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Agricultural, Environmental, Countryside and Farming News from the UK and beyond.
| 2016-Jun-29 |
Earliness of maturity is an increasingly important attribute to oilseed rape, enabling farmers to spread the workload, free up storage and cash flow, and tackle blackgrass ahead of drilling wheat.
| 2016-Jun-29 |
Taking business advice and contingency planning is more important than ever in the uncertain post-EU referendum climate, rural accountant Old Mill has warned.
| 2016-Jun-29 |
Craven District Councillor Carl Lis has been elected to head the Authority for the third time, taking over from former barrister and circuit judge Peter Charlesworth.
| 2016-Jun-27 |
Investing in small woodlands is a popular and potentially lucrative way to make and save money.
| 2016-Jun-27 |
Big data study identifies cause for respiratory diseases in cattle.
| 2016-Jun-27 |
It was ladies day in the Texel classes at this year’s Royal Highland Show, with the overall championship going to the winner of the gimmer class and the reserve overall title taken by the winner of the aged ewe class.
| 2016-Jun-24 |
Almost 50 percent of Scotland’s iconic beef herd is likely to be enrolled into the ground-breaking Beef Efficiency Scheme for its first year.
| 2016-Jun-24 |
Kuhn Farm Machinery has upgraded its range of super-sized grass tedders, with its 13 and 17.2 metre machines both benefitting from a new chassis design and rotor lifting mechanism.
| 2016-Jun-24 |
To celebrate their 40th year in business, Harbro Limited aims to raise £40,000 for charities with a series of fundraising initiatives and events over the next 12 months.
| 2016-Jun-24 |
Silostop, worldwide developers of unique oxygen barrier films, is launching an eye-catching orange and black film SilostopMax aimed at eliminating surface spoilage on any silage clamp, at this year’s Livestock Event.
| 2016-Jun-24 |
Disentangling 43 years of engagement with the EU will be a monumental project, but it’s up to British businesses and advisers to seize the opportunity to shape the future.
| 2016-Jun-24 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 20 prime cattle & prime bulls, 915 prime hoggs, 1,971 spring lambs and 3,201 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 23rd June 2016.
| 2016-Jun-22 |
Falling milk production across the UK and Europe, a slight lift in dairy commodity auction prices and firmer spot markets for milk have produced the first glimmer of good news for Scottish dairy farmers in almost two years.
| 2016-Jun-22 |
It is with sadness and regret that the Derbyshire Agricultural & Horticultural Society announced the cancellation of the 137th Derbyshire County Show.
| 2016-Jun-22 |
There was a strong showing in the dairy ring at the Craven Dairy Auction at Skipton Auction Mart on Monday June 20.
| 2016-Jun-22 |
For the first time each day England's premier agricultural show will host speakers, including practitioners, to share best practice and inspire forward thinking producers to make the most of the changing world of the food chain.
| 2016-Jun-22 |
A land agent from Gloucestershire has won the Royal Agricultural Society’s prestigious Talbot Ponsonby prize by achieving top marks in the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers’ exams.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
A new company specialising in marketing dairy and beef semen has been launched, promising to shorten the supply chain by selling bulls direct from the stud and offering breeders the chance to profit from their own top genetic bulls.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
Livestock farmers facing reduced yields of first cut grass silage after this year’s cold spring should look to maximise the value of forthcoming cuts, in order to avoid shortfalls and the need to buy in extra feed this winter, a silage expert is urging.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
Parasitic nematode worms are the hidden enemy of farmers world-wide, causing billions of pounds worth of crop damage every year.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
An option for sheep farmers wanting access to cost-effective veterinary advice is to encourage their vet to get involved in a new Flock Health Clubs initiative, which has been launched across the UK, supported by the Sheep Veterinary Society and National Sheep Association.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
National Milk Laboratories is set to launch a new tool at this summer, to be featured on its stand at the Livestock Event, that will help producers to assess the risks of Johne’s disease infection and spread in their herd.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
Farmers are being urged to ensure they are properly insured ahead of the introduction of tougher new penalties for businesses convicted of corporate manslaughter and other health and safety offences.
| 2016-Jun-20 |
Jonathan Henry has been appointed the new managing director of John Deere Limited in the UK and Ireland. He takes over the role on 1 July 2016 from Antony Scott, who has elected to retire after 40 years of distinguished service with the company.
| 2016-Jun-16 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 18 prime cattle, 4 prime bulls, 14 OTM cattle, 674 prime hoggs, 799 spring lambs and 1,987 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 16th June 2016.
| 2016-Jun-16 |
Dilapidated barns in Upper Swaledale will be receiving special attention over the next 18 months in a bid to give them a new lease of life.
