Machinery
Meet the mini monster tank tackling Scotland's gorse fires
He might only be a volunteer, but armed with his remote control ‘tank’, Cameron McCrae is the latest crucial addition...
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Machinery
In the mix: What’s new about Lemken’s latest high-speed harrow?
Lemken has been busy promoting the “mixing efficiency and high forward speed” of its compact disc harrows since 2001. The...
Rural Life
Search is on for Welsh Dairy Stockman of the Year
Nation Farmers’ Union (NFU) Cymru and NFU Mutual have once again launched the search for the Dairy Stockman of the...
Machinery
Lemken buys specialist Dutch company to combat ‘reduced acceptance of chemicals’
Lemken has acquired Dutch company Machinefabriek Steketee BV in a bid to expand its crop-care product portfolio. The deal will...
Dairy
Arla's UK income hits £961 million
Arla Foods’ UK arm has seen its revenue grow by 2.3% in the first half of 2018 with a net...
Agri-Business
2 stolen tractors found 26 miles away with false plates
Two stolen tractors worth more than £200,000 have been found with false number plates 26 miles away from the Chorley farm...
Agri-Business
The results are in...but do cover crops really work against black-grass?
The results are in from a study by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) – and it appears to...
Agri-Business
Texan climate change expert to speak at agri-economics seminar
A distinguished Texan professor is set to speak about climate change and its impact on the future of farming at...
Agri-Business
Texan climate change expert to speak at agri-economics seminar
A distinguished Texan professor is set to speak about climate change and its impact on the future of farming at...
Rural Life
New study finds goats prefer smiling faces
A new London-based study has found that not only can goats differentiate between human facial expressions – but that they...
Agri-Business
Farmer who lost arm: 'Hearing the air ambulance was the best sound I have ever heard'
A Warwickshire farmer who was flown to hospital after his arm was ripped off by machinery is urging locals to...
Machinery
Who needs a chaser bin? Just ‘carry’ a truck trailer into the field
For large-scale tillage farmers, growing vast acreages, the chaser bin is seen as the proven method for shunting the crop...
Rural Life
Gorse offered to farmers as animal bedding in Wales
Farmers in Wales are reportedly being offered an unusual form of animal bedding in light of straw price hikes caused...
Machinery
Fendt ‘on track’ to build 20,000 tractors per year by 2020
“We are on course to meet the strategic goal of selling around 20,000 Fendt tractors by 2020.” That was the...
World News
UN warns African Swine Fever could spread through Asia 'at any time'
Deadly pig virus African Swine Fever could spread to other Asian countries anytime through traded pork products, the United Nation’s...
Agri-Business
Cheshire vet cleared of disgraceful conduct allegation
The Disciplinary Committee of the RCVS has found a Cheshire-based veterinary surgeon not guilty of disgraceful conduct in a professional...
Agri-Business
17 out of 19 farm vehicles checked by police found with defects
Almost 90% of agricultural vehicles checked by police in Hertfordshire over a two-day operation were found to have road defects....
Agri-Business
'Stops must be pulled' to get farm payments completed
Scotland’s farming union has warned that the stops must be pulled out to complete direct farm payments for farmers caught...
