Milk Link awards success at The Royal Highland Show
Milk Link cheese makers continued their successful run of show awards at the Royal Highland Show this year. Highlights included Llandyrnog Creamery’s Mature Cheddar being named the Supreme Champion whilst Lockerbie Creamery’s unsalted butter was named Reserve Champion, for a second year running. Of the 32 awards won in total, four were special category awards, […]
Latest Arion sets new mid-range standard
Since its launch, over 10,000 ARION tractors have been sold around the world, and in the UK, where the ARION range straddles the current average horsepower, and the Irish market, the ARION 640 has consistently been the top selling CLAAS tractor. As part of its ongoing product development and investment in its product range, CLAAS […]
Water Activity Analyser helps to assure quality of treated seeds
Compared with the methods being used previously, the AquaLab is faster, more accurate, cleaner, easier to use, safer for operatives and the environment, requires smaller samples and employs a non-destructive process. Small samples of seeds are removed from batches of horticultural and agricultural seeds that have been pelleted and film-coated. These are tested in the […]
British Wool Marketing Board’s work to be showcased at the Great Yorkshire Show
Incorporating the show’s highly popular fleece competition, which this year will see more than 220 entries competing for the championship award, the BWMB stand will feature a full range of information on all the Board’s activities, explains BWMB Chief Wool Marketing Officer Mark Powell. “Many sheep farmers may see the BWMB as a wool collection […]
SsangYong heads further off-road
Styled by Italian car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro of Ital Design, this latest addition to the Korando line-up is covered by the standard 5 year unlimited mileage warranty available on all SsangYong cars and priced from just £18,795 on the road. Korando SX is powered by a new low CO2 version of the Korando power unit. […]
The app that puts soil on the map!
Using mySoil you can view a map of soil parent material — the underlying geological material — click on an area to get information about soil depth, texture, pH and organic matter content, and explore vegetation habitat data across the UK. mySoil, produced by the NERC British Geological Survey (BGS) and the NERC Centre for […]
Bayer CropScience unveils new oilseed rape Expert guide
The guide, which is written by a number of independent advisers from ADAS and NIAB TAG, as well as internal Bayer CropScience experts, covers all aspects of oilseed rape production from sowing and autumn agronomy to yield maximisation and harvest. Unveiled at Cereals 2012, the guide goes into detail about each topic giving growers […]
On Farm Energy Generation event
With the agricultural sector being hard hit by ever diminishing revenue streams and rising energy costs, farmers are increasingly looking towards alternative resources to maximise the return from their land. Run in association with the Royal Agricultural Society of England, On-Farm Energy Generation looks at how you can generate an income stream from land-based energy, […]
Rothamsted Research and BBSRC launch “20:20 Wheat”
Plans to help increase potential wheat yields in the UK to 20 tonnes per hectare within the next 20 years have been launched by Rothamsted Research scientists and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). It is hoped that this programme will bring significant economic benefit to UK farmers as every one tonne […]
