Agri-Business
Search is on to find Scots ‘Make it’ ambassadors
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) chairman Kate Rowell, is encouraging farmers, butchers, auctioneers, hauliers, processors, chefs and red meat industry professionals...
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Environment
Clyde Valley farming partnership awarded £90,000 to protect wading birds
A project involving 17 farmers in the Upper Clyde Valley has been awarded £90,000 to expand its work improving farmland...
Agri-Business
New guide to identify opportunities to improve grass utilisation
A new guide hopes to help livestock farmers seeking to improve their profitability through better grazing management, by explaining the...
Environment
Rural bodies calls for Scottish government to clamp down on fly-tipping
Two of Scotland’s rural bodies have joined forces to write to Holyrood calling for a series of measures to stave...
N.Ireland
Renowned ‘high-end agricultural enterprise’ on the market in Co. Fermanagh
A residential farm offering the “highest quality facilities and agricultural land” is up for sale as whole or in two...
Agri-Business
Scots project gets funding to develop digital dairy tracing
A digital dairy project led by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been awarded £50,000 in seed-corn funding by UK Research...
Rural Life
Welsh farmer to raffle off one-of-a-kind hide chair for RABI
A Welsh cattle farmer and leatherworker, has set her sights on raising £5,000 for The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI)...
Rural Life
2t of meat waste dumped in Lanarkshire burn
A Lanarkshire farmer has been faced the disgusting discovery of 2t of waste from a meat processing site dumped on...
N.Ireland
HSENI to take new approach to farm safety messaging
Northern Ireland’s Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) is to take a simpler and snappier approach to its farm safety campaign....
N.Ireland
HSENI to take new approach to farm safety messaging
Northern Ireland’s Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) is to take a simpler and snappier approach to its farm safety campaign....
Agri-Business
NFU Cymru calls for Housing Minister to encourage use of wool in construction
NFU Cymru has written to the Welsh Government calling for the introduction of new measures to increase the use of...
Dairy
The UK can ‘match Ireland’s doubling of its dairy output’
Mark Roach, the managing director of Grosvenor Farms near Chester in England, has said that the UK dairy sector could...
Agri-Business
UK takeaway market back in growth after coronavirus lockdown
Brits are buying more takeaways than they did before lockdown, with latest figures showing a 2% rise in orders compared...
Rural Life
English and Royal Welsh winter fairs cancelled
Organisers have been forced to cancel this year’s English Winter Fair and Royal Welsh Winter Fair as part of the...
Agri-Business
Lakeland Dairies increases milk price for July
Lakeland Dairies has become the latest processor to reveal its milk price for July, revealing an increase to the base...
Agri-Business
Dairy market analysis: Some price weakness in SMP but butter holds stable
The last couple of weeks have seen some price weakness creep into skim milk powder (SMP) markets while butter prices...
Agri-Business
EFS grants: Farmers urged to be aware of what they are agreeing to
Northern Ireland farmers considering signing up to the latest round of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) are urged to be mindful...
N.Ireland
‘All night silage-cutting’ complaint prompts fiery online debate
A complaint made by a local community page in Co. Down about “all night silage-cutting”, which encouraged members of the...
