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Agricultural, Environmental, Countryside and Farming News from the UK and beyond.
| 2017-Jun-30 |
Farmers are being advised to take a second look at the mid-tier Countryside Stewardship Scheme, as it offers potential to secure significantly higher payments than were available under the old Entry Level Stewardship scheme.
| 2017-Jun-30 |
The Shropshire-based dairy herd belonging to Tim and Louise Downes has been awarded the 2017 HerdWise Best Practice award for Johne’s Control.
| 2017-Jun-30 |
The ‘dynamic duo’ of Foxhillfarm Mammamia and Foxhillfarm Looksthepart came through to sweep the board and win the Limousin Supreme and Reserve Supreme Championships respectively at the 2017 Royal Highland Show.
| 2017-Jun-30 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 26 cattle, 2,520 prime lambs, 293 prime hoggs and 2,837 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 29th June 2017.
| 2017-Jun-28 |
The Texel Sheep Society and AHDB Signet Breeding Services have struck a new agreement with regards the provision of performance recording to Texel Society members.
| 2017-Jun-28 |
Students who gained the highest scores in the NOAH Certificate of Animal Health (NCAH) examinations in 2016 have been recognised at NOAH’s first ever Members’ Day, held at ZSL Regents Park.
| 2017-Jun-28 |
The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers has invested its first ever Scottish President, supported by two deputies ready to take on the challenges of the future.
| 2017-Jun-28 |
Soil specialists from Kellogg’s Origins programme will speak at this year’s Groundswell farming conference on June 29th to advise farmers on how to boost crop productivity.
| 2017-Jun-26 |
On Thursday 15th June a diverse group of stakeholders visited Wemmergill Estate to enjoy an informative day up on the moor and witness a variety of moorland management techniques in action.
| 2017-Jun-26 |
Numbers of seasonal workers coming to work on British farms have dropped 17%, leaving some businesses critically short of people to harvest fruit and veg, a new survey by the NFU shows.
| 2017-Jun-26 |
Adama has launched a new and unique contact herbicide for use as an early season post-emergence treatment against a range of key weed threats in oilseed rape.
| 2017-Jun-26 |
Fed up trying to feed orphan lambs with bottles and buckets when more than busy lambing sheep?
| 2017-Jun-26 |
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society is celebrating after four of its businesses have been shortlisted for the prestigious White Rose Tourism Awards.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
Sally Wellock, who runs the Harehills pedigree dairy herd at West House Farm, Oldfield, near Keighley, picked up her second Craven Dairy Auction championship of the year at the second June show at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
Research and practical innovation will be the key to profitable farming post-Brexit, and the Cereals event had plenty of both on offer.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
Navigating the challenges posed by Brexit is something all producers are attempting to do, but it is easier said than done.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
Scottish Farmers get their first look at New Holland’s recently launched T5 Utility tractor range alongside its latest round and square baler models at the Royal Highland Show.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
Insights into the current global milk market and accessing finance are just two of the topics at this year’s Women in Dairy conference on 20th September at Sixways Stadium, Worcester.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
St David’s Poultry Team, which pioneered a unique approach to reducing antibiotic usage in livestock, has launched a new company specialising in optimising farm animal health.
| 2017-Jun-23 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 31 cattle, 2,002 prime lambs, 1,823 prime hoggs and 3,791 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 22nd June 2017.
| 2017-Jun-21 |
A brand new range of Maschio mounted reversible ploughs will debut at the Highland show.
| 2017-Jun-21 |
Interim findings from Trehane Fellowship study ‘Identifying a Strategy for the UK Dairy Industry Post-Brexit’ suggest the dairy sector will face harsh realities in the short term after leaving the EU.
| 2017-Jun-21 |
A dozen of the UK’s top agricultural photographers have donated images to farming charity the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution to help raise funds for farming people in financial hardship.
| 2017-Jun-21 |
Farms and rural businesses will need excellent leadership and management if they are to thrive in the coming years, and a new short course is set to provide just that.
| 2017-Jun-21 |
HE-VA will be launching a new 3m split-folding V-Profile Front Press at the Highland Show to add to its best-selling range of front presses.
