Agri-Business
UK's newest monitor farm unveiled
Cow comfort is a top priority at AHDB’s latest strategic dairy farm – Carpenter’s Farm near Chippenham in Wiltshire. The...
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Agri-Business
TB: Compulsory insurance and an end to compensation on the cards
A review of the Government’s 25-year bovine TB strategy includes recommendations to scrap compensation and give farmers more information when buying...
Rural Life
Aberdeenshire man was second brother to be killed in a farming accident
A 47-year-old Aberdeenshire man who was killed over the weekend is the second in his family to have died in...
N.Ireland
Avoid Harm on the Farm 2019 safety poster winners announced
More than 3,500 children from 98 Northern Ireland schools put pens, pencils and crayons to paper over the last few months to...
N.Ireland
Avoid Harm on the Farm 2019 safety poster winners announced
More than 3,500 children from 98 Northern Ireland schools put pens, pencils and crayons to paper over the last few months to...
Dairy
SMP intervention stocks now reduced by 50%
Half of the skimmed milk powder (SMP) bought into public stock since 2015 – some 190,000t out of 380,000t –...
Dairy
Is good quality silage on the menu for your dairy cows?
In order to achieve high milk yields, dairy cows need to be offered good-quality silage in order to optimise performance....
Beef
Beef Shorthorn females achieve new 11,000gns Skipton record
Beef Shorthorn females met an exceptional demand from a packed ringside selling to 11,000gns a new centre breed record at...
Agri-Business
Operation Bo Peep: Scottish sheep farmers unleash new weapon against rustlers
Dubbed ‘Operation Bo Peep’, Scottish farmers now have a new secret weapon against sheep theft. It’s the stuff of shepherds’...
Beef
Conference to focus on improving profitability in beef production
Industry representatives have come together to arrange a conference ‘Healthy Cattle, Healthy Profits’ looking at ways to improve profitability in...
Beef
Conference to focus on improving profitability in beef production
Industry representatives have come together to arrange a conference – ‘Healthy Cattle, Healthy Profits’ – looking at ways to improve...
Agri-Business
AgriScot Scotch Beef Farm of the Year finalists unveiled
Three livestock farmers hailing from Aberdeenshire, East Lothian, and Dumfries and Galloway have made it to the finals of the...
Opinion
WWI: What can we learn from the few who fed the many?
I never met either of my grandfathers but, as far as I can gather, the Martin and Wallace men continued...
Rural Life
Countryside Alliance aims to tackle hare poaching
More needs to be done to tackle the growing issue of hare poaching – or coursing – according to the...
Agri Politics
'AHDB must give farmers value for money' - CLA
The roles and activities of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) need to be reviewed, according to the Country...
Opinion
It’s time to sort out the UK’s post-Brexit farm support budget
Stakeholder groups can talk about the post-Brexit support policies required by the farming industry until they are blue in the...
Dairy
Dairy exporters heading for leading food and drink fair in China
Dairy exporters will be travelling to China later this month, in a UK delegation led by the Agriculture and Horticulture...
Rural Life
World War I: Tributes to those who farmed to feed the country
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president Minette Batters has paid tribute to the ‘key role’ of those who worked to...
