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30/04/08
Organisers of this year’s inaugural Spring show of agricultural and construction machinery and equipment have handed over proceeds of more than £5,000 to charity.
30/04/08
Certified pure biodiesel may now be used in machines fitted with certain John Deere engines, says the Deere Power Systems Group.
30/04/08
A huge demand from Irish buyers for farms in England and Scotland is providing north farmers with the opportunity for retirement or lifestyle changes.
29/04/08
A British dairy sire has entered the international record books by producing more sexed semen than any other bull in the world.
29/04/08
FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today called on the international community not only to take immediate action to de-fuse the current world food emergency but also to seize the opportunities offered by higher food prices and prevent similar dramatic situations occurring in the future.
29/04/08
Charolais met an unprecedented demand selling to a top of 5,000gns and achieving a total clearance in Newark on Saturday 26 April at the centre’s inaugural multi-beef breed sale.
29/04/08
Twenty year old George Harrison is optimistic for the future as the new issue of food security begins to impact.
29/04/08
A second NSA Wales and Borders Early Ram Sale is likely to be held in Worcester to ensure that producers aren’t disadvantaged if Blue Tongue restrictions keep them away from Builth Wells.
29/04/08
Adding perennial chicory to grasslands can boost growth rates of lambs, new research has revealed.
28/04/08
The country’s largest supplier of free range eggs, Noble Foods, is predicting a continued growth in the sector - by as much as 10% in 2008.
28/04/08
The TFA's National Chairman, Greg Bliss today paid tribute to the Farmers Club for their foresight in creating the Farmers Club Pinnacle Awards for Excellence in Business Management.
28/04/08
Rising prices are stimulating producers to consider different raw materials for their animal feed formulations.
28/04/08
Case IH has expanded its dealer network with the appointment of three new dealers in Wales, and a new sales area manager, Andrew Davies, to cover this developing region.
24/04/08
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 83 prime cattle, 14 OTM cattle, 4774 prime hoggs,
39 spring lambs and 2139 cast ewes & rams at their weekly
sale at Longtown on Thursday 24th April, 2008.
24/04/08
Simply roofing over a midden on a Lake District hill farm has made all round benefits to the environment and in savings on labour and other costs.
23/04/08
With
jersey bull calves almost worthless, Sexed Semen from a UK
bred Jersey is a real winner.
23/04/08
Skipton Auction Mart’s
decision to take up the DEFRA option of becoming part of
the Bluetongue surveillance zone for trading purposes paid
off handsomely for Bishop Thornton farmer Peter Baul.
23/04/08
NSA Scotsheep 2008 is shaping up to be
the best ever with 140 trade stands booked and a record 40
sheep breed displays confirmed.
23/04/08
The
Scottish Government is supporting farmers to join LEAF (Linking
Environment And Farming), and carry out the tried and tested
LEAF Audit and add value to their produce through LEAF Marque.
23/04/08
NFU Scotland has expressed its
concern over the potential impact that the recently announced
fuel strikes could have on agriculture and other rural businesses,
as the impact starts to be felt already.
22/04/08
Prices
for milk, cheese and eggs in Europe have shown a sharp increase
over the last year while those for meat have gone up less than
half as fast according to a report just published.
22/04/08
Professor Grandin is acknowledged
as the world’s expert on cattle behaviour and handling
systems.
22/04/08
The National Beef Association
is looking for agreement that new, more friendly, approaches
to livestock production can be adopted now that the world
has woken up to the risk of imminent food shortages.
22/04/08
A study to research sustainable options
which could help secure the future of Britain’s hill farmers
has won a coveted Nuffield Farming Scholarship for a South Yorkshire
land restoration expert.
22/04/08
The
quality of lambs slaughtered and classified in English abattoirs
has held up remarkably well over the past year in the face
of the serious marketing disruptions.
21/04/08
A novel spray nozzle
is being made available from Syngenta, to help make the most
of better grain prices by minimising yield losses from delayed
spraying.
21/04/08
NFU
Scotland has welcomed the announcement of a supermarket summit,
to be chaired by the First Minister.
