Arla Foods amba milk price reduction
Arla Foods amba is reducing its global on-account milk price by €1.5 cents, with effect from 28 April 2014. This reduces Arla’s standard litre price in the UK by 1.27ppl taking it to 33.74 pence per litre. Commenting on the reduction, Ash Amirahmadi, Arla Foods UK’s head of milk and member services said: “Over recent […]
Arla Foods recognised by Mcdonalds as Sustainable Supply Award winner
McDonald’s has announced its “2014 Best of Sustainable Supply” award winners in a report highlighting how suppliers achieved significant results by identifying opportunities and applying sustainable solutions in diverse places across the world. More than 600 entries were submitted, with Arla Foods earning a prestigious place alongside 50 other leading projects. McDonald’s leadership and external […]
Housing dairy cattle can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter
Research from Scotland’s Rural College has found that greenhouse gas emissions from dairy cattle can be significantly reduced through housing dairy cows all year round and breeding them for increased productivity. The seven year research project found that in systems where the cows were of high genetic merit (bred for high milk yield) and fed […]
McDonald’s unveils free tool to help farmers beef-up their bottom line
McDonald’s UK today unveiled a digital business tool for the beef sector that enables farmers to calculate potential financial savings by highlighting efficiency-based changes they can make to their daily operations. During a series of farm assessments, a beef farmer based in Dorset, farming 227 hectares, used McDonald’s ‘What If?’ business tool to identify potential […]
NFU President: TB is destroying farm business and it must be stopped
More has to be done to stop TB from destroying farming businesses. With one Dorset farmer set to lose nearly a quarter of his dairy herd to the disease, NFU President Meurig Raymond said he would be taking this message to the heart of government. “Today is just one example of what is happening on […]
RPA releases March 2014 milk production figures
The United Kingdom wholesale milk deliveries totalled 1,246.6 million litres in March figures published by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) show. At the same time last year this figure was 1,111.6 million litres. The cumulative total for the year is now 13,669.9 million litres. At the same point in 2013 this figure was 12,974.1 million […]
Stockcroft Pigs joins LEAF to benefit from environmental expertise
Pork producer Stockcroft Pigs has joined sustainable farming organisation LEAF – Linking Environment And Farming – as a corporate member. Stockcroft Pigs is looking to implement LEAF’s Integrated Farm Management (IFM) sustainable farming principles across its 50 contracted farms based in the South, West of England and Wales. IFM is a whole farm business approach […]
Farmer’s despair as nearly a quarter of closed dairy herd lost to bovine TB
Dorset dairy farmer Paul Gould is facing the prospect of losing nearly a quarter of his closed dairy herd after the animals reacted positively at his latest routine bovine TB test. Mr Gould said: “I’ve had 36 reactors, including 31 of my in-calf heifer replacements which were due to calve in this year. Let’s be […]
Princess is wrong to back badger gassing
Reports that Princess Anne would back the gassing of badgers, rather than shooting, as part of a cull to reduce bovine TB have caused outrage and disappointment. Dominic Dyer, CEO of the Badger Trust and Policy Advisor to Care for the Wild, said: “The anti-badger cull protest movement is one of the biggest we’ve ever […]
