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Feb 05
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15/03/05
NFU Scotland has welcomed the announcement today by Ministers of an independent
review of the levy bodies which promote food and farming. The review begins in
April and is expected to last for six months.
15/03/05
Two well-known Welsh Border beef farms and IGER’s Bronydd Mawr Research
Station will be the venues for a farm tour to be held as part of this year’s
Beef Expo 2005 in Wales.
14/03/05
Delayed growth will make late spring and early summer brome control in winter
wheat particularly important this season, warns Agrovista technical manager,
Mark Hemmant.
10/03/05
An excellent catalogue of in excess of 450 cattle ensured all the regular buyers
and more besides were in attendance on the day.
14/03/05
Unfounded talk of certain delays in the repeal of the OTM rule will encourage
importers to commit themselves to manufacturing beef deliveries well beyond the
expected September return of domestic cows to the commercial market, the National
Beef Association has warned.
14/03/05
The National Beef Association is putting together a proposal to Defra that will
justify the spending of around £100 million a year to support the English
SDA after the current £27.5 million HFA system ends in December 2006.
11/03/05
The leading price of 4,000gns secured the supreme champion shown by Caylers Charolais
of Hertfordshire at the Charolais Society March show and sale.
11/03/05
Hillhead Upper, consigned by Northern Ireland breeders Hillhead Blondes from
the Rodgers family at Co. Down, secured the days leading price of 4,800gns at
the Carlisle show and sale.
11/03/05
Dairy farmers must embrace change by turning the
massive challenges presented by MTR and the changing global
framework to their advantage. Those were the key messages
emerging from the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers
National Dairy Conference staged in Cheltenham, in association
with NatWest and the Dairy Supply Chain Forum.
11/03/05
The NFU is calling on the British Potato Council (BPC) to address the concerns
of growers following Defra's decision to support the levy body for a further
five years.
11/03/05
Defra has published changes to its guidance on the control of bird species under
the so-called "general licence" following some misinterpretation of
the new system.
11/03/05
Results from NMR's latest Annual Production Report - just published on its web
site - show that more than 85% of herds rely on a fully assisted milk recording
service, despite the range in milk recording services now available.
11/03/05
Durham butcher Harry Coates has been on a mission that's very deer to his heart!
10/03/05
Representatives of AIC, NAAC, nabim, NFU and RHA met in May 2004 to consider
ways they can co-operate to obviate or reduce the potentially damaging effects
of the Working Time Directive for mobile workers. Now, on the eve of the introduction
of the Directive in the UK, the same organisations have reinforced their statement
of co-operation.
09/03/05
The Pye Bibby Agriculture mill at Langwathby has become one of the few animal
feed mills in the country to achieve a prestigious environmental accreditation.
09/03/05
The Ploughing World Record has been broken by Case IH and its Steiger STX500
Quadtrac tractor.
08/03/05
The majority of Scottish farmers who wish to apply to the Single Farm Payment
National Reserve must have their applications in by next Monday, 14 March. Five
of the eight categories, which will cover the vast majority of National Reserve
applications, close on this date.
08/03/05
A butchery demonstration for local sheep producers highlighting the market preference
for lean lambs will be the focus of an EBLEX Better Returns Programme (BRP) Evening
Meeting at The Fountain Hotel, Hawes.
08/03/05
NFU Scotland has welcomed the announcement today by Defra and the devolved administrations
that two more significant steps have been taken towards the unwinding of the
Over Thirty Months Scheme.
08/03/05
If the most influential deadweight cattle buyers do not react sensibly to calls
to reduce dressing specification confusion and drop unjustified post-slaughter
deductions they will force even more finishers into the auction system, the National
Beef Association warned today.
08/03/05
The Centre Record at Chelford for a Belgian Blue was smashed on Saturday 5th
March 2005 at the 41st National Show and Sale on behalf of the British Belgian
Blue Society.
08/03/05
Anthony Skelton from Carlisle based Auctioneers, Harrison & Hetherington
Limited has been presented with the top student of the year award at the recent
conference of the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland.
