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Agricultural, Environmental, Countryside and Farming News from the UK and beyond.
| 2013-Sep-30 |
A photograph taken by a farmer’s wife from Ings has been voted as the best depiction of rural Cumbria at work.
| 2013-Sep-30 |
Recent figures suggest pneumonia is the UK cattle industry’s most expensive disease, costing an estimated £50 million per year in treatment, loss of performance and mortality.
| 2013-Sep-30 |
Successful machinery over 130 years of company history - This excellent book lays out the development of Amazone machinery over the last 130 years.
| 2013-Sep-30 |
Harrison and Hetherington have announced that they are to conduct one the UK’s largest sales of Holstein & British Friesian bulls that has been seen for many years.
| 2013-Sep-30 |
Rumenco has strengthened its dairy sector expertise with the appointment of milking hygiene specialist Alison Clark to manage the company’s entry into the UK and overseas dairy chemical markets.
| 2013-Sep-30 |
Weeds will compete with any crop for water and nutrients and in oilseed rape this will result in problems at harvest, seed contamination and resultant yield loss.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
Visitors attending The Dairy Show 2013 at the Bath & West Show Ground can collect a copy of Bullsemen.com’s latest brochure, which includes 6 of our top selling bulls from 2013.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
Organic dairy farmers Merfyn and Beryl Edwards buys HJR Agri’s 100th new McCormick tractor and will raise a glass to their local tractor dealer following a presentation to celebrate a sales landmark.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
Wider use of already-existing best practices and technologies could significantly help sector reduce outputs of global warming gases.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
There were bidders all day at the ringside at Carlisle with a firm trade for the females and one of the best trades seen for the rams.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
Farmers are being urged to correctly worm farm dogs to help sheep reach target specifications and reduce the number of carcase rejections from processors which cost the industry millions of pounds.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
Barnard Castle based S&A Fabrications has recently completed the new £1.4 million, 50,000sq ft development at Cannon Hall Farm - the award-winning farm and tourist attraction near Barnsley.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
Winter barley growers, as well as growers of winter wheat and oats, are being urged to be on their guard for aphids that transmit barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) infection, following the early start to drilling this autumn.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
At the fourteenth Annual General Meeting of the National Beef Association, the current chairman, Hamish McBean stood down on rotation rules. He has been succeeded by David Thomlinson.
| 2013-Sep-27 |
The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart PLC had forward 50 prime cattle, 18 young bulls, 25 over thirty month cattle, 3,902 prime lambs and 6,739 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 26th September 2013.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
UK Grain, now in its seventh year, takes place on 6 November at 2013 the Peterborough Arena.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
The EU Council and Parliament’s late-night political agreement on outstanding budgetary issues is a major step towards finalising CAP reform, and the Commission must now publish its implementation proposals as a matter of urgency, says NFUS.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
Sales of robotic milkers are rocketing, with more and more farmers seeking to improve cow welfare and productivity, while cutting back on labour.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
Records were broken at Roscommon on Saturday 21st September when Clive Wardrop, Portarlington sold his 1st prize shearling Lleyn ram for €1720 to Wayne Carter, Ballyroan.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
Kilkeel beef, sheep and cereals farmer James Henderson, is the new vice chairman of Strangford Down Lamb Producers Group.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
With more than 300 head of cattle to feed during the cold Cumbria winter, dairy farmer Brian Nelson needed a silage crop he could rely on.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
John Fawcett, of Dalehead Farm, Barden, presented the champion pen of ten lambs at the second annual ewe lamb show and sale for members of the North of England Mule Sheep Association at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
Winter servicing of combine harvesters by an approved dealer with the experience, knowledge and equipment to do the job correctly and efficiently will pay for itself through increased performance, reliability and lower operating costs, according to Case IH.
| 2013-Sep-25 |
The government of Norway has pledged $23.7 million to conserve and sustainably manage the world's most important food crops, citing the critical need for crop diversity at a time when populations are soaring and climate change is threatening staples like rice and maize.
| 2013-Sep-24 |
Agrii recently held a sprayer demonstration day at Rumgally Farm, Cupar, Fife, courtesy of Mr G Harley and, for their invited audience, there was an impressive show put on with a line-up of around a dozen self-propelled sprayers in the field.
