Written by Rachel Martin
More than 11,000 people have signed up to a new ‘Land Army’ style scheme to help farms across the UK weather coronavirus-driven labour shortages.
The ‘Feed the Nation’ campaign, was started by Brighton-based charity Concordia, which facilitates volunteering and international work placements to promote intercultural understanding and peace.
Concordia was founded in 1943 to recruit volunteer labour to help with the war effort and to encourage peace and...
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Written by Jamie Day
Suffolk-based agricultural supplies and crop marketing co-operative Fram Famers has appointed Andrew Knowles as its chief executive from the beginning of July. He replaces Richard Anscombe who left the business after nine years last September to start his own business consultancy. Mr Knowles started his career with the Laurence Gould agricultural consultancy, advising arable businesses […]
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Written by Jamie Day
Australian multinational grain trading and processing group GrainCorp has now completed the long running demerger of its malting interests. The demerger is expected to be effective from April 1st 2020. The new business, which will trade as the United Malt Group, includes the Baird’s Malt business with five maltings in the UK comprising 250,000 tonnes […]
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Written by Jamie Day
Independent feed manufacturer Massey Feeds says it is the first compounder in the UK to remove inorganic sulphates from its dairy mineral premixes. The Cheshire-based company claims this will improve both rumen performance and the efficiency of trace element nutrition. “Dairy cows require trace elements in the most bioavailable form and in a way that […]
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Written by Agriland Team
The agricultural machinery producer AGCO – maker of Fendt – is suspending the production at its Marktoberdorf and Asbach-Bäumenheim sites in Germany due to Covid-19.
The “complete closure of important production sides in Europe” has meant that components are not currently available from suppliers, with shortages bringing production to a halt in the two plants, the machinery giant revealed.
Despite good numbers of orders coming in, tractor production was forced to...
Written by Rachel Martin
As many as 60 workers are understood to have refused to start their shifts at the Linden Foods site in Dungannon this morning (March 27).
The workers demanded “immediate talks” with management said there was a “total absence” of social distancing measures on the boning line, in the canteen and at entry and exit points.
It follows similar staff action at Moy Park and ABP Lurgan over the last few days.
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Brian Hewitt, Unite regional officer for workers at...
Written by Charlotte Cunningham
JