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28/02/07
The innovative knotter design on the QUADRANT 3400
square baler for binding bales was the only gold medal winner
in the harvesting category at SIMA.
28/02/07
Semex bulls are showing they have what it takes
to add to dairy producers’ bottom line, taking the top three
rankings in the all-important Canadian Proofs’ Lifetime
Profitability Index (LPI).
28/02/07
Just
three weeks into the mineral nitrogen testing season and
Kemira GrowHow is reporting a surge in demand for its N-Min
service.
27/02/07
NFUS
Chief Executive Andy Robertson has joined leaders of Europe’s
other farming unions in Brussels to discuss the future of farm
support.
27/02/07
SAC
vets, Brian Hosie and George Mitchell, are advising all Scottish
flock owners to test the sheep wormer they plan to use this
season during the next few weeks.
27/02/07
On the 15th March 2007 at Dalfibble
Farm, Dumfries, John Mackie will disperse his herd of Holstein
cattle. This will be one of the largest sales this year with
500 head selling in one day.
27/02/07
The
Board of Commissioners at the Meat and Livestock Commission
(MLC) has appointed Richard Lowe as the organisation’s
Chief Executive Officer.
27/02/07
Following further misinformation regarding
Less Favoured Areas Support Scheme (LFASS) payments, NFUS is
again clarifying the current position.
26/02/07
The NFU is launching
a new insurance policy to cover the cost of rent arbitration
and the determination of disputes by the Agricultural Land
Tribunal.
26/02/07
The Reserve Champion Parton Spotlight 2nd was
bred and exhibited by Messrs Hewson, Parton Farm, Wigton and
realised 2,800gns.
23/02/07
At
today’s NFU Scotland Council meeting in Dunblane,
Jim McLaren was elected as the new President of NFU Scotland.
23/02/07
The rate of growth of farmland prices has trebled,
reaching the highest levels in the survey’s history,
reports the RICS rural land market survey published today (23
February).
22/02/07
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 84 prime cattle, 3 young beef bulls, 5379 hoggs and
5195 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Thursday 22nd February, 2007.
22/02/07
A packed ringside of buyers at Perth
saw the Simmentals reach a New Breed Record of £22,000 and a Record Breed
Average of £4487, an increase of £1084 on the
year, with a clearance of 82%.
22/02/07
Solid demand for quality Charolais
bulls from the profit fuelled commercial sector underpinned
a flying trade at the breed society’s
official sale in Perth, on Wednesday 21 February.
22/02/07
AN
invitation to get down to business at the George and Dragon
has been issued to food professionals by the English Beef and
Lamb Executive (EBLEX).
22/02/07
Farmers should aerate compacted soils to invigorate
grass growth and to allow oxygen and water to penetrate into
the soil. Kingshay includes this advice in a recent technical
bulletin to dairy farmers.
22/02/07
Kingshay
has figures to show that lameness can cost over £6,000
per 100 cows in some herds through lost milk, treatment and
labour costs and increased culling rates.
22/02/07
An analysis of prices paid
for Aberdeen-Angus bulls at the Perth sales two weeks ago clearly
shows that buyers are seeking bulls with a high terminal sire
index.
22/02/07
Animal health
and nutrition specialist, SCA NuTec, has added a lamb colostrum
to its well-known Shepherdess range.
21/02/07
A
group of Borders farmers have set their store to trade beyond
the farm gate in premium products through a newly formed
company.
20/02/07
Managers
and staff at one of south-east England’s
longest-established farm machinery retailers, E O Culverwell
Ltd, are looking forward to a boost in sales of agricultural
equipment having joined Landini’s network of tractor
dealers.
20/02/07
A Limousin firework display
lit up Carlisle on Saturday 17th February 2007 at the breed’s
annual Spring Sale as a high quality show of bulls smashed
the pedigree record books.
20/02/07
Students
from Harrogate College hoping to break into the world of fashion
are being urged to take part in a competition to find the area's
answer to Stella McCartney or Bruce Oldfield.
19/02/07
Lyndon
Edwards has been elected RABDF chairman. He brings a comprehensive
wealth of knowledge and experience to the Association as an
agri-businessman and practical farmer.
16/02/07
TWO
new faces have joined the ranks of the British Pig Executive
(BPEX) with the aim of helping producers help themselves.
16/02/07
Calderdale cattlemen claimed both championship
and reserve championship honours on “Craven Champions
Day,” the
annual high profile show and sale of store cattle with future
show potential at Skipton Auction
Mart.
16/02/07
The
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dairy Farming published
its 2006 Annual Report this week.
16/02/07
Farmers
in the north of England are depending on subsidies for their
survival, according to new research from rural business advisers.
15/02/07
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 118 prime cattle, 11 young beef bulls, 6,178 hoggs
and 4,771 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Thursday 15th February, 2007.
15/02/07
Semex UK has seen a number of sires obtaining improved scores
and two established bulls gaining actual Type Merits for the
first time.
15/02/07
Scotland’s biennial national sheep event,
Scotsheep, will be returning to the Borders in 2008.
15/02/07
Natural England’s
plans for creating a statutory right of access to coastal
land have been sharply criticised by the NFU as being a
recipe for confrontation and controversy.
