Arable
SRCU trials event to focus on growing for the market and boosting margins
Ensuring that Scottish cereals remain “the supply of choice” for the whisky and gin markets will be among the topics...
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Agri-Business
Wales Woman Farmer of the Year: Just a few days left to enter
Just a few days are left to nominate Wales’ next woman farmer of the year. The competition, which is run...
Agri-Business
£2 million awarded to support sustainable farming research
Four new interdisciplinary projects have received £1.8 million in funding to improve sustainable farming practices in the UK. The projects include: Exploring...
Environment
Bridging payments extended to all Countryside Stewardship farmers
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced that all Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement holders who claimed...
Rural Life
Fancy an all-expenses-paid trip to OFC?...Here's your chance!
For the second year in a row, National Farmers’ Union Scotland members are being given the opportunity to win an...
Dairy
Northern Irish Lakeland suppliers optimistic for future growth
Lakeland Dairies’ milk suppliers in Northern Ireland are confident for their future in dairying, according to the results of the...
Agri-Business
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to introduce 2 new committees
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons members have ok-ed plans to introduce two new committees and also increase the frequency of its...
Rural Life
Prince's Countryside Fund launches Scottish rural development group
The Prince’s Countryside Fund has announced it will launch a new Scottish rural development group today, at the first day...
N.Ireland
Tractor and trailer involved in collision with Tayto truck
A livestock trailer being towed by a tractor has been involved in a collision with a Tayto truck along a...
Arable
New ADAS project is set to 'drill down' on upping crop yields
The UK’s largest independent agricultural and environmental consultancy, ADAS, has been awarded European funding for a new yield-boosting project called...
Agri-Business
Arla board sets May milk price above 30p/L
The board of Britain’s largest milk processor – Arla – has met to set a price for May milk supplies...
Agri Politics
Farmers and crofters look to British Government to 'step up the pace' on Brexit
Scottish farmers have called for clarity on funding, trade and labour post-Brexit, just nine months from the UK’s expected departure...
N.Ireland
‘We still don’t know what the UK wants’ – EU Commissioner Hogan tells journalists
From a European perspective, the big problem in Brexit talks is that the European Union “still doesn’t know what the...
Rural Life
One Mazda, a Harper Adams engineering duo and the long road to the Mongolia
Two Harper Adams Agricultural Engineering students are setting off on an intrepid adventure travelling more than 15,000 miles across 22...
Government
England's largest ever BVD scheme launches today - but what's involved?
A £5.7million funding package to help farmers across England tackle the highly contagious disease Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) has been announced...
Agri-Business
AHDB launches major farm data sharing project
Creating a best practice guide to sharing farm data is the focus of a new consultation launched by the Agriculture...
Arable
Pregnancy test for blackgrass…how does it work?
Researchers at Newcastle University have used technology from human pregnancy tests to identify the level of herbicide resistance in blackgrass....
Arable
Mechanical weeding: ‘We need something else in our toolbox’
Mechanical weeders and robotic weeders were a hot topic of conversation at Cereals 2018, which took place in Cambridge last...
