The Taste of Success
Joseph Heler Cheese are celebrating this month as the quality of their product is recognised at the Oscars of the food world, the Great Taste Awards 2011. Receiving a Gold 1 star for their famous Blue Cheshire Cheese, Joseph Heler, the largest independent regional cheese-producers in the UK, are proud to have shone through over […]
FUW demands more fibre to cut broadband ‘not spots’
Welsh farmers want more fibre and wireless connections to help speed up broadband connections to their farms and cut the number of not-spots in the countryside. That was the message delivered by Farmers Union of Wales deputy president Glyn Roberts at the Royal Welsh Show today (Wednesday July 20). He called for a similar scheme […]
URALCHEM leads the European fightback against the soil-based sulphur deficiency
URALCHEM, OJSC, one of the worlds leading fertiliser manufacturers, gears up to provide solutions to solve the global crisis in the soil-based sulphur deficit by becoming the first European fertiliser producer to join the The Sulphur Institute (TSI). Recently the Company took part in a meeting of the Working Group of the European Committee of […]
Frome Show – top trainer sponsors racehorse class
CHAMPION NATIONAL Hunt trainer Paul Nicholls is to sponsor a major new class at Frome Show this year. The Ditcheat based trainer, who has top racers Kauto Star, Big Bucks and Denman under training at his Manor Farm Stables, has put his name to the Thoroughbred and Retired Racehorse Association class which will act as […]
Badger culling method risks making bovine TB worse – George
The Liberal Democrat’s Agriculture spokesman – Andrew George MP – has warned that the Government’s proposed badger culling ‘pilots’ risk making animal disease worse. The Government announces its plans to press ahead with its badger control measures today. They intend to commence with two pilot areas of at least 150 sq km in which at […]
Farmers mean business and have won awards to prove it!
An online dating and farming recruitment site, waste recycled for championship golf course aggregate and clever foresight on irrigation all caught the judges eyes, despite some testing times for the industry this year, in the annual Farm Business Competition run by the Suffolk Agricultural Association. The winners were announced last week over a presentation lunch […]
Badger cull supported by science, say vets
Veterinary associations have strongly welcomed the announcement by Defra that it is strongly minded to include a controlled cull of badgers as a key component of the bovine tuberculosis (TB) eradication plans for England. The British Veterinary Association (BVA) and its specialist cattle division the British Cattle Veterinary Association (BCVA) have long supported the need […]
CLA welcomes Governments bTB badger control plan
The CLA today (19 July) welcomed the Governments plan to allow a badger cull in England as part of a package of measures to fight bovine TB. CLA President William Worsley said: We are very relieved the Government is ready to give the go-ahead to a cull to help control bovine TB. This is the […]
Defras entire ministerial team to visit The CLA Game Fair
The entire Defra ministerial team is this week set to visit The CLA Game Fair the biggest event in the countryside calendar. Secretary of State Caroline Spelman, Minister of State Jim Paice, and Under-Secretaries of State Richard Benyon and Lord Henley are all scheduled to be at the event on the Blenheim Palace estate in […]