21/04/08
Charolais met a solid demand selling to a top of 5,600gns in Welshpool, on Thursday
17 April at the breed society’s official spring show and sale.
20/04/08
The
results of the first UK trials comparing the performance of
pure New Zealand and UK terminal sires when used on a lowland
flock will be revealed at an open day on Tuesday, April 29.
19/04/08
Auctioneers
Harrison & Hetherington brought under the
hammer a selection of Mediterranean miniature donkeys from
Southern Ireland, Alpacas from local breeders in Cumbria and
a dispersal of Llamas from Aberdeen.
18/04/08
Kilmarnock Academy pupils visited SAC’s
Ayr campus at the end of March. Biology teachers took a party
of their Higher level Biology pupils back to SAC for a taste
of the experiences they had enjoyed as students.
18/04/08
A new independent
study measuring the financial performance of dairy herds
has revealed stark differences between low and high genetic
merit herds.
17/04/08
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 89 prime cattle, 13 OTM cattle, 4,804 prime hoggs,
86 spring lambs and 3,803 cast ewes & rams at their weekly
sale at Longtown on Thursday 17th April, 2008.
17/04/08
This was the message as representatives
of the Scottish pig industry gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s
Rural Affairs and the Environment Committee in Holyrood this
week.
17/04/08
No fewer than 22 beef breed societies have
reserved demonstration space to promote their breeds and it is
anticipated that more than 300 cattle will be on display.
17/04/08
A report published by the European
Commission’s Food
and Veterinary Office (FVO) following its inspection of Brazil’s
beef industry has exposed ‘systemic failures in relation
to holding registration, animal identification and movement
controls.’
16/04/08
Pork
leg and loin roasting joints are the stars in the latest sales
figures which show overall increases of 10% for fresh and frozen
pork over the last 12 weeks, according to figures produced by
TNS for BPEX.
15/04/08
The
H&H Group, Carlisle, has appointed Brian Richardson,
who has spent 25 years in agribusiness management as its new
chief executive.
15/04/08
The
sale of British Blonde cattle took place at its new venue Worcester
Mart on Saturday 12th April under the expertise of auctioneer
Clive Rhodes from McCartney’s selling 90%
of cattle forward.
14/04/08
The annual Beautiful Farm Awards
recognises and rewards farmers for their care and stewardship
of the British countryside, and the competition is now open
to all farmers across the UK.
14/04/08
Wisteria Suri Ranch, one
of the newest members of the State of Texas Alpaca Ranchers
(STAR), welcomes Texas' first full Accoyo Suri alpaca herdsire,
Accoyo Dave's Othello.
14/04/08
NFU Scotland has
warned that the traditional daily ‘pinta’ could
be at risk as UK milk production sinks to its lowest level
since 1971.
11/04/08
The cereal import bill of the
world’s poorest countries
is forecast to rise by 56 percent in 2007/2008. This comes
after a significant increase of 37 percent in 2006/2007, FAO
said today.
11/04/08
Beef and dairy cattle across the country are
at risk of sudden death as a result of a number of unpredictable
diseases according to the Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
11/04/08
Local farmers Ken Fawcett & Sons
were again in championship-winning form at the store cattle
with show potential fixture at Skipton Auction Mart.
10/04/08
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 93 prime cattle, 8 young bulls, 18 OTM cattle, 5,850
prime hoggs and 3,663 cast ewes & rams at their weekly
sale at Longtown on Thursday 10th April, 2008.
10/04/08
There was a packed house last Saturday
at Dungannon Mart for the NI Blonde Cattle club's Annual Spring
Show and Sale.
10/04/08
SAC
has joined a world class consortium of leading animal science
researchers at the Easter Bush Research Consortium (EBRC),
which was launched earlier this week.
10/04/08
The Royal Association of British Dairy
Farmers has welcomed the Welsh Assembly Government’s £27million
bTB eradication programme which includes culling badgers in
targeted hot-spot areas.
10/04/08
Three
leading meat industry figures have accepted the invitation of
the National Beef Association to speak at the Beef Expo 2008
conference at Perth on Tuesday, May 20.
09/04/08
As ‘Biofuels
Day’ approaches on 15th April,
New Holland has confirmed its commitment to the promotion
of biodiesel in agriculture.
09/04/08
Urgent
measures are needed to ensure that short-term adverse effects
of higher food prices do not impact even more alarmingly
on the very poor, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said
today.
