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2012-May-16
Producers who pay more attention to market demands and seek ways innovate will be able to ride out the challenges and unlock the potential of the pig, poultry meat and egg sectors, visitors to the 2012 British Pig and Poultry Fair have been told.
2012-May-16
Belted Galloway cattle lovers will have a unique opportunity to buy into some of the country’s finest bloodlines at the Whitepool Dispersal sale at Worcester on Saturday 26 May.
2012-May-15
Members of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) have been presented with Awards in recognition of their contributions to the landbased sector at the Institution’s annual conference at RASE, Stoneleigh.
2012-May-15
The May meeting of the Northumberland Monitor Farm will focus on sheep with Senior Sheep Consultant for the Scottish Agricultural College, John Vipond as keynote speaker.
2012-May-15
Holmer has introduced a new high performance scalper for Terra Dos T3 harvesters, developed to improve whole beet crowning, and reduce waste and running costs.
2012-May-15
Charolais met an insatiable demand from a packed ringside selling to a top of 20,000gns and 102 bulls sold for a record average of £5,147.
2012-May-14
Barenbrug has launched the Hunters range of game cover, conservation and forage crop mixtures.
2012-May-14
The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has just launched the second round of the Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme (FFIS).
2012-May-14
Sheep farmers and shepherds visiting NSA Sheep 2012 will be able to brush up on a variety of technical skills at a series of working demonstrations designed to help visitors improve their skills at the industry’s biennial event.
2012-May-14
Pig producers heard about the importance of feedstock supply for anaerobic digestion (AD) at an open day on James Hart’s farm in Gloucestershire.
2012-May-11
Increasing demand for sites for Anaerobic Digestion plants could see farmers and landowners across the country being approached by developers looking to build a plant on their land - providing the farmer with a significant rental income.
2012-May-11
All things British are coming to the fore in this Jubilee and Olympic year and one of the hottest bloodlines for the UK dairy cattle breeder to acquire is fittingly named Woodmarsh Olympian.
2012-May-11
Two breeding companies have achieved an industry landmark by launching Holstein bulls into their daughter-proven line-up that were previously sold by the companies as young genomic sires.
2012-May-11
The latest Aber High Sugar Grass AberGain enters the industry’s independent Herbage Varieties Guide with a Grazing Yield of 109% - highest of all recommended perennial ryegrasses.
2012-May-10
The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward 44 prime cattle, 2 young bulls, 25 over thirty month cattle, 85 spring lambs, 5,014 prime hoggs and 4,316 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 10th May 2012.
2012-May-10
Escalating fears of a deepening euro zone debt crisis (Spanish banks) amid political uncertainty in Greece dragged the Euro to a three-month low and pressured equity and commodity markets.
2012-May-10
A virtual clearance and increased averages from a record entry emphasised the demand for both breeders’ and commercial Dorset sheep at the annual May Fair at Exeter Livestock Centre on Wednesday May 9.
2012-May-10
The new Case IH Farmall 95U, 105U and 115U Efficient Power tractors can be seen by visitors to the Grassland UK and FTMTA Grassland events.
2012-May-10
World leading Holstein bull Toystory has smashed his second world record as he produces his two millionth dose of frozen semen. And at just 11 years old, dairy farmers look set to benefit from his genetics for many years to come.
2012-May-10
New research at the University of Nottingham has shown that new generation SDHI fungicide Seguris is able to increase the efficiency of a key part of the photosynthetic pathway in wheat in the absence of noticeable disease.
2012-May-10
The new seven-strong Farmall A range will makes its debut to UK and Irish customers at the respective grassland events. The range extends from the 55hp Farmall 55A to the 115hp Farmall 115A tractor.
2012-May-09
EBLEX is leading a mission of lamb exporters to Montreal and Toronto this week in a visit jointly organised with UK Trade and Investment.
2012-May-09
A County Durham farmer is leading the field in providing young people with the chance to learn about life down on the farm.
2012-May-08
Farmers in the Trout Beck area near Dufton in the Eden Valley are working hard to protect this lovely river which is important for its good populations of trout, salmon and other wildlife.
2012-May-08
Colin Boocock, who runs beef cattle and sheep on 94 acres at Moorsholm near Saltburn, North Yorkshire, regards his new tractor as a very significant investment.