07/03/05
Avoncroft has introduce a new generation of sires from Holland Genetics that
has moved cattle breeding goalposts and rearranged the PLI rankings after the
February proof run.
07/03/05
The
beef farmer's search for cost reductions must extend to drug
price cuts and significant discounts on processed arable
sector waste like sugar beet pulp and distillery bi-products.
04/03/05
Milk producers are receiving their last routine Herd Genetic
Report this month, March, from the Milk Development Council’s
genetic evaluation unit (MDCEL).
04/03/05
Senior
politicians last night called on the Government to compensate
swill processors whose industry they shut down during foot
and mouth disease in 2001.
04/03/05
Low-input,
fast-maturing Blonde d’Aquitaine pedigree and crossbred
cattle are integral to the farming system at Jubilee Buildings,
Broomley, near Stockfield in Northumberland.
04/03/05
Award
winning Royal Show judge, Peter Howells is scheduled to judge
the entry of Charolais bulls at the breed society’s official
early spring show at Harrison & Hetherington’s Borderway
Mart, in Cumbria on Friday March 11, prior to them coming under
the hammer later that day.
04/03/05
A unique on-farm event in
South Cumbria connecting the food chain between farm gate and
the restaurant plate was attended by chefs from throughout
the region on Tuesday (March 1).
04/03/05
The vast majority of English early lamb producers could
boost their profits by as much as £2.50/lamb by cutting
just one week from the industry standard 20-week rearing
time, according to the latest English Beef and Lamb Executive
(EBLEX) calculations.
04/03/05
Significant
progress has been made towards the planned OTM rule change
in the three months since its announcement. However, the English
Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX) has called on all sides of
the beef industry to continue to work hard over the coming
three months.
04/03/05
Management and protection of some of the North East's most
characteristic landscape, wildlife and historic features
are options now available to all farmers and land managers
under a new scheme launched yesterday by the Government.
03/03/05
The countryside of the North East will change for the better
if farmers take full advantage of a new government payment
scheme to restore wildlife to their land, predicts the RSPB.
03/03/05
Annual Prize Show and Sale of individual
Swaledale ewes and Swaledale Flock Books on behalf of
the Swaledale Sheep Breeders Association.
03/03/05
The current dispute between supermarket Sainsbury's and
their suppliers highlights the frequent breakdown in trust
in the relationship between the major retailers and suppliers,
according to NFU Scotland.
02/03/05
The new Environmental Stewardship Scheme, launching tomorrow
(3 March) will help unlock the potential of rural land to
deliver major environmental benefits in an economically viable
way says the Country Land & Business Association (CLA).
02/03/05
Two farmers who have helped protect some of Scotland's rarest
species, including the Golden Eagle and Red Kite, have been
rewarded through one of Scotland's top conservation awards.
02/03/05
Major increases
in the price of baler twine, round bale netwrap, silage sheeting
and silage stretch film will face farmers and contractors
when they start looking to secure their crop packaging requirements
for 2005.
02/03/05
Defra has today published a set of ground rules that will
help Government, vets, farmers, and wildlife groups tackle
bovine TB.
01/03/05
A brighter future could be on the cards for birds such as
lapwing and curlew when farmers in the Pennines find out
more about conservation management techniques on farmland
at a special event organised by the RSPB on Thursday 10 March.
01/03/05
Defra's new Environmental Stewardship Scheme, which will
form a central part of the biggest changes to farming for
a generation, will be launched nationally on 3 March 2005.
01/03/05
The National Beef Association is pleased Defra has at last
acknowledged that new strategies must be introduced to reduce,
and then eliminate, bovineTB and promises it will help Minister's
and officials to develop them.
01/03/05
The NFU in Cumbria is trying to dispel myths within the
farming community that the National Fallen Stock Company
(NFSCo) dictates the prices that collectors are now charging.
01/03/05
North Sheep, the National Sheep Association northern region’s
biennial event to be staged on Wednesday 1 June at Whinfell
Park, near Penrith in Cumbria has received industry backing
worth more than £16,000. |
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Plans are well advanced
for the UK's national beef event, Beef Expo 2005, to be held
at Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, on Wednesday, June 8. |
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