08/04/08
'Nutrition,
health and pleasure' was the theme of Sirest Ideas, France's
premier catering show, in Paris last week.
08/04/08
The NBA has called
for all resistance to GM crops, at both UK and EU level, to be
abandoned immediately in response to seismic shifts in world
demand for food.
08/04/08
NSA
Sheep 2008, the industry’s biennial initiative to
be staged at the Three Counties Show Ground, Malvern on Wednesday
30 July, has received support
from major industry players.
08/04/08
The journal Respirology has launched a special supplementary
issue on the avian influenza.
07/04/08
For the second year in a row the
quality of English beef carcases has shown clear across-the-board
improvements.
07/04/08
Volac
International has acquired the Golden Maverick milk replacer
business from the Irish based Kerry Group with immediate effect.
07/04/08
More than 600 scientists
are joining forces to create a consortium streamlining research
on animal diseases and its implications for human health.
07/04/08
Farmers and farm managers across England
are invited to enter Natural England’s 2008 Future of Farming
Awards.
07/04/08
NMR is adding a mobility monitoring
option to its web based Herd Companion system from April.
07/04/08
A new range of electronic
pulsators which give excellent milking efficiency and low
energy consumption has been launched by Fullwood.
07/04/08
Swapping an intensive barley-based beef finishing system for
a total mixed ration featuring forage maize is enabling Doug
Dear to maintain a viable large scale finishing enterprise
at Osgodby Grange.
04/04/08
The
April proof run was mainly one of stability for Cogent sires,
showing the strengths of the UK proving system. However two
UK bred bulls made significant strides in the rankings.
04/04/08
Deere & Company today announced plans
to significantly expand its presence in Russia,
one of the most important growth markets
for the company in both agriculture and forestry.
04/04/08
The £1.5million
vaccine voucher research project being run by BPEX is now up
and running. The scheme will provide vouchers for PCV2 vaccines
and is open to all English producers.
03/04/08
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 71 prime cattle, 31 OTM cattle, 6,088 prime hoggs
and 4,747 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Thursday 3rd April, 2008.
03/04/08
Three customised Case IH tractors
took all three podium positions at the European Tractor Pulling
Championship in Ahoy, Rotterdam in the Netherlands in March
2008.
03/04/08
AI company
Dairy Daughters is celebrating its best ever Holstein bull
proof run today (1 April), having taken the number one
position in both the PLI and Type Merit rankings.
03/04/08
Enterprise
in the Welsh countryside will be stifled and unlisted buildings
put at risk due to an additional tax, rural economy expert
CLA Wales has warned Welsh Assembly Government Heritage Minister,
Rhodri Glyn Thomas.
03/04/08
Bullsemen.com
is now marketing 10 of the top 30 bulls ranked by PLI -
now including Mtoto son Mascol at number 2 - and managing
director Nick Kirby is keen to emphasise overall reliability
above all else.
02/04/08
Kuhn
Farm Machinery now offers a wider range of maize drilling
options following investment in new production facilities
for its established Maxima and Planter precision drills.
02/04/08
As part of the Year of Food and
Farming, the Cumberland County Show has set up a project ensuring
primary school children find out where food comes from.
02/04/08
Red mites, which are difficult
to eradicate as they shelter in cracks and crevices in poultry
houses during the day, are a potential source of salmonella
transmission, according to biosecurity experts at agriculture
specialists Kiotechagil.
02/04/08
Visitors attending the UK’s national
beef event, Beef Expo 2008, at Perth Agricultural Centre on
Wednesday, May 21, will have the opportunity on the day before
the event of visiting two leading Perthshire beef farms.
01/04/08
Producers can gain more
from improved milk prices and take some of the sting out of
rising feed costs by reviewing their rations this spring and
consider using a new range of highly balanced blends of co-products.
01/04/08
Visitors
to the John Deere plot at Grassland 2008 will be able to
see, for the first time at a public working demonstration,
a new 7750 i Series self-propelled forage harvester, equipped
with AutoTrac automatic steering and a Kemper 460 Champion
maize header.
01/04/08
Rising
concentrate and energy costs are forcing dairy producers
to think again how they can reduce those inputs. |
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