Successful year for UKs leading farmers cooperative
AtlasFram Group, the UKs leading farm inputs purchasing and crop marketing business, has announced a highly-successful financial year to 30th June 2010, during which it celebrated its 50th anniversary. The farmers cooperative, which has Members throughout the UK, achieved a turnover of 139 million and a group surplus of 28,448 after tax. Volume increases in […]
FUW welcomes Glastir review
The Farmers’ Union of Wales today welcomed the decision to set up an independent review panel into the Welsh Assembly Government’s controversial land management scheme, Glastir, after it received fewer than 3,000 applications from farmers. “Some serious questions now need to be asked as to why we are in this situation,” said FUW president Gareth […]
New labelling initiative is a step in the right direction, says NFU
New guidelines to ensure accurate country of origin labelling on British meat and dairy products are a step in the right direction, the NFU said today. The Principles on Country of Origin Information document has been developed by the trade bodies of the food manufacturing, retailing, commercial catering and hospitality sectors and is backed by […]
Fair price needed for poultry industry, says NFU
The NFU is calling for poultry famers to be given a price that covers their increasing costs of production with soaring feed prices leaving some producers making a loss. Despite recent work to strengthen relationships between British poultry producers and retailers the NFU believes recent inflation in feed prices needs to be reflected in price […]
Work continues to make new EID regulations workable in the field
The NFU is optimistic that a workable solution can be found to the problems of cross compliance failures surrounding the implementation of Electronic Identification in sheep after a meeting between EU Commissioner Dalli and Defra Farming Minister Jim Paice. The EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer policy John Dalli, visited Mr Paice following a personal invitation […]
HRH The Prince of Wales announces global Campaign for Wool
The Campaign for Wool (CfW), the cross industry organisation convened by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to promote the understanding and use of wool, is to extend its promotional activities and will go global next year. The Prince told delegates at the British Wool Marketing Boards annual conference in Bradford today that next […]
New Diesel engine for 2010 model year Patriot
Changes to the diesel-powered Patriot medium-sized SUV have recently been announced by Jeep, with details of a powerful new engine, improved fuel economy, greater torque and improved trim levels. The current 2.0 Volkswagen diesel engine has just been replaced with a modern 163bhp 2.2 CRD engine sourced from Mercedes-Benz, offering a significantly wider spread of […]
European victory saves British grocers 280m
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has saved UK grocers more than 280m after lobbying successfully for a change to new European food traceability regulations. If it had remained unchanged, proposal 1490/2007, which will be formally adopted later this year, would have forced British grocers to carry out a completely unnecessary and costly alteration to the […]
Spaldings extends product offering with Broekema partnership
The new range of Broekema webs, sprockets and rollers provide heavy duty and reliable spares to the root crop farmer Spaldings today announced the introduction of Broekema to their product portfolio. The extensive new range of products includes webs, rollers and sprockets to fit most popular makes of stone separators, potato harvesters and sugar beet […]
