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Mar 05
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31/03/05
Defra
has confirmed a case of Contagious Equine Metritis Organism
(CEMO) in a horse in the Frome area of Somerset.
31/03/05
The
NFU's regional food and farming team are taking to the
road next week delivering a detailed presentation on issues
to consider when completing the new Single Payment Scheme
application form.
31/03/05
Pollen beetles are already apparent in significant numbers
in many oilseed rape crops and could cause similar pod set
problems to last season if growers are not very careful indeed,
warns national specialist, Mahon Brennan of OSR market leaders,
Monsanto.
30/03/05
The
NFU has called on Defra to ensure that as many farmers as
possible can apply for Environmental Stewardship.
29/03/05
JCB – the world’s largest privately-owned construction
equipment maker - is poised for greater global expansion
in its 60th anniversary year with the building of its first
ever Chinese factory.
29/03/05
British farmers should be proud of consistently producing
over 80% of the nation's milling wheat needs, but...
29/03/05
The national press could not have got its agricultural subsidy disclosure
stories more wrong, the National Beef Association said today.
26/03/05
Scottish agriculture's push in Brussels for a sensible timetable for
introducing the new food hygiene regulations is paying off.
26/03/05
Dairy hygiene and mastitis control specialists, Northern Dairy
Supplies of Preston were presented this week with the RABDF Prince
Philip Award 2004 by His Royal Highness at Buckingham Palace.
25/03/05
Effective research, development and knowledge transfer are the key to
helping the British pig industry become more competitive and deliver benefits
to society.
24/03/05
Mixed messages
on the Single Farm Payment continue to confuse farmers, according
to the Masstock group(1). In a bid to clarify the rules and
help farmers apply the reams of new regulations, the group
has been holding a number of meetings in the region, attended
by over 350 local farmers.
24/03/05
English beef producers should go through their animal paperwork with
a fine-toothed comb this spring and hand-in any passports they still hold from
animals that have died in the past, urges the English Beef and Lamb Executive
(EBLEX).
23/03/05
It has
been reported in the scientific journal Nature that in the
USA a small amount of GM maize (Bt 11, produced by Syngenta)
had been contaminated with another variety of unauthorised
GM corn (Bt 10).
23/03/05
A
historic new right for walkers to enjoy thousands of acres
of open land in the south west of England will be celebrated
on 28 August, rural affairs minister Alun Michael announced
today.
23/03/05
The lucky winner of the Crop Packaging Association’s free prize draw in
2005 will receive a complete silage wrapping system including a McHale 991 bale
wrapper, a pallet of netwrap and a pallet of stretch film.
23/03/2005
SA Fleckvieh, Purebred Simmental, Red Angus & SimmAngus
Spring 2005 Bull & Elite Female Sale
23/03/05
A range of projects from supplying organic pork burgers to school meals
providers and retailers to a major programme looking at three different production
systems have won grant aid.
23/03/05
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is calling
on the Government to trumpet the public benefits delivered
by the new payments made under the Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP)
23/03/05
NFU Scotland believes that far greater resources must be devoted to tackling
the massive problem of illegal meat imports.
22/03/05
Research
should focus more on helping to balance environmental,
social and economic issues in order to help consumers,
farmers, food producers and countryside communities, government
advisers said today.
22/03/05
Scotland's
farming union (NFU Scotland) has expressed its bewilderment
at the outcome of the Office of Fair Trading's audit on the
Supermarket Code of Practice.
22/03/05
Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael addresses the annual National Equine
Forum (NEF) at the Royal Veterinary College, London.
22/03/05
As potato planting gets into full swing across the country,
a newly-approved duo of treatments is destined to put a smile
on grower's faces with boosted tuber yield as well as top
quality skin finish.
22/03/05
Pig producers have expressed a number of concerns about the National
Fallen Stock Scheme but their biggest worry is biosecurity.
21/03/05
Specialist home
mixers, Feedmix Ltd, a company within the Harbro Group, are
expanding their operation in Yorkshire and the East of England
following the purchase of the long-established North Yorkshire
Mill and Mix business from Joe McKitten.
