North East Farmers Training Together To Be The Best
A GROUP of forward-thinking farmers have received funding to take part in innovative training sessions to help them remain at the top of their game. Border Crop Management (BCM) has been awarded over 12,000 from Landkskills North East, part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), which is managed by Lantra, the Sector Skills […]
Potato Europe 2009 Closed Off Very Successfully
PotatoEurope in Emmeloord, the Netherlands has closed very successfully this evening. Provisional counting shows that a little less than 11,000 people from over 50 countries visited the event. One third of these visitors came from outside the Netherlands. The huge exhibition hall was packed for two days with interested people from the entire international potato […]
Gleadell Market Update
FEED WHEAT UK wheat prices have eased again, despite a weaker : rate, as futures markets around the world have all set contract lows, says David Sheppard, managing director, Gleadell Agriculture. Anticipating a potential further fall in UK prices, some UK co-ops have been seen aggressively selling UK feed wheat into northern Spain and Portugal […]
Avoid Greedy Pigmans Disease
With high pig prices there is a temptation to push production as hard as possible. The advent of circovirus vaccines has allowed some producers to cut corners on stocking density, downtimes for cleaning buildings and other management tasks previously needed to control PMWS, says Paul Thompson, veterinary consultant to pig-breeding company, ACMC Ltd. This is […]
Application Of Ethylene Greatest Breakthrough In The Seed Potato Sector
– Restrain Company Ltd.winner PotatoEurope 2009 Innovation Award – Emmeloord, 8 September 2009 At the end of the first PotatoEurope 2009 congress day the PotatoEurope 2009 Innovation Award was handed out this evening to the company Restrain Company Ltd for its product titled Restrain Generator. This product has been chosen by a qualified jury out […]
Local Food Firm Calls out for Local Growers
JR Holland Food Services, a leading North East food service provider is collaborating with a series of local farms and growers in the region to ensure fresh produce is sourced locally for its expanding client list. As the official supplier to many of the regions Local Authorities which include schools and councils, as well as […]
New Precision Instrumentation On Show At Fruit Focus
At the recent Fruit Focus exhibition Labcell introduced a range of precision instruments of interest to fruit growers and producers of juices and wines, including soil moisture probes manufactured by Decagon Devices. Labcell offers the full range of soil moisture probes and can advise on which will be the most suitable for particular applications. In […]
Gene Controlling Plant Cell Growth Discovered
Understanding how plant cells grow and develop is essential to achieving increases in the size and yield of crops, one of the fundamental goals of plant science research. While mechanisms governing plant cell growth are known to exist, the genetic origins of such mechanisms have remained unclear. With their latest discovery, published in the journal […]
Gleadell Fertiliser Report
Seasonal Nitrogen sales are running at 20-25% behind levels seen at the same time last year so, although the market is steady today, demand will start to increase as autumn drilled acreages increase, says Calum Findlay, Gleadell Agricultures fertiliser trader. There are small parcels of UK manufactured nitrogen still available for Oct/November; these remain good […]
