Trelleborg attends prestigious Tractor of The Year® Awards as official partner
Based on the assessments carried out in the months preceding the event, the judging panel of 21 journalists from across the European agricultural industry’s most influential publications, will award the finalists in each category, as well as the winners of ‘Best of Specialized 2013’, ‘Golden Tractor for Design 2013’ and ‘Tractor of the Year 2013’. […]
Celebrating 60 years of agricultural advance
The Worshipful Company of Farmers will therefore be using this year’s Lord Mayor’s Show to highlight both the role of UK farming in feeding the nation over the past 60 years, but also how the farming industry is advancing to meet future food production needs. To demonstrate the advances made over the past 60 years, […]
Free information for farmers facing blackgrass
Its Grassweed Emergence Monitor (GEM) includes five winter wheat sites in Cambridgeshire, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire and three sown major grassweeds: blackgrass, sterile brome and Italian ryegrass, together with a ‘natural’ unsown blackgrass population. Four sites have been drilled so far: Oxfordshire, Herefordshire, Wiltshire and North Yorkshire. Cambridgeshire’s site is due to be […]
UK fertiliser industry sets world class standards – AIC
Speaking at the AIC Annual Fertiliser Dinner, Mr Brogden outlined how important these factors are for the whole of UK farming. The matter of fertiliser security and the threat of terrorism remains high on the agenda. “That the Queen’s Jubilee and Olympic games all passed off without incident is not just luck,” said Mr Brogden. […]
Nitrate warning as new NVZ map looms
The map, which shows the 59% of the country where strict rules on the use of nitrates apply, was re-drawn in the summer. It comes into force from 1 January 2013 and will affect the majority of English farms – some for the first time. Farms within an NVZ must observe restrictions on the quantity […]
Angry ‘badgers’ to protest against the ‘cull’ of the Agricultural Wages Board
To drive home the gravity of the crisis, a team of irate ‘badgers’ – another countryside community to suffer ill treatment at the hands of the government – will be protesting at a meeting of the AWB board at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA at […]
Olympic champion toasts new FUW offices with milk
A local girl from Flint, Jade is one of the latest personalities to front the UK nationwide “make mine Milk” campaign. She said: “Milk is a really important part of my diet and I’m looking forward to toasting the long-term success of the FUW’s new premises. “At the London Olympics I had to be in […]
BCPC Weed Review highlights technology solutions to compensate for product losses
“Despite the various regulatory challenges, loss of herbicides and ongoing build-up of resistance to current products the presentations made at this meeting demonstrated a range of innovative approaches being taken to address all of these critical issues,” said Gordon. “Weed control remains one of the most important factors to maintain sustainable food supplies and our […]
New team elected to represent Young Farmers
The elections, which took place at the Quality Hotel Coventry on Sunday 28 October, saw three female members elected to the top positions of Chairman and two Vice Chairmen. Milly Wastie, from Northamptonshire YFC, was voted in as the new national Chairman and Claire Worden, from Cornwall YFC, and Hannah Talbot, from Worcestershire YFC, were […]