| 2013-Sep-24 |
Beltex shearling tups met a steady demand selling to a top of 2,500gns at the Beltex Scotland club sale staged at Lanark on Thursday 19 September.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
Scotland’s Rural College vets are warning farmers about a rise in the incidence of Blackleg in cattle particularly in the Caithness area.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
Calderdale’s Spiros Spyrou reigned supreme and also secured top price honours at the 32nd annual two-day show and sale of pedigree rams and females staged by Northern Area Texel Sheep Breeders Association at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
DLF-Trifolium is spending £3 million on a new 4,000m2 (43,000ft2) grass seed mixing facility and distribution centre just outside Edinburgh.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
Twose has unveiled a range of grassland and arable subsoilers with working widths from 2.5m to 3.0m.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
NFU Scotland has welcomed confirmation from Scottish Government that the potential funding gap between existing EU schemes and new arrangements in 2015 will be bridged.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
Engineer, Doctor and Dairy Farmer are not normally spoken in the same sentence, but are very much equals. Not necessarily by pay scale, but in their ability to access leading global technologies.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
EDA welcomes the research paper by Prof. Dr Holger D. Thiele, Dipl. Ing. Erhard Richarts, Dr. Henrike Burchardi on ‘Economic Analysis of EU Dairy Sector Development beyond 2015: Trade, Exports and World Market Integration’ that was presented at the Dairy Conference 2013.
| 2013-Sep-23 |
Increasingly we are being met by landowners, document in hand, asking, ‘should I sign this?’ They are the lucky ones; they bothered to take advice.” says Julie Liddle, Director of H&H Land and Property.
| 2013-Sep-20 |
New Holland has launched its online community dedicated to the agricultural world, www.mynewholland.com. Open to all farmers and everyone with an interest in farming.
| 2013-Sep-20 |
Pure-bred Texel gimmer lambs from David Towell proved the pick of the Continental show entries at the annual mid-September store lamb fixture at CCM Skipton.
| 2013-Sep-20 |
Quality milking heifers attracted a buoyant trade selling to a top 2,520gns at Holstein NI’s first show and sale of the autumn season.
| 2013-Sep-20 |
Skipton Auction Mart is opening up an additional option for Dalesbred sheep breeders by adding a new sales section for Dales Mules at its high profile annual gimmer lamb show and sale day, on Tuesday, October 8.
| 2013-Sep-20 |
The new Keenan MF380 Mixer Wagon will be launched at the Irish National Ploughing Championships.
| 2013-Sep-19 |
| 2013-Sep-18 |
Charollais sheep breeders took centre stage at CCM Skipton for the British Charollais Sheep Society’s annual show and sale of commercial rams.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
Following the loss of a skid steer loader to thieves, Hall Farm near Reading has recently taken delivery of a Kramer mini telehandler to carry out a multitude of tasks.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
Prize shows for Mule and Texel pens of ten were on the agenda at CCM Skipton’s second annual gimmer shearling fixture.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
Tremendous genetic progress has been made in improving growth rates and the sheep and cattle bred today are different to those bred 15-20 years ago.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
Businesses are queuing up to adopt the Yorkshire Dales National Park logo to help boost their trade.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
SCOPS urges sheep farmers to take a 'buyer beware' approach when purchasing replacements to protect their flocks this autumn.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
CLA members from throughout Cumbria came together at the historic Lowther Castle for the Annual General Meeting of the Cumbria branch.
| 2013-Sep-18 |
Three young veterinary students have been short-listed for a prestigious new award, which will be presented at the Dairy Show next month.
| 2013-Sep-17 |
Is it feasible that agriculture should step back one hundred years to try and regain a little of the romanticism that seems to have embraced harvest time?
| 2013-Sep-17 |
Britain’s smallest breed of cattle - the Dexter, has once again attracted a big entry for the fourth show and sale at the Rare, Minority and Traditional Breeds Sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle, on Saturday September 21.
| 2013-Sep-16 |
Walford and North Shropshire College will be opening its doors to the public on Sunday 22nd September, with visitors able to view the farm’s new milking and cow housing facilities.
| 2013-Sep-16 |
Spending a few minutes checking combine tyres after harvest and preparing them correctly prior to the machine being stored away for winter could save farmers thousands of Pounds in unnecessary replacement costs next year.
| 2013-Sep-16 |
International experts recommend vigilance and promote targeted surveillance, market restructuring to fight H7N9, H5N1 and other threats.
| 2013-Sep-16 |
All the character of the new Lamborghini Nitro is now available in a VRT version.
