Tesco CEO vows to double amount of meat bought from Northern Ireland farmers
Tesco CEO Philip Clarke has announced that the supermarket will double the amount it spends on buying fresh beef, pork and chicken from Northern Ireland farmers. Mr Clarke was speaking at the launch of Queen’s University Belfast’s £33M Institute of Global Food Security which will improve global food safety through the establishment of an international […]
DuPont Joins Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework
DuPont has joined the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework. Under the framework, the OCS provides a one-stop-shop to enable new opportunities for collaboration between DuPont and Israeli start-up companies. The framework also provides equal investment with DuPont in R&D projects in […]
Aphids forecast to fly considerably later this year
The HGCA service, led by Rothamsted Research, uses aphid data from the suction trap network and long-term weather data to forecast the start of aphid flights and aphid abundance in spring and early summer. Dr Susannah Bolton, HGCA Head of Research and KT, said, “Average temperatures in January and February can be used to forecast […]
‘Planting the Seeds of Innovation’
CropWorld Global 2013, the annual agricultural industry event run by UBM Live, will focus exclusively on helping the industry to innovate – through its ‘planting the seeds of innovation’ campaign. The new approach better reflects macroeconomic factors and follows the commissioning of extensive research and the results of recommendations taken from the leaders of the […]
Aberdeenshire farmer clocks off after 45 years service
Willie Thomson, a tractor driver at Delab Farm, Monymusk, which has been managed by The Co-operative Farms since 1995, plans to spend his well-earned retirement gardening and with his family. The 65-year-old, who harvested 3,050 acres last season, was responsible for combining, spraying and ploughing, as well as relief cattle work, including feeding and calving […]
Pupils bring local food to the playground
Through a project funded by the Central Warwickshire Leader programme, the Soil Association and Mid Wales Food and Land Trust are working with 10 schools across Warwickshire to set up farmers’ markets in the school hall or playground – organised entirely by pupils. In the classroom, pupils are applying their enterprise skills to establish regular […]
MEP says Paterson was as “impotent as a bullock or gelding” in dealing with the horsemeat scandal
During a debate in the European Parliament on the horsemeat scandal today (12th March 2013), East of England MEP, Stuart Agnew (UKIP) has described the Secretary of State for Agriculture, Owen Paterson, as being “as impotent as a bullock or a gelding” in attempting to deal with the horsemeat issue. Mr Agnew, who is the […]
Be aware of risk to peas from pea bruchid
A specially commissioned factsheet looking at the management and control options for the pest pea bruchid (Bruchus pisorum), which causes damage to vining peas in Europe is now available from the Horticultural Development Company (HDC). The HDC factsheet, written by Becky Ward of the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO), includes a detailed guide to […]
