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Stackyard News |
edited by Jennifer MacKenzie |
Agricultural, Environmental, Countryside and Farming News from the UK and beyond.
2021-Mar-22 |
New, comprehensive, online tool helps farmers and landowners navigate post-EU subsidy regimes, as well as build their biodiversity and net zero carbon strategie
2021-Mar-01 |
Acrylamide forms during bread baking and its presence is further increased when bread is toasted, and the darker the toast, the more of this carcinogenic compound it contains.
2021-Feb-16 |
Investing in three identical John Deere 6250R tractors, capable of carrying out almost any task and equipped with the latest Michelin AxioBib 2 VF tyres to reduce soil compaction, has been key to improving operating efficiency for Bedfordshire-based Bedfordia Farms.
Cancellation of Children’s Countryside Day and Glendale Show
It is with very heavy hearts that Chairman Andrew Walton and the Board of Trustees of Glendale Agricultural Society have made the difficult decision to cancel the Children’s Countryside Day and Glendale Show.
2021-Feb-02 |
Following the announcement of its launch last month, Oxbury, the new specialist agricultural bank, has now fully launched its savings and loan operations, bringing UK farmers reassurance that they are being supported during an unpredictable time.
2021-Jan-26 |
Welshman Kevin Evans was top dog on price yet again at Skipton Auction Mart’s first online working sheep dog sale of 2021, selling three fully broken dogs for a combined £35,600, while his father David established a new world record price of £6,100 for an unbroken pup.
2021-Jan-22 |
Digitalisation has changed the way farmers record, curate and receive data. But with business-critical information now online, how easy is it to find what you are looking for? Not very, until now.
2021-Jan-11 |
94% of the European grey partridge population has been lost since 1980, according to a remarkable new bird atlas.
2021-Jan-07 |
The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) has given its support to the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament’s stance which declines to consent to the UK government’s Brexit trade deal.
2021-Jan-05 |
New Year sheep trade at Skipton Auction Mart got off to a flyer when the 1,545 prime hoggs on parade at the 2021 opener produced an overall selling average of 255 per kilo.
2021-Jan-05 |
The 2021 rearing calf show season began as the old one had ended with 2020 Christmas show victor, Alan Middleton, who trades under the family partnership of JP&KE Hartley at Lane House Farm, Beamsley, again standing champion.
2020-Dec-10 |
The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, organisers of Scotland’s biggest outdoor event, The Royal Highland Show, have launched tickets for the 2021 four-day event.
2020-Dec-09 |
Kverneland’s Enduro compact tine cultivator range has been extended with the addition of hydraulic folding models that accompany existing 3m and 3.5m fixed-frame versions.
2020-Dec-04 |
A new machine launched by feed preservation specialists, Kelvin Cave Ltd, is thought to be the largest roller mill on the UK and Irish marke