas, Northern Ireland farmers feared water supply problems as Northern Ireland Water planned industrial action by hundreds of workers over a pension dispute. Northern Ireland Water, a state owned company, issued a statement declaring that it could ...
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Farmers Urge Cameron To Tackle Climate Change – Rainwater Tanks to Collect Free Water
According to the Western Morning News, campaigners, including some farmers, are urging David Cameron to take action at next week’s climate change summit in New York, following widespread flooding and storms that have battered the Westcountry and Somerset earlier in the year. A number of charities back the campaigners, including Christian Aid, Greenpeace, the National Trust, the ...
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Plastic Rainwater Tanks to Counter Water Abstraction Limits
Water was high on the agenda at this year’s Cereals event. As reported by Farmers Weekly, speaking at an Oxford Farming Conference-organised seminar at the event, Andrew Blenkiron, manager of the Euston Estate, Thetford, echoed the concerns of many over the water abstraction limits suggested by Defra and the Environmental Agency. The water extraction limits on the volume of water that ...
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Farming Best Practice For Water Management – Consider Vertical and Horizontal Rainwater Tanks
Recently, The Environment Agency (EA) worked in conjunction with the NFU and DEFRA to produce a simple, consistent set of actions to help farmers to manage water more efficiently and these included: > Improve and protect water quality > Secure water sources > Adapt to a changing climate > Reduce flood risk Although this list is non-exhaustive, the points are a mix of key ...
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Bigger is Better – UK’s Largest Rotationally Moulded Polyethylene Water Tank
We pride ourselves as a forward-thinking company and our products are both innovative and hard-wearing. This month we launch the UK’s largest rotationally-moulded polyethylene water tank, enabling farmers to store up to 30,000 litres or water in optimum conditions. The water tanks are made using one piece of rotationally-moulded UV-stabilised polyethylene. The result is a very hard-wearing ...
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Norfolk and Suffolk Farmers Water Worry – Rainwater Tanks Can Help
Farmers growing irrigated crops in Norfolk and Suffolk are taking steps to protect their businesses from drought, according to the Lynn News. A survey carried out by the NFU reveals that farmers throughout the region are investing in new irrigation equipment, improving water efficiency, changing crops they grow, or investing in more reservoir capacity. Their actions come after half of the ...
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Growers Face Water License Regime – Rainwater Harvesting Tanks Can Ease Pressure
Funded by the Environment Agency, the WATERR project has recently presented research findings indicating that growers throughout Kent are increasing their trickle irrigation water usage and that substrate grown crops, which use efficient trickle irrigation techniques, topped the average water use by crops in the three project years or 2011, 2012 and 2013. Substrate strawberries used 2,495 cubic ...
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Boreholes, Springs and Rainwater Tanks to Tackle Rising Water Costs
Again, we read about the importance of water in dairy farming in this week’s Farmers Guardian. Katie Jones writes that water costs are being controlled on one farm in Devon through utilising spring water on the unit. Located just North of Plymouth, despite farming in an area home to the longest stretch of coastline and with seemingly high levels of rainfall, the South of England still has ...
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Farm Incomes Fall – Bad Weather and High Costs Blamed – Rainwater Tanks A Bonus
According to Western Morning News, farm incomes have fallen and a combination of bad weather and high costs are blamed. The report refers to figures from the latest farm income statistics released last week that cover the last twelve months to February 2014. According to the figures, farm business income is falling on cereals, general cropping, and mixed and grazing livestock farms. However, ...
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Collaboration to Manage UK Water Supplies – Rainwater Tanks an Option
Water is a hot topic in farming at the best of times. But add one of history’s wettest winters, one of the driest summers in recent years, and also the threat of impending water rate increases, and it’s no surprise that managing this precious resource in farming is on the tip of most farming journalist’s tongues. This is certainly the case for Caroline Stocks in Farmers ...
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Rainwater Tanks Could Ease The Water Crisis
The Guardian reports this week that ‘The fabric of our society is threatened by our mismanagement of water’. According to Jacob Tompkins, there is a global water crisis unfolding. From floods in the Balkans to drought in California. With 780 million people lacking access to clean water and with China declaring in 2013 that it was moving to importing rather than growing its own food ...
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CEREALS Meets Enduramaxx – Plastic Water Tanks and Sprayers on Display
Each year, Enduramaxx provides farmers and growers with the tools they need to make the very best of agricultural liquids, chemicals and rainwater. The company has made its name over the years through the manufacturing and supplying of high quality horizontal and vertical storage tanks and market leading ATV sprayers. Of the 26,000-plus visitors expected at this years CEREAL the Arable Event, ...
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Vital Irrigation Supplies and Water Storage Tanks
Once more, farmers have expressed that a review of abstraction licenses and incentives for reservoir building should be high on the new government’s agenda, according to Easter Daily Press. Water is of course one of farming’s most vital natural resources, yet its availability is being increasingly governed by an unpredictable climate and demand from a growing population. One of the ...
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Poultry Farmer Grants For Rainwater Harvesting Tanks
Farmers Weekly reports this week on grant streams available to the UK’s poultry farming industry. A new £5m fund which forms part of Defra’s new £141m Countryside Productivity Scheme is designed to help farmers access the best technology and improve productivity. Small grants of between £2,500 and £35,000, along with large grants of up to £1m are ...
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Farmers Facing Water Restrictions – More Plastic Water Tank Solutions
Farmers in the South of England could be facing immediate restrictions on water, according to Farmer’s Weekly, even though May presented itself as the wettest month for two years. After a recent National Farmers Union water resource group meeting with the Environmental Agency, questions have been raised on the sense of European Farming rules, in particular, the Water Framework Directive, ...
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Controlling Weather Extremes – Turning Rainfall to an Advantage
Shropshire and the surrounding areas are well known to experience seasonal flooding, according to the Shropshire Star. Whilst wet ground conditions can be a burden, triggering increased costs, lower output and extra work, the advantages of rainfall certainly outweigh the opposite extreme of the weather spectrum. Shaun Jones, rural professional director of Halls, Shrewsbury, explained that ...
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