21/03/05
Graziers of livestock in the New Forest will shortly receive application
forms for the Single Payment Scheme Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael announced
today.
21/03/05
John
Helliar, a dairy farmer, was fined £1500 today after pleading guilty
to veterinary medicines offences. He was also ordered to pay costs of £2600.
22/03/05
Take-all
levels this spring are the highest for the past three years,
according to early season root assessment results from
Allied Grain’s second wheat
performance trials at Haywold in Yorkshire.
21/03/05
NFUS
has welcomed the publication of the draft Crofting
Reform Bill. The Bill, subject to consultation, lays out
in detail how the Scottish Executive intends to simplify
and update crofting law.
22/03/05
A revolutionary new computer program to help pig producers improve efficiency
and target production more directly to market requirements is being pioneered
by leading UK animal feed company, Harbro Ltd, of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
21/03/05
A study published on March 21 has shown that the abundance of wildlife
differs between GM herbicide-tolerant winter oilseed rape and its conventional
counterpart.
21/03/05
English sheep meat exports
held-up remarkably well over the past year despite weaker European
demand and stiff competition from Ireland and New Zealand.
21/03/05
Vendors who unwittingly sell bulls that prove infertile
can protect themselves from potentially heavy consequential
loss claims triggered by infertility if they buy a Private
Breeding Warranty produced by the National Beef Association.
21/03/05
IF DAIRY
farmers want to see an increase in the pence per litre
they get for their milk, they'll have to look for help
from Europe warns NFU North West Dairy Board Chairman -
Ray Brown.
21/03/05
The Battle for Berwick
is to be the focus of a new farm trail launched with the help
of Defra and English Heritage. The trail will provide a window
onto the battlefield, using specially designed glass panels.
20/03/05
ENGLISH beef topped the menu at a lunch to celebrate the selection of
Belgium's top Lady Chef.
20/03/05
THE control of summer biting flies and lice on cattle was the basis of
six years' work which has helped Phil Hadley gain his PhD in Animal Production
from the University of Nottingham.
19/03/05
Top price from the Navac Invitational Sale was 4,700gns for an
in calf cow from the Widewath herd of Mark Bousfield.
19/03/05
Leading
the White Rose Limousin Group Sale at Carlisle was one of their
stock bulls Pennys Nimrod at 3,100gns.
18/03/05
The
UK’s leading two day show and sale of continental cross
suckled heifer and bullock calves started with the sale of
over 1,000 heifers on Friday at Borderway Mart, Carlisle.
18/03/05
A
new major exhibition covering all aspects of farm diversification
will be one of the major features at this year’s Dairy
Event
18/03/05
Defra updated on recent
developments in Government policy to tackle fly-tipping, including
the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill.
18/03/05
Lamb will be given a major boost at the National Sheep Association
northern region’s biennial one day event, North Sheep
2005 to be staged on Wednesday 1 June at Whinfell Park, near
Penrith, Cumbria.
18/03/05
Maintaining the sheep enterprise
within the top third of costed flocks and achieving even greater
economies of scale are the ways forward at Whinfell Park.
17/03/05
Steve
Powdrill, who has spent his working life in the meat industry,
is to become Regional Manager for the English Beef and Lamb
Executive (EBLEX) and the British Pig Executive (BPEX) in
the North East of England.
17/03/05
NFU Scotland
has expressed its concern at the developments on fuel duties
in yesterday's Budget.
17/03/05
The National Fallen Stock Scheme has signed-up its
25,000th member.
16/03/05
Farmers and growers have a new state-of-the-art website
to simplify their access to information about off label approvals
for pesticide products.
16/03/05
Richard Hirst has been elected chairman of the NFU's board
for horticulture and potatoes. Mr Hirst will replace Graham
Ward who has stepped down after two years in the post.
16/03/05
Charolais bulls were in demand in Carlisle on Friday 11
March 2005 selling to a top of 4,000gns twice at the breed
society’s official early spring show and sale.
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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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