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Agricultural, Environmental, Countryside and Farming News from the UK and beyond.
| 2018-Jul-31 |
The National Sheep Association is calling on policy makers to review the impact energy grant structures are having on the countryside and ensure these issues are addressed post-Brexit.
| 2018-Jul-31 |
ADA is seeking strategic long-term action to ensure England is better prepared to meet the water management challenges posed by future heatwaves.
| 2018-Jul-31 |
New Holland’s new CR Revelation combine range takes automation to a new level with the award-winning IntelliSense system and introduces a host of improvements.
| 2018-Jul-31 |
Farmers and landowners should be cautious about any offers from developers who are looking to off-load grid connection rights for battery storage schemes.
| 2018-Jul-31 |
As is usual for late July all roads in Wales led to the showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells for this year’s Royal Welsh Show.
| 2018-Jul-30 |
Recent rainfalls in many parts of the country and some moisture in the soil has opened the opportunity for livestock farmers to sow a forage crop that could help ease the pressure on feed supplies this autumn.
| 2018-Jul-30 |
90% of pathogens are transmitted to calves in the first hours of life and dairy farmers are being advised to take precautionary steps.
| 2018-Jul-30 |
Young Farmers have developed skills in sheep shearing as part of a new competition run by the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs and British Wool.
| 2018-Jul-30 |
The National Sheep Association raised the profile of sheep worrying by dogs, a crime affecting many flock keepers throughout the UK, by attending the National Police Chief Council Rural Crime Summit on Wednesday 25th July.
| 2018-Jul-30 |
Unless urgent action is taken, three breeds of the UK’s rarest horses could become extinct in the next 10 years. Numbers are worryingly low; just 240 Shire, 199 Clydesdale and 25 Suffolk pedigree foals were registered last year.
| 2018-Jul-27 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 10 cattle, 2,584 prime lambs and 4,556 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 26th July 2018.
| 2018-Jul-27 |
The UK has just 27 weeks of parliamentary time left before the Brexit date, and fruit growers are desperate for assurances that labour supply will be secured.
| 2018-Jul-27 |
New Kilnsey Show & Sports president Dr Peter Whitehead says he is looking forward with great anticipation to this year’s 121st annual highlight on Tuesday, August 28.
| 2018-Jul-27 |
The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (R.A.B.I) is bracing itself for a surge in calls for help, because of the summer heatwave.
| 2018-Jul-27 |
Rural businesses and communities are set to benefit from improved broadband access as part of a £45 million boost by the government.
| 2018-Jul-25 |
The UK Government has published a series of documents detailing the proposed closure of the Feed-in Tariff Scheme and has issued a Call for Evidence on the future for small-scale low-carbon generation.
| 2018-Jul-25 |
Allflex has announced the launch of a new version of its Alligator mobile sheep handling system.
| 2018-Jul-25 |
Following the initial excellent results from its partnership with Liebherr, CLAAS is now adding further wheel loader models to the product range, in the 5, 6 and 9 tonnes category.
| 2018-Jul-25 |
A successful on-farm production sale of 171 pedigree Holstein dairy cattle from the Throup family’s well-known Dalesbrad herd was staged at Higher House Farm, Silsden Moor.
| 2018-Jul-23 |
Agricultural organisations from England, Scotland and Wales are uniting in a new initiative which will see them work together to communicate the benefits of red meat in a balanced diet as part of a reinforced meat and health programme.
| 2018-Jul-23 |
Grassland is suffering badly in the summer drought, leaving many livestock producers without forage; but festuloliums are proving their worth by remaining green and healthy.
| 2018-Jul-23 |
Exports are booming as Europe’s biggest trailer maker celebrates two important milestones - its 60th anniversary and the 750,000th trailer rolling off the production line.
| 2018-Jul-23 |
Scottish Parliamentarians Pitched in as Pickers to Highlight Shortfall in Scottish Seasonal Workforce needed to prevent more crops rotting in the fields.
| 2018-Jul-23 |
The findings of a new NFU Cymru-commissioned survey show the vast majority of the Welsh public associate the nation’s farmers, first and foremost, as food producers and believe they should be financially supported for this important role.
| 2018-Jul-23 |
KUHN Farm Machinery has launched a new range of precision orchard and vineyard air-blast sprayers as part of its Amenity Pro horticultural equipment range.
| 2018-Jul-20 |
Countryside organisations welcome ministerial acknowledgement of moorland management’s role in helping prevent wildfires.
| 2018-Jul-20 |
The National Sheep Association and Woodland Trust have launched a new booklet highlighting the role of trees in sheep farming.
| 2018-Jul-20 |
Britain’s farmers are generally feeling more optimistic about the future than they did in 2017, according to a survey conducted by MHA, the UK-wide group of accountancy and business advisory firms.
| 2018-Jul-20 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 12 cattle, 1,632 prime lambs and 4,055 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 19th July 2018.
| 2018-Jul-20 |
Sally Wellock’s Harehills pedigree Holstein Friesian herd at Oldfield, near Oakworth, rattled up a hat-trick of consecutive championship wins at July’s second Craven Dairy Auction show and sale at Skipton Auction Mart.
| 2018-Jul-20 |
The UK’s leading Winter Livestock event, hosted by Harrison and Hetherington, has announced an impressive line-up of judges for the 2018 Borderway Agri-Expo.
| 2018-Jul-18 |
With the DISCO 1100 RC conditioner mower unit, CLAAS has set a new world record for the amount mowed in eight hours.
| 2018-Jul-18 |
Having started his flock in 2012, won the Overall Champion at the Royal Welsh Show and the Three Counties Show in 2014, 24-year-old Rhys Cooke from Monmouthshire, is now embarking on his first production sale.
| 2018-Jul-18 |
The worse-case scenario for the UK sheep sector, a ‘no deal’ on Brexit, is a possibility the sheep sector needs to prepare for, according to the National Sheep Association.
| 2018-Jul-18 |
The UK’s largest livestock trading company, Harrison and Hetherington, announces the promotion of two senior members of staff, to Joint Managing Directors. The two, David Pritchard and Scott Donaldson take up their positions, with immediate effect.
| 2018-Jul-16 |
Brassica fodder crops could provide a much-needed boost to feed stocks as livestock farmers battle forage shortages due to the widespread drought conditions.
