Sheep
‘Beast from the East’ knocks 500,000 off Welsh sheep numbers
Short-term weather factors have, as anticipated, hit the Welsh sheep industry this year, new figures released by Welsh Government show....
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Beef
Miller steals the show at Beef and Lamb Championship
This week’s Royal Ulster Beef and Lamb Championships belonged to Moneymore breeder Robert Miller, who sold two very special heifers...
Rural Life
62ac mixed farm for sale at £10,000 an acre in North Antrim
A retirement sale has brought a tidy 62ac mixed farm to the market in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim at £625,000. Including a...
Opinion
'Guess what, rural businesses are totally unprepared for Brexit - but can't blame them'
So only 20% of rural businesses across the UK are Brexit-proofed. Or, put another way, 80% aren’t. These are astonishing...
Arable
Cereals survey...what's in and what's out in 2019?
The areas sown to wheat, winter barley and oats in Britain have all increased compared with 2017-18, according to AHDB’s...
Agri-Business
£4.4 million agri-tech innovation hub opened in Shropshire
A multi-million-pound hub for the development, testing and sharing of technologies to boost productivity in farming and the food supply...
Arable
Arable Conference 2019 Guy Smith announced as keynote speaker
National Farmers’ Union deputy president Guy Smith has been announced as the keynote speaker for the 2019 Arable Conference. The...
Agri-Business
Lord Price: 'After defence, a Government’s highest priority is to feed its people'
Lord Mark Price, former Minister for Trade and Investment and managing director of Waitrose, addressed the National Farmers’ Union Henry...
Agri-Business
New report examines what’s next for agricultural commodities markets
AHDB has warned looking ahead at markets will become more crucial to agriculture now than ever as the body releases...
Agri-Business
Migration Advisory Committee calls for evidence on labour shortages
Rural businesses are urged to respond to the Government’s review of the shortage occupation list as the deadline to make...
Rural Life
1,500 reports of animals caught in litter last year
Shocking figures released as part of a new campaign launched today (November 30) to crack down on littering have laid...
Pig/Poultry
Report shows 8% increase in cost of UK pig meat production
The costs of pig meat production in rose 17 European countries during 2017 according to a new report produced by...
Machinery
John Deere ‘scales’ new heights with its latest model
Manufacturers are always looking to come up with new ideas to help them stand out from the crowd at shows,...
Beef
Bayer cuts 12,000 staff as it exits animal health business
A recent statement issued from Bayer has announced that the company intends to exit the animal health business in what...
Machinery
Reseeding by over-seeding is the vision of Vredo
The new year will see LAMMA 2019 take place at the NEC in Birmingham. With just a couple of months...
Agri-Business
BASIS to launch qualifications to enhance soil quality
With the Agriculture Bill set to reward farmers for ‘public goods’, such as healthy soils, BASIS is preparing to launch...
Machinery
Claas takes its tractors out to the front line
This year Claas decided to give the National Ploughing Championships a miss and concentrate instead on taking its tractors on...
Machinery
Kubota swells the ranks of the middle class
Kubota long ago put to rest the idea that the Japanese can’t make ‘proper’ tractors and its assault on the...
