Rural Life
Moray vet elected as new BVA Scottish branch president
A Moray vet with experience in agricultural animals has been elected as the British Veterinary Association’s new Scottish branch president. Kathleen...
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Machinery
New ‘IDEAL’ combine wins big award, but awards don’t pay the bills
Massey Ferguson’s IDEAL combine harvester has won the Platinum A-Design Award (in the Agriculture, Horticulture and Fisheries Design Award category)....
Machinery
Pair of ‘unmanned’ Valtras on test at active airport
Robotic vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers are already here, but can the same technology be applied to a 7t machine that...
Machinery
Extended SDF Indian factory can now ‘build 15,000 tractors per year’
The inauguration of new SDF (Same Deutz-Fahr) production lines in Turkey took place this month. The renewed plant (in Bandirma) is...
Environment
Scottish Natural Heritage to launch consultation into General Licences
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has announced it will carry out a 12-week consultation into General Licences later this year. A General...
Machinery
Table: Tractor sales up in the US, but major worries loom
Sales of new agricultural tractors in the US were up last month (compared to April 2018) in almost every category....
Rural Life
Farmer uses pocket knife to amputate leg following auger incident
A farmer in the US has suffered a traumatic accident recently when he stepped on the opening of a grain...
Machinery
New ‘Innovation Centres’ in Japan and Europe for Kubota
Kubota Corporation, which is headquartered in Japan, is establishing new ‘Innovation Centres’ – one in Japan and another in Europe....
Agri-Business
'Scottish veterinary community must work together in challenging times ahead'
British Veterinary Association (BVA) president Simon Doherty used the association’s annual Scottish Dinner to urge veterinary professionals to work together...
Agri-Business
New RHET group to take farming message to Argyll And Bute schools
A new group proposed for Argyll and Bute aims to inform and engage with schoolchildren about food and farming. Farmers,...
Agri-Business
Hands Free Hectare to expand to 35ha site
The UK’s award-winning Hands Free Hectare project has received funding from Innovate UK to create a whole hands-free farm. The...
Agri-Business
Hoey’s winning formula: ‘Face your crisis. Address it. Drive through it’
Starting out as “the new kid on the block” and dealing with the horsemeat scandal of 2013 have been “the...
Beef
What is the carbon footprint of the entire US beef industry?
It’s not just in Ireland that the beef industry has been targeted as a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions...
Machinery
Fully-electric ‘utility’ tractor can run for ‘up to 8 hours’ on a charge
North American entity Solectrac is on a mission to garner support for its electric tractor. The so-called ‘eUtility‘ model costs...
Agri Politics
FUW urges against Brexit protest votes in EU election
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has warned that ‘protest votes’ in Thursday’s EU election in favour of hard-line Brexit...
Rural Life
Farmer finds missing calf…buried in badger burrow
A farmer has made quite an unexpected discovery in a badger burrow on his farm when he discovered one of...
Agri-Business
UK’s first 2 SmartHort Centres selected to address labour challenges
AHDB has named the two English horticulture businesses which will become the UK’s first Strategic SmartHort Centres. Lincolnshire based propagators, Volmary...
Agri-Business
Training scheme boasts business savings of £50,000 or more per business
Applications for the 2019 Professional Manager Development Scheme (PMDS) have now opened, with the first session starting in September. Farmers...