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| 2013-Sep-16 |
Bunn Fertiliser Limited has introduced two new nitrogen sulphur blend fertilisers based on its successful Koch Advanced Nitrogen fertiliser.
| 2013-Sep-16 |
Public consultation begins on Monday (September 16) on a range of options that will shape the way planning decisions are made in the Yorkshire Dales National Park for the next 15 years.
| 2013-Sep-16 |
On 2 September 2013, 34 young people started their training at AGCO/Fendt.
| 2013-Sep-13 |
Research by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) which measured cows’ behaviour by fitting them with high-tech ‘pedometers’ has won an international science award.
| 2013-Sep-13 |
Reflecting the growing popularity of crossover utility vehicles, John Deere’s latest heavy-duty Gator line-up features two new four-wheel drive models, the fast and powerful XUV 825i plus the four-passenger XUV 855D S4.
| 2013-Sep-13 |
The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also wreaking significant harm on the natural resources that humanity relies upon to feed itself, says a new FAO report.
| 2013-Sep-13 |
Winter wheat growers looking to spread next year’s harvest workloads and risks should consider planting varieties with a range of different maturities this autumn, urges crop team agronomist, James Evans, of Syngenta.
| 2013-Sep-13 |
UPM Tilhill is celebrating after learning that its work with the Institute of Chartered Foresters has helped to secure a £400,000 funding package from the Government through the UK Commission for Employment and Skills Employer Ownership Pilot.
| 2013-Sep-13 |
The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward 86 prime cattle, 12 young bulls, 23 over thirty month cattle, 3,279 prime lambs and 6,107 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 12th September 2013.
| 2013-Sep-12 |
Barnsford Ferny has been described as ‘a spectacle of an animal’ and that took this year’s Royal Welsh Show by storm, is now being marketed by Cogent as part of the Signature Beef range.
| 2013-Sep-11 |
The RSPB nature reserve at Berney Marshes, Norfolk, is the latest satisfied New Holland customer taking delivery of a T6.140 tractor this month.
| 2013-Sep-11 |
Farmers’ work to protect the English countryside faces a massive threat following the revelation that environmental payments are likely to be halted for a year.
| 2013-Sep-11 |
A pair of Massey Ferguson tractors is helping specialist Anglesey sea-farming business.
| 2013-Sep-11 |
A new £2 million state-of-the-art dairy farm at the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences at Langford was officially opened by farmer and BBC One Countryfile presenter, Adam Henson.
| 2013-Sep-11 |
The Smearsett flock of North Craven’s WA&A Booth achieved a memorable championship double at the opening ewe lamb show and sale for members of the North of England Mule Sheep Association at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2013-Sep-10 |
Beltex sheep met a strong commercial demand peaking at 1,700gns in Worcester on Friday 6 September at the breed society’s annual show and sale.
| 2013-Sep-09 |
A leading satellite broadband provider has stepped in to guarantee broadband services to homes facing the end of their BT dial-up service.
| 2013-Sep-09 |
Local breeder Karen Shuttleworth clinched supreme championship honours at the Beltex Sheep Society’s 13th annual show and sale of pedigree rams and females at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2013-Sep-09 |
Farmer Neil Fettes is the man whose grass really is always greener! So much so that nearby farmers commented as such as they cast an envious eye over his field of lush green grass.
| 2013-Sep-09 |
A better-than-expected corn (maize) harvest in the United States will put downward pressure on UK wheat prices, which could fall by £10 per tonne in the short-term, according to ODA UK.