15/02/07
UK
cattle producers can claim a free practical farm pocket book – packed with a mine of handy farming reference
data and conversion tables – from trade outlets selling
the Autoworm worming bolus this season.
14/02/07
Future prospects for the North’s arable farmers are
improving against a background of an increasing demand for
biofuels, a growing world population and global warming.
14/02/07
Peter Stovold, 53, a Surrey
farmer with interests in beef, sheep, cereals, horses and farm
diversification, has been appointed to the new post of executive
show director to stage the Royal Show this year.
14/02/07
Famous faces from
across the political spectrum, gold medal-winning athletes
and leading environmentalists have all shown their support
for British agriculture by signing up to the NFU’s
Why Farming Matters campaign.
14/02/07
Research work in Gloucestershire which has revealed
a dramatic increase in the incidence of TB in badger populations
has provided the clearest explanation yet for a parallel
increase of TB in the cattle population, says the NFU.
14/02/07
The
sizzle of succulent pork is music to the ears and that theme
has been picked up as part of a £500,000 Love QSM Pork
advertising campaign.
14/02/07
This
year’s NFU Annual Conference, at the Birmingham
Metropole Hotel on February 26 and 27, will have its eyes
fixed firmly on the future of farming.
13/02/07
A
new beef checkoff-funded website tells the US beef production
story -- often in the words of beef producers themselves.
13/02/07
3 bulls born in Scotland feature strongly for
Cogent in the February Proof Run.
13/02/07
Maerdy Abraham, a two year old Charolais bull was exported
to France this week, the first British Charolais to return
to the breed’s native country for more than
20 years.
12/02/07
EXPORTS
of British meat and livestock products have crashed through
the £1 billion barrier for the first time in
more than ten years.
12/02/07
The first Better Selection
events held under the EBLEX Beef Better Returns Programme (Beef
BRP) were fully booked before they were even publicised.
12/02/07
WHERE
exactly does Beefy keep his Quality Standard Mark? The answer
comes under close scrutiny in the latest TV advertisement from
EBLEX which is to be screened from Thursday.
12/02/07
Six years on from the
start of the foot and mouth epidemic
which devastated Cumbria’s livestock industry, auction
markets in the county are selling more cattle and sheep through
the market – at a greater turnover.
09/02/07
Limousin has become the first
beef breed in the world to take advantage of sexed semen technology.
08/02/07
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 69 prime cattle, 7 young beef bulls, 4,898 hoggs
and 5,087 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
on Thursday 8th February, 2007.
08/02/07
Ledbury-based farm
equipment retailer Richard Tooby has won the southern Dealer of the Year award from Italian
tractor maker Landini for the second year running.
08/02/07
NFU Scotland and the
Scottish Tenant Farmers Association have been co-ordinating
a united effort with other key rural organisations, in working
towards a sustainable future for the tenanted sector.
08/02/07
A 5.2 metre version of the Pro-Longer hedgecutter, plus the option of
crank arm models for this and the 5.7 metre machine, feature in Kuhn Farm Machinery’s
extended range of long reach hedge and verge maintenance equipment.
07/02/07
Scotland’s farming union is
asking farmers, their families and the wider public to identify
supermarkets that may be confusing shoppers by mixing meat
from different countries of origin in the same shelf space.
07/02/07
FAO today expressed confidence
in the capacity of authorities in the United Kingdom to adequately
respond to the recent outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza at a
commercial turkey farm there.
07/02/07
Some
UK cattle producers could make up to an extra £24
per animal this summer simply by changing their usual worming
regime.
07/12/06
Somatic cell
counts, mastitis cases and mastitis culling rates were all
reduced in US dairy herds where an organic selenium source
replaced inorganic selenium in rations.
06/02/07
On
2nd February 2007 at the 6th
European Open Holstein Show held in Montichiari, Italy
a UK bred Holstein was exhibited and won in flamboyant
style.
06/02/07
The tractor industry
should “get real” with
the prices it advertises for its products and use discounts
more intelligently than as a simple “give-away”,
says a leading industry figure.
06/02/07
ENGLAND
AWAKE - and put the sizzle back into your sex life with a home
cooked steak dinner and a message on a special website.
06/02/07
NFU Scotland has
commended the Crofting Community Development Scheme (CCDS)
over the course of its six-year existence.
06/02/07
Budding bovine stars of the future
are set to line up on “Craven
Champions Day,” the first major cattle show of the
year at Craven Cattle Marts’ Skipton Auction Mart next
Wednesday, February 14.
05/02/07
Following a confirmed
outbreak of H5N1 avian flu virus on a turkey farm near Lowestoft
in Suffolk, various restrictions have been put in place.
05/02/07
The National Beef Association
has told cattle farmers that they will make it more difficult
to secure approval for a committed badger cull in TB infected
areas if they continue to fight against the adoption of pre-movement
testing.
03/02/07
SCA NuTec’s 24-hour, seven-days- a-week support line
for its Shepherdess orphan lamb feeding system is now up
and running and will continue for the duration of this year’s
lambing season.
02/02/07
Succession to an Agricultural Holdings
Act 1986 agricultural tenancy is not automatic and planning
for succession to a tenanted farm is extremely important.
01/02/07
The
Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had
forward 87 prime cattle, 4 young beef bulls, 6,176 hoggs
and 5,405 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown
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