N.Ireland
NI BVD offenders to be prosecuted
Plans have been announced by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to take enforcement action against herd...
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Rural Life
SPARC launches three-year rural crime strategy
The Scottish Partnership Against Rural Crime (SPARC) has launched a new three-year ‘strategy’ to tackle this type of crime, and...
Schemes
CLA: 'We should be wary of normalising bridging payments'
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as welcomed the announcement that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will begin making...
Agri-Business
Leading vet: 'UK has become a hard sell'
A Leeds-based vet has told a veterinary conference in Portugal that the UK “has become a hard sell” as a...
Government
NFUS presses new Defra minister on Brexit challenges
Robert Goodwill, the new Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, toured two farms in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on Friday,...
Environment
From MI6 to CRT: Dame Judi Dench takes on new role
The Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT) has announced its new official patron: actor Dame Judi Dench, who, the national charity says,...
Dairy
Milk contracts a key policy issue for new NFUS dairy committee
The new look National Farmers’ Union Scotland’s (NFUS) milk committee has met to discuss a wide range of issues including...
Agri-Business
Dale Farm CEO: 'The UK must feed its own people'
The UK government must pay serious attention to the issue of food security, according to Dale Farm Group CEO Nick...
Dairy
Infant formula - what are the prospects?
According to the international food marketing and research body Gira, the global infant formula market was estimated at 2.7 billion...
Agri-Business
Kantar predicts an Easter boost for UK supermarkets
The latest UK grocery market share figures from Kantar show slow growth, largely thanks to a late Easter. The figures...
Beef
LMC says the marketing of beef has a 'strong international dimension'
Industry development manager with the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC), Colin Smith has recently returned from Canada, where he attended...
Environment
Rothamsted study confirms that spring is getting earlier
The first in-depth analysis into the seasonal timing of certain bird and insect behaviours, carried out by scientists at Rothamsted...
Dairy
How can field beans be best included in dairy cow diets?
Traditionally, the inclusion of field beans in ruminant diets is normally restricted due to the perceived risk associated with ‘anti-nutritional...
World News
Hitting 1,000 cows in Brazil's dairy capital
Within 50 years, the Epp family has gone from 50 cows to 1,000 on their farm outside Castro, Brazil. The...
Machinery
New tractor sales slump continues in the UK, but why?
New agricultural tractor registrations (over 50hp) in the UK in March were down (on a year-on-year basis) for the sixth...
Dairy
First Milk reveals price for May supplies
Scottish-based co-op First Milk has revealed its milk price for its members in the month of May, in what is...
Agri Politics
UK formally requests second Brexit extension to June 30
Prime Minister Theresa May has today, Friday, April 5, sent a letter to President of the European Council Donald Tusk,...
Dairy
AHDB to expand its ‘strategic dairy farm network'
The AHDB has been awarded £1 million from the Betty Lawes’ Foundation to expand its strategic dairy farm network. This...