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| 2016-Jun-16 |
Harrison & Hetherington have announced that they will be handling the dispersal sale of the elite Millington Limousin herd.
| 2016-Jun-16 |
An insight into the management of a grouse moor will be among the attractions for visitors to the Country Pursuits area at the 2016 Great Yorkshire Show.
| 2016-Jun-16 |
Standen Engineering will launch its very latest destoner at Cereals 2016.
| 2016-Jun-13 |
Massey Ferguson’s state of the art MF 5713 SL tractor has won a Technical Innovation Award at this year’s Royal Highland Show.
| 2016-Jun-10 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 23 prime cattle, 16 OTM cattle, 1,118 prime hoggs, 1,144 spring lambs and 3,327 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 9th June 2016.
| 2016-Jun-09 |
‘Daniel Massey Bronze’ is tribute to 75 years of the combine harvester which revolutionised farming throughout the world.
| 2016-Jun-08 |
Farmers attending this year’s Cereals event will get their first look at New Holland’s T6.180 Methane Power tractor which was unveiled at Agritechnica.
| 2016-Jun-07 |
Finding themselves priced out of rural areas where they grew up, younger residents are leaving to find housing they can afford.
| 2016-Jun-07 |
Almost 7,000 of the finest livestock will be making their way to the Royal Highland Show. Organisers of the event, which takes place from 23-26 June, are preparing for what will be an exceptional exhibition.
| 2016-Jun-07 |
Growers can keep Annual meadow-grass in check this autumn with a three-way co-formulation of pendimethalin, diflufenican and chlorotoluron.
| 2016-Jun-07 |
Illegal persecution of birds of prey has been condemned by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority following news that a man had been caught setting banned traps.
| 2016-Jun-07 |
There have been welcome additions to the Newton Rigg College's Luing cattle herd with the arrival of the first calves of 2016.
| 2016-Jun-06 |
Presidents of the UK farming unions have sent written to European policymakers and elected officials on the importance of the reauthorisation of glyphosate.
| 2016-Jun-06 |
England could be on the verge of a new tree planting boom after a forestry innovation fund launched by a Government minister at a Confor event received applications to plant more than 1000 hectares of new woodland.
| 2016-Jun-06 |
The National Sheep Association has announced North Sheep 2017 will be hosted by W.H & J Smith & Sons at West Shields Farm, near Tow Law, in County Durham, on Wednesday 7th June.
| 2016-Jun-06 |
Sheep farmers are being encouraged to get advice from their SQP on new SCOPS quarantine guidelines.
| 2016-Jun-06 |
Janet Hill has been appointed secretary of the Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders’ Association.
| 2016-Jun-06 |
The market leader in bovine genetics, innovation and selection, Cogent Breeding Ltd, has announced an important partnership with the newly formed, type merit specialist, Blondin Sires Inc.
| 2016-Jun-03 |
Candidates who gained the highest scores in the NOAH Certificate of Animal Health during 2015 were awarded prizes at the NOAH annual dinner in London.
| 2016-Jun-03 |
FAO Food Price Index inches up in May, Food Outlook report notes role of burgeoning reserves.
| 2016-Jun-03 |
Surging interest in alkalising home-grown cereals to make low cost, high starch cattle diets has led to the launch of a new information-based website.
| 2016-Jun-03 |
With an 80% chance that the bluetongue virus will reach the south of the country later this summer, MSD Animal Health has moved quickly to ensure a vaccine is available to help British farmers and vets prevent the disease securing a foothold in the UK.
| 2016-Jun-03 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 22 prime cattle, 16 OTM cattle, 3,550 prime hoggs, 1,013 spring lambs and 2,723 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 2nd June 2016.
| 2016-Jun-01 |
Joe Farren, 44, from Cawood in North Yorkshire officially took over the reins at the Board on Wednesday 1st June following the retirement of Ian Hartley who’s been leading the organisation for the last 22 years.
| 2016-Jun-01 |
Massey Ferguson, will be showcasing its new MF 5700 SL and MF 4700 series tractors and the MF 9306 Xtra telehandler at this year’s Livestock Event.
| 2016-Jun-01 |
The Tenant Farmers Association has welcomed as good news, Government proposals to reduce or eliminate public subsidies for new anaerobic digestion installations relying on crops as their primary feedstock.
| 2016-Jun-01 |
Many farmers are still unsure on the real implications of Brexit or Bremain, so Old Mill accountants and financial planners have organised a high profile debate to shed further light on the topic.
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