Source straw bedding early

Source straw bedding early

4:58pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THE Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board is urging livestock producers to start planning now to secure their straw supply and has launched a new web page to help.

Study aims to reduce farms' water footprint

4:53pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

REDUCING water use on beef and sheep farms is the aim of a research and development project recently launched by EBLEX.

'Super wheat' could increase yield by 30%

4:52pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

BRITISH scientists have developed a new type of “super wheat” which could increase the crop’s yield by 30 per cent.

Warning to stop seed weevils

Warning to stop seed weevils

4:49pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

OILSEED rape growers have been warned to be on the lookout for seed weevil activity in crops after reported sightings of adult insects in southern England following the warm spell.

Incomes fall by 14 per cent year-on-year

4:48pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

TOTAL farm incomes have fallen by 14 per cent year-on-year, with overall income falling by £737 million to £4.4 billion between 2011 and 2012.

Tesco's pledge to help British farms

Tesco's pledge to help British farms

4:46pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

THE NFU has called on Tesco to help bring profitability back to British farming and put more British food on British plates after the retailer’s commercial director Kevin Grace addressed the NFU Council.

New grass list

3:25pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

EIGHT new varieties feature in the HGCA Recommended Grass and Clover Lists (RGCL) handbook for 2013 launched last month. They include five varieties of tetraploid perennial ryegrass – the early Carriag, intermediates AberClyde, Aston Bonus and Pensel and the late variety Alfonso, a diploid Italian ryegrass, Javorio, the tetraploid hybrid ryegrass Palmata and a white clover, Buddy.

Poor weather leads to smaller lamb crop

3:24pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

POOR weather conditions have led to the 2013 UK lamb crop being revised down to 15.8 million head, eight per cent lower than the estimated 2012 crop which it was expected to equal, according to the latest forecast from EBLEX/AHDB.

Rare black lamb quads born at college

Agriculture students Laura Claxton and Dan fellows with the quads

3:20pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

SPARSHOLT College is celebrating a first – four black lambs born from the same dam.

Neonic ban to cost UK millions

Neonic ban to cost UK millions

3:18pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

THE European Commission is to restrict the use of neonicitinoid pesticides, which some researchers have linked to bee deaths, following a 15 to eight vote of EUmember states.

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