2012-May-08
A group from the Romanian region of Transylvania will be seeing at first hand this month the flower-rich hay meadows of the North Pennines, meeting some of the people that manage them and finding out more about the work of the AONB Partnership’s Hay Time project.
2012-May-08
Market prices for breeding stock and lambs are high and look like they will remain so for the foreseeable future according to Sandy Hay, Head of Agriculture for Bank of Scotland and the event sponsor.
2012-May-08
A new ‘intelligent’ system which will automatically chlorinate and make drinking water safe for all animals has been launched.
2012-May-07
Since 28 April, Claas and Horsch have jointly held the world record in the precision drilling of maize. Inside 24 hours, a total area of 448.29 hectares was tilled and fertilised simultaneously by means of a Xerion 5000 and a Maestro 24.70 SW single-grain seed drill.
2012-May-04
The new owners of a British-built range of field equipment for potato and root crops promise to raise engineering standards and shorten production lead times by applying the skills developed in their successful automotive engineering business.
2012-May-03
The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart PLC had forward 50 prime cattle, 4 young bulls, 30 over thirty month cattle, 21 spring lambs, 4,837 prime hoggs and 3,543 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 3rd May 2012.
2012-May-03
The anti-GM lobby group “Take the Flour Back” has asserted that the Rothamsted GM wheat trial poses a “contamination” threat to the local environment – and to the UK wheat industry.
2012-May-03
A revolutionary ‘energy neutral’ eco house which will produce its own electricity and sell the excess it creates back into the grid has been granted planning permission.
2012-May-03
Attracting the best young talent into agriculture was identified as a priority at a food and farming industry forum jointly hosted by Lloyds TSB Agriculture and its farming ambassador Adam Henson.
2012-May-03
The 27 acres of Land at Soulby, Crosby Garrett near Kirby Stephen sold for over £9,000 per acre at a total of £265,000 to a local buyer. This was well in excess of the guide price.
2012-May-02
The Zetor Forterra 135 model with its new 16 valve engine is not only valued by experts but also users.
2012-May-02
Simmental bulls reached a ceiling of 4,200gns at this week’s export show and sale, hosted by the Northern Ireland Simmental Cattle Breeders’ Club at Dungannon Farmers’ Mart.
2012-May-02
The foremost breeding sheep show and sale of the season at Skipton Auction Mart attracted a total turnout of 1,530 Mule and Continental-cross hoggs with lambs at foot, and Mule geld hoggs.
2012-May-02
Buyers from Germany, Austria, Romania and Switzerland snapped up the leading lots at the first-ever sale of imported UK-bred Aberdeen-Angus at Wertingen, Bavaria.
2012-May-01
NFU Scotland and EU’s northern Member States meet to discuss ways in which the next Common Agricultural Policy can meet higher environmental standards and still deliver on food production and rural economic growth.
2012-May-01
Amazone Ltd will adopt the theme ‘more in-field efficiency’ at the forthcoming Cereals 2012 Show at Boothby Graffoe, Lincoln.
2012-May-01
Thousands of visitors from all over the world are expected to travel to the Vale of Glamorgan in September for the 2012 International Sheep Dog Trials.
2012-May-01
Beef Shorthorn females sold to 3,100gns at the Beef Shorthorn Society’s official sale at Chelford on Saturday 28 April.
2012-Apr-30
ARGO Tractors SpA achieved a 16% increase in sales revenues in 2011 as greater demand for its Landini, McCormick and Valpadana products was met by an 18% uplift in production volume.
2012-Apr-30
Craven Cattle Marts is to run its second annual open charity sheep dog trials on Thursday, May 17 – and the 70-strong entries limit has already been met.
2012-Apr-30
With the maize drilling season in full swing, and fresh in everyone’s mind, now is the ideal time to come and speak to the experts about precision seeding.
2012-Apr-27
This year started well for the Zetor Group, the traditional Czech manufacturer of agricultural machinery – in the first quarter it reported revenues of over 1 billion CZK.
2012-Apr-27
Dairy producers could improve rumen health of their cows by feeding high fibre grass with easily digestible cell walls suggested Johnny Bax, international technical support manager for Biotal.
2012-Apr-27
One of the leading scientists responsible for shaping the livestock industry's feed and nutrition decisions has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to animal research.
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