| 2013-Sep-09 |
A money saving innovation for dairy farmers on show during the National Ploughing Championships is the PipeFeeder exhibited by Dutch company Hanskamp AgroTech.
| 2013-Sep-09 |
A national centre for poultry health and welfare was officially opened today by the Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
The commercial buyers were out in force for Lleyn shearling ewes and the rams at Ross on Wye on Thursday 5th September 2013.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
A fleet of 13 new 140hp, four-wheel-drive Claas Arion 610C tractors have had their original factory-fit tyres replaced with Mitas row-crop tyres before being delivered to Cornwall’s leading vegetable grower and packer.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
A Jubilee woodland project in Leicestershire that involves planting around 275,000 trees is now two thirds complete with the remaining work scheduled to be finished by the end of 2015.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
Deutz-Fahr is set to launch a new range of combine harvesters for the 2014 season.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
The FAO Food Price Index dropped for the fourth month in a row in August reaching its lowest level since June 2012.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
The National Office of Animal Health has released two films to help industry and consumers understand issues surrounding the use of animal medicines in the food chain.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
AtlasFram and ADM Milling work in partnership to ship wheat from East Anglia to Scotland.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
Masham wether lambs took their turn in the show area, as CCM Skipton’s peak sheep sale season continued apace.
| 2013-Sep-06 |
The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward 77 prime cattle, 2 young bulls, 45 over thirty month cattle, 3,210 prime lambs and 5,686 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 5th September 2013.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
At the sale of Lleyn Sheep at Ruthin on Monday 2nd September, a firm trade was seen in the female section with strong commercial demand for rams.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
It’s Ladies Day in Carlisle later this month when the cream of the UK’s pedigree Simmental heifers will be going under the hammer.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
Farm shops are being urged to join the Quality Standard Mark (QSM) to access a range of free resources to market their beef and lamb.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
A top ram breeder is calling for a little more respect for the ‘farmer’s eye’ in selecting tups, so that commercial breeders can take a balanced approach towards great opportunities in the lamb trade.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
The National Sheep Association (NSA) is extremely alarmed by recent comments from campaigner George Monbiot that iconic areas of the UK have been ‘sheep-wrecked’.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
Dunbia has renewed its export marketing arrangement with Beltex this month offering a bonus of up to 50p/kg throughout the 2013/14 season on selected lambs destined for top end mainland European markets.
| 2013-Sep-04 |
John Deere’s longstanding eastern counties dealership Ben Burgess & Co Ltd has taken over the trading activities of Anker of Coates, with effect from Sunday 1st September 2013.
| 2013-Sep-03 |
North Yorkshire Wensleydale pedigree sheep breeder Ernie Sherwin continued his successful run when presenting the supreme champion at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2013-Sep-03 |
CCM Skipton’s annual Rare & Native Stock Breeders Auctions of rare, minority and traditional breeds of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs attracted a bumper turnout of 718 native and rare breed sheep, 164 store and breeding cattle, 38 goats, nine pigs and two mares with foals at foot.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
The Welsh-based Pentrenant flock of Jean Price in Churchstoke, Powys, secured back-to-back championship successes at the Northern Area Jacob Sheep Breeders’ 38th annual show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
Rabbitt Tractors at Ballydavid, Athenry has been appointed as a main dealer for the Case IH range of agricultural equipment in Galway and Roscommon.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
The flukicide drench ZANIL® has been re-introduced into Great Britain by MSD Animal Health as a treatment against chronic liver fluke in cattle and sheep.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
A two-times national poultry champion headed the pecking order with a pair of White Wyandotte bantams at the Craven Feather Auctions summer show and sale of poultry and waterfowl.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
Sam Chesney of Kircubbin, Co Down hosts a farm walk next Tuesday, September 10th examining the role of synchronisation and Artificial Insemination in getting suckler heifers in calf earlier.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
Cogent Limited, has today announced the restructuring of its business to fully integrate the Cogent Breeding, Dairy Daughters and World Wide Sires UK businesses.
| 2013-Sep-02 |
The addition of Fibertek from Harbro to the TMR at Flashbrook Manor Farm, Newport, Staffordshire has resulted in improved feed utilisation and a one litre increase in daily milk yield.
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