Agri-Business
Quality Meat Scotland launches 'Go Places with Pork' campaign
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has launched a new campaign to inspire and encourage Scottish consumers to try adventurous new pork...
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Rural Life
Search begins for new agri-tourism monitor farms in Scotland
Farming families around Scotland are being invited to put their names forward to be selected as Scotland’s next monitor farm...
Beef
Project calls for farmers to 'shout about the sire'
With only 23% of sires currently registered on passports, AHDB Beef & Lamb is urging farmers to start recording to...
Sheep
Farmer feedback suggests just 1 in 5 pet lambs get enough colostrum
Just one in five sheep producers rearing surplus lambs artificially are feeding them enough colostrum in the first 24 hours...
Agri-Business
HCC forums discuss traceability and value in meat processing
Traceability, technology and adding value to produce were the main topics for discussion at two forums organised by Hybu Cig...
Machinery
‘Type-approval’ solution for machinery manufacturers after Brexit?
A new regulation has been published to facilitate the requesting of EU type-approvals for vehicles such as tractors (and components...
Machinery
‘Practically 1 in every 2 4WD tractors in Europe contain our drive-shafts’
With Walterscheid Welsberg AG’s new manufacturing facility in South Tyrol, Italy, Walterscheid Powertrain Group now claims to have the “world’s...
Sheep
Sheep prices hold steady as supplies stay tight - QMS
Despite a slight dip in prime sheep prices since the start of 2019, values remain 5% higher than a year...
Machinery
Vaderstad Group’s turnover tops €300 million
Vaderstad Group’s turnover has exceeded €300 million for the first time in the company’s history for the 2018 financial year....
Rural Life
Farmers urged to take care in mixing slurry as deadline approaches
As the January 31 deadline for spreading slurry approaches, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) is warning...
Rural Life
New study finds public farm visits having a positive effect
New research has found that farmers who invite members of the public onto their land are changing the way people...
Agri-Business
Hancock: 'AMR presents a danger as big as as climate change or warfare'
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has set out the UK’s 20-year vision for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at the World Economic...
Machinery
Nearly 4 of every 5 new tractors in the UK come from just 3 giants
As we previously reported, 12,102 new agricultural tractors were registered in the UK during 2018. That’s according to data from...
Machinery
Case IH marks 50 years of ‘Steiger’ tractor production in Fargo factory
John, Maurice and Douglass Steiger, the father and sons who built the first Steiger articulated 4WD tractor more than 60...
Agri-Business
BASIS launches new award for FACTS candidates
BASIS has launched a new award for high achieving FACTS examination candidates, in honour of Prof. Brian Chambers – a...
Machinery
Average power of new tractors sold in the UK climbs to 167hp
As we previously reported, 12,102 new agricultural tractors were registered in the UK during 2018. That’s according to data from the...
Machinery
How many new tractors were registered in NI last year?
Data relating to registrations of new tractors in Northern Ireland (and across the UK) has just been released by the UK-based AEA (Agricultural...
Arable
Horticulture conference to bring international robotics experts to UK
Experts in agri-tech, robotics and automation are set to talk at SmartHort 2019, a two-day conference examining new technologies in...
