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...
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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...
Agri-Business
Almost 300 camelid TB reactors in Britain in 2017
Almost 300 camelids were slaughtered in Great Britain in 2017 after reacting positively to TB tests, the latest official figures...
N.Ireland
Dromore gears up for International Sheepdog Trial 2018
Thousands of local, national and international visitors will descend on Dromore’s Gill Hall Estate, Co. Down, when the International Sheepdog...
N.Ireland
Dromore gears up for International Sheepdog Trial 2018
Thousands of local, national and international visitors will descend on Dromore’s Gill Hall Estate, Co. Down, when the International Sheepdog...
Dairy
Study rubbishes full-fat cheddar cholesterol claims
A major Irish study has found that full-fat cheddar cheese does not aggravate already high blood cholesterol levels. A total of...
Machinery
New flagship Deere forager has a 970hp V12 engine…from Liebherr
Since early July, we’ve been bringing you details (as they’ve leaked out) of John Deere’s much-talked-about 9000 Series self-propelled forage...
Agri-Business
D’Arcy steps down as LacPatrick chief
LacPatrick Dairies chief executive Gabriel D’Arcy has announced his decision to resign as chief executive of cross-border milk processor. The...
Agri-Business
Early closure of New Entrant scheme causing 'angst and anxiety'
Scotland’s Next Generation Group has written to Rural Economy Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing expressing “extreme disappointment” at news the New...
Agri-Business
2 of Scotland's largest estates to merge
Two of Scotland’s largest estates – Bowhill Estate and Eskdale and Liddesdale Estate – are to merge to form one...
Arable
Scotland's first vertical farm 'arguably world's most advanced'
A Scottish agri-tech business has just unveiled its first indoor vertical farm demonstration facility in Perthshire. The firm behind it,...
Machinery
At the controls of an ‘IDEAL’ flagship combine
Farmers and contractors have been getting their hands on AGCO’s new IDEAL combine harvester at a series of ‘master-classes’ held...
Agri-Business
£1 billion Scottish food tourism plan urged to highlight links with farming
Scotland’s farming union has urged those behind a new plan to double the value of Scottish food tourism by 2030...
