Celebrities create a buzz for local bee charity
BBC bee lovers including Sophie Raworth, Kirsty Wark, Jeremy Paxman, James Naughtie and Bill Turnbull will be attending an exclusive bee garden party on July 1st hosted by Martha Kearney from Radio Four, presenter of The Wonder of Bees and Hive Alive. The sold out charity event is being held in the beautiful gardens of Lambeth […]
Importance of disease resistance ratings on show at open day
Visitors to HGCA’s open day at Duchy College, Cornwall, got a vivid reminder about the value of varietal resistance when dealing with crop diseases. As is typical of Cornwall, the trial site faces particularly strong disease pressure, with this season’s warm, wet winter and heavy spring showers driving development of septoria tritici in wheat and […]
Harvesting success for children at Kids Country event
Over 400 local school children recently returned to the East of England Showground, for a dedicated Kids Country event, to harvest an abundance of potatoes and beetroot that they had planted earlier on in the year. Following from the successful crop planting day, that the showground hosted in March, the children aged from 7 to […]
Conference success shows industry support
This year’s MEA Dealer Conference was hailed a real success after over 80 dealers, technicians, processers and parlour manufacturers attended to discuss the Parlour Safe scheme and learn more about plans for 2014. Hosted at Warwick Racecourse early in June, the Conference’s content was focused firmly on ‘what’s in it for me?’ and saw keynote […]
National Dairy Show records
Stall bookings for the National Dairy Show have reached record levels. Over 200 stalls have so far been allocated for the show to be staged at the Livestock Event, at The NEC, Birmingham on Wednesday 2 and 3 Thursday July. “The National Dairy Show featuring seven different breeds is going from strength to strength. Over […]
Cereals cements its position as the UK’s leading arable event
Almost 25,000 people attended this year’s sun-drenched Cereals event to catch up with the latest technical advances, machinery innovations and business advice. CAP greening measures, blackgrass and grain prices were key talking points at the event, which took place at Chrishall Grange, near Duxford, Cambridgeshire on the 11th and 12th June. Despite these potentially bearish […]
20pc increase in yield possible through agri-tech says Cereals seminar
New technologies in breeding, monitoring and decision-making have the potential to increase yield sustainably by 5% – 20%, according to speakers at a technical seminar hosted by Agri-Tech East at Cereals 2014. Seminar speaker, Dr Cristobal Uauy, wheat geneticist at the John Innes Centre (JIC) and National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) says that the […]
Vintage tractors on display at The 40th Steam and Vintage Extravaganza
The Gloucestershire Steam & Vintage Extravaganza, now in its 40th year, will take place once again at South Cerney Airfield, Cirencester. From Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd August 2014. The extravaganza will attract more than 15,000 visitors and raise money for local and national charities. The show has grown dramatically in recent years and is now […]
LEAF organisers declare Open Farm Sunday 2014 the best one yet
Farmers and their helpers were celebrating this weekend as the response to Open Farm Sunday was overwhelmingly positive. National organisers, LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), have reported that a record number of visitors attended an Open Farm Sunday event on Sunday 8 June. While final figures are still being obtained, LEAF estimates that visitor numbers […]