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| 2018-Jul-16 |
A single prime lamb that went under the hammer at Skipton Auction Mart raised a staggering £1,500 for the “Thumbs up for Charlie” campaign to fund potentially life-saving treatment for two-year-old Charlie Robinson.
| 2018-Jul-16 |
More than 1,600 young farmers across England and Wales are more aware of farm safety thanks to a training course that has been delivered by Young Farmers’ Clubs – and the national Federation is aiming for even higher numbers in the new membership year.
| 2018-Jul-16 |
Following an extended winter and a slow wet spring, many parts of the country are now experiencing unprecedented dry conditions and its essential farmers have a grassland strategy in place, and act on it, to get through the current situation.
| 2018-Jul-13 |
One year on from the initial licence application by the Lynx UK Trust to reintroduce lynx to the British countryside, the National Sheep Association is reemphasising the risks granting this licence would bring.
| 2018-Jul-13 |
The ESPRO 4000 RC joins KUHN’s existing line-up of trailed min-till drills which includes the 3-metre rigid ESPRO 3000, the 4-metre and 6-metre foldable ESPRO 4000 R and ESPRO 6000 R, and the foldable combination ESPRO 6000 RC.
| 2018-Jul-13 |
A rise in the cost of wheat products such as bread could be the result of the current drought affecting the Eastern region, a Writtle University College arable crop expert has warned.
| 2018-Jul-13 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 31 cattle, 1,432 prime lambs, 344 prime hoggs and 4,237 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 12th July 2018.
| 2018-Jul-11 |
Scottish agricultural auctioneers Lawrie & Symington has strengthened its livestock team with the appointment of the former head of sheep sales at Europe’s largest sheep auction market.
| 2018-Jul-11 |
A farmer has been recognised by the farming and conservation industry for his outstanding efforts to promote good habitat and environmental management on his farm.
| 2018-Jul-11 |
Fruit producers will be able to see the latest developments in plant irrigation, vineyard and orchard management at this year’s Fruit Focus, helping them to improve outputs and efficiencies.
| 2018-Jul-11 |
In a summer in which cereal harvest records have already been toppled, winter wheat is now being combined at the earliest date in living memory on a farm in Somerset.
| 2018-Jul-11 |
County Antrim’s Michael Gallagher, from Armoy, was top dog on price with a 6,200gns sale for another impeccably bred dog rising two-years-old at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual summer sale of working sheep dogs.
| 2018-Jul-09 |
The co-evolution of plant - pathogen interactions has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a study of one of the world’s deadliest crop killers.
| 2018-Jul-09 |
A farmer’s son from Durham has topped the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers’ exams, earning him the prestigious RASE Talbot Ponsonby Prize.
| 2018-Jul-09 |
There is something for everyone at the English National Sheepdog trial at Jervaulx Abbey on 27-29 July, where 150 of the country’s top sheepdogs and their handlers will gather at the historic and picturesque site near Ripon.
| 2018-Jul-09 |
Time is running out for the world's forests, whose total area is shrinking by the day, warns a new FAO report urging governments to foster an all-inclusive approach to benefit both trees and those who rely on them.
| 2018-Jul-09 |
The chief executive of the British Free Range Egg Producers Association has called on RSPCA Assured to help its members meet new hen perching requirements.
| 2018-Jul-09 |
Bees' Needs Week is back for the third year running from 9 - 15 July 2018.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
Finishing lambs need to receive the optimum levels of essential trace elements to maximise growth rates, health and vitality – which will determine finishing time and ultimately, profitability.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
The farmland market in England is getting tougher, despite average values rising over the first half of 2018, according to land and property specialists Strutt & Parker.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
A new agreement has been signed between AHDB and Defra setting out how AHDB could develop a new multi-species livestock traceability service for England.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
NFU president Minette Batters is amongst the high profile speakers lined up for this year’s Women in Dairy conference on Wednesday 19 September at Sixways Stadium, Worcester.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
C&D Auction Marts Limited had forward 10 cattle, 1,461 prime lambs and 3,899 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 5th July 2018.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
The amount of land let in England and Wales remained static in 2017, but is set for a major shake-up after Brexit, according to the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers.
| 2018-Jul-06 |
Chartered Accountant and Corporate Financier Richard Rankin appointed as Chief Executive Officer of H&H Group PLC.
| 2018-Jul-04 |
New fruit varieties and the latest agronomic innovations will help growers make the best of their crops at Fruit Focus this year.
| 2018-Jul-04 |
More than 100 farmers attended the first in a series of open meetings, providing information and advice on the supply requirements for the halal food sector, during a busy market day at Welshpool Livestock Market.
| 2018-Jul-04 |
Oilseed rape crops may have been delayed by the cold winter and spring, but a short flowering period and recent dry weather means they have almost caught up, according to DLF Seeds.
| 2018-Jul-04 |
Figured, a leading accounting and farm management software platform in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, now enters UK.
| 2018-Jul-04 |
JCB has announced an investment of more than £50 million in a new British plant which will create hundreds of jobs and double production of cabs used on its machines.
| 2018-Jul-02 |
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