| 2017-Jun-21 |
Krone’s Swadro 1400 Plus four-rotor centre delivery rake is now available with the option of a dynamic rotor suspension system that is particularly useful in extremely undulating and very soft land.
| 2017-Jun-19 |
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society promises to maintain resilience in a rapidly changing world, that was the message at the 2017 AGM held on 14th June.
| 2017-Jun-19 |
John Deere took the opportunity to announce an updated version of its successful R4040i 4000-litre capacity self-propelled sprayer at Cereals 2017.
| 2017-Jun-19 |
A scarcity of caustic soda, and what is available nearly doubling in price, is making alkalisation of home-grown cereals this harvest a ‘no brainer’ for ruminant livestock farmers.
| 2017-Jun-19 |
The EASY on board app from CLAAS has now received official AEF certification as an ISOBUS terminal. This app is the first, and so far only, app for a tablet PC and can be used to operate any ISOBUS implement.
| 2017-Jun-19 |
Wheat growers have a new opportunity to boost crop health from germination onwards by making use of ‘beneficial side effects’ of latest fungicide technology, research suggests.
| 2017-Jun-19 |
In the light of recent reports of a call to end tax breaks in relation to owning farmland, there has been some clarification on grazings following a decision by the First-Tier Tribunal earlier this year, says Saffery Champness.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
At the Royal Highland Show, Scot JCB will display a series of brand new machines from JCB’s purpose built range of equipment for the farming industry.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
40% of dog attacks on sheep are carried out by straying or unaccompanied dogs, according to results from latest National Sheep Association survey.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
The AirMax 180 pneumatic spreader provides class-leading, accurate application.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
New Holland Agriculture, a brand of CNH Industrial, has announced that it is opening a new branch to distribute and support its products and services in South Africa and neighbouring markets.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
The new HE-VA Tip Roller XL meets the demand for wider rolls, with the ability to cultivate and level, and had its UK debut on the OPICO stand at the Cereals event.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
A vote in the European Parliament rejected the views of the Parliament’s own agricultural committee and will now see a ban for the use of Plant Protection Products on Ecological Focus Areas become effective for claim year 2018.
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| 2017-Jun-16 |
As we await the final outcome from the shock general election result, the Association of Drainage Authorities warns that we must remain pro-active to the threat of drought and flooding.
| 2017-Jun-16 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 19 cattle, 2,706 prime lambs, 984 prime hoggs and 3,434 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 15th June 2017.
| 2017-Jun-14 |
A total of 33 young service technicians have graduated from the latest John Deere Ag Tech, Parts Tech and Turf Tech advanced apprenticeship programmes, run in partnership with national training provider ProVQ.
| 2017-Jun-14 |
Rising input costs will see the cost of agricultural contracting services climb in coming months.
| 2017-Jun-14 |
Maschio has launched a range of mounted reversible ploughs for tractors from 120hp to 300hp at the Cereals Event 2017.
| 2017-Jun-14 |
A state of the art Sheep Husbandry Centre which will help safeguard the future of the country's hill farming industry was officially opened by Cumbria-based Newton Rigg College on Tuesday 13 June 2017.
| 2017-Jun-14 |
The National Sheep Association launched a new report on The benefits of sheep in arable rotations at Cereals 2017.
| 2017-Jun-14 |
Farm businesses tendering to become a contractor under a Contract Farming Agreement are seeking greater certainty about the income they will receive from the venture and are striking deals which shift the balance of risk back towards the farmer.
| 2017-Jun-12 |
NFU President Meurig Raymond has sent the following letter to Michael Gove MP, the new Defra Secretary of State.
| 2017-Jun-12 |
The Moorland Association welcomes the new research by the University of Glasgow into the impact of high deer numbers and Lyme disease, which affects both humans and animals.
| 2017-Jun-12 |
Seamless connectivity between machines, operators and fields is at the heart of John Deere’s latest FarmSight precision farming solutions for farmers and contractors, which are featured at Cereals 2017.
| 2017-Jun-12 |
Latest technology and special edition tractors will join new dealers on the Case IH stand at the Royal Highland Show 2017.
| 2017-Jun-12 |
Benchmarking of crop performance plus use of big data to identify farming practices that deliver genuine benefits could become increasingly important to arable farms says leading agronomy firm, ProCam.
| 2017-Jun-09 |
The discovery of an organism able to target harmful bacteria and leave ‘good’ bacteria intact in pigs could be poised to drive a long term change in how people with drug-resistant infections are treated.
| 2017-Jun-09 |
In May ORO AGRI International sponsored the EuroBlight 2017 Workshop for the first time and presented a paper in the “Control Strategies” session chaired by Huub Schepers from Wageningen University and Research.
| 2017-Jun-09 |
The National Sheep Association welcomed the announcement from Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths that new legislation on quarantine units in Wales will now be delayed until later this year.
| 2017-Jun-09 |
The National Sheep Associated was delighted to formally present Chris Lloyd with the highly regarded NSA George Hedley Memorial Award 2016.
| 2017-Jun-09 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 34 cattle, 1,396 prime lambs, 2,061 prime hoggs and 2,097 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 8th June 2017.
| 2017-Jun-07 |
The Millers, an award-winning family of farmers from the Vale of Evesham, have got the 2017 grass-growing season off to a flying start with two cuts of silage complete by the start of June.
| 2017-Jun-07 |
An innovative and easily accessible online education resource offering best practice knowledge on a range of forage management topics has been launched by Germinal at Grassland & Muck.
| 2017-Jun-07 |
Defending champions retained their titles at Skipton Auction Mart’s June prime shows, with the Critchley family, winning the prime cattle championship and Neil Tattersall, returning to again lead the way with his prime lambs.
| 2017-Jun-07 |
Sheep veterinary consultancy business Flock Health Ltd has established a new base in Gloucestershire, as experienced sheep vet Phillipa Page joins the team.
| 2017-Jun-07 |
Make a date to discover the world of farming at Henfaes Research Centre LEAF Open Farm Sunday, 11th June 2017.
| 2017-Jun-07 |
Identifying marginal gains and shaping the future will be the main themes of the day when 2016 RABDF/NMR Gold Cup winners Roland and Simon Bugler open the gates at Pilsdon Dairy Farm on Wednesday 28 June.
| 2017-Jun-05 |
While the aims of the Beef Efficiency Scheme are admirable, the administration of the scheme has resulted in a number of beef farmers choosing not to participate and others deciding to withdraw their participation.
| 2017-Jun-05 |
The NFU is calling on candidates to make Brexit a success for British farmers as new survey results show their confidence for the next three years has taken a significant knock.
| 2017-Jun-05 |
A new lightweight mini button tag with EID compatibility has been launched by Allflex, enabling flock managers to take full advantage of the management benefits of EID especially when tagging lambs at birth.
| 2017-Jun-05 |
It is time for the next government to take a fresh look at water level and flood risk management, urges the Association of Drainage Authorities.
| 2017-Jun-05 |
The Pig Veterinary Society has confirmed that following a review carried out by its Medicines Sub-committee, it is adopting the European Medicines Agency’s list of highest-priority Critically Important Antibiotics.
| 2017-Jun-02 |
Farmers & Mercantile to highlight the impact of new technologies and new legislation on future farm insurance requirements at Cereals 2017.
| 2017-Jun-02 |
The British Limousin Cattle Society has announced that Debbie Butcher has been appointed to the new position of Communications & Marketing Manager.
| 2017-Jun-02 |
New figures collated by the British pig industry and released by RUMA indicate use of Colistin, an antibiotic of last resort which treats a number of bacterial infections in both humans and animals, fell significantly in the sector during 2016.
| 2017-Jun-02 |
Visitors to Grassland & Muck 2017 were treated to live demonstrations and displays of the latest ranges of balers, rakes, mowers and tedders from Massey Ferguson.
| 2017-Jun-02 |
The European Commission is to be congratulated for officially approving insect protein for aquaculture feed, however now urgent action is required to allow safe and sustainable insect-based feedstock for the pork and poultry industries, nextProtein says.
| 2017-Jun-02 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 24 cattle, 693 prime lambs, 2,569 prime hoggs and 2,836 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 1st June 2017.
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