Baker Tilly Appointed to Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Limited (FWAG)
Adrian Allen and Mark Wilson, partners at Baker Tilly Restructuring and Recovery LLP, have been appointed Joint Administrators to the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Limited (Charity No: 326348) on the 18 of November. The Company is a registered charity that promotes environmentally responsible farming and land management providing technical advice and practical […]
Agricultural Shows beating recession
Agricultural show societies across Britain are weathering the economic storm by adding value for their trade and livestock exhibitors, at the same time as maintaining total attendance at a remarkable eight million people. That was the very positive message which came out of the Association of Shows and Agricultural Organisations (ASAO) conference, hosted by […]
Grgoire Besson Group expands into Asia and Africa with creation of new company, Agri Way
Grgoire Besson Group, a leader in agricultural cultivating machinery, has expanded its portfolio with the creation of Italy-based company, Agri Way. The new company was formed when Grgoire Besson purchased a facility in the Ancona province of Italy to specifically serve the agricultural markets in Africa and Asia. This latest addition to the […]
Newark declared an excellent venue for inaugural Calf Show
Twenty-three breeders exhibited over 50 calves for the inaugural Midlands and East Anglia Hereford Breeders’ Association Calf Show, held during the Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage Show. Organisers of the Calf Show declared it was an excellent venue for their event, which was incorporated into the Native & Rare Breeds Exhibition. With a […]
Kendall: farming and the environment must go hand in hand
NFU President Peter Kendall will today insist that a very necessary improvement in the UK’s agricultural productivity should not be at the expense of the natural environment, and challenge the ‘deliberate misunderstanding’ of the issue that has prevailed over the past few days. Speaking at the Centre for Excellence in UK farming (UKCEF) […]
NFU to push for responsible antibiotic use across Europe
NFU Vice President Gwyn Jones has pledged to help Europe’s livestock industry tackle antimicrobial resistance after being elected to one of the European Union’s most influential animal health and welfare committees. Mr Jones was voted in as Vice Chairman of the Copa Animal Health and Welfare Working Group which is made up of […]
Roofer Reaches Apex of Shearing World
“He just says ‘Yes’. He’s the sort of guy that if I ask him to cover a shearing course for me at very short notice, he will just say ‘Yes,’ and then worry about how he’ll manage to do it after.” This was just some of what Colin MacGregor, Shearing Training Manager at […]
Consumers need a leg up with farming knowledge, survey suggests
Results from a new survey [1] reveal that the vast majority (93 per cent) of people in Great Britain don’t know the best time of year to enjoy eating British lamb. Only seven per cent of respondents correctly identified Autumn as the time for tucking into one of Britain’s favourites, with half (49 […]
Same Deutz-Fahr celebrates its millionth tractor
On Friday, 11th November 2011, a SAME Frutteto3 S 90.3 Hi-Steer rolled off the production line in Treviglio to become the millionth tractor to be produced since 1927. This was the year when Francesco Cassani and his brother Eugenio introduced the Cassani tractor one of the first tractors in the world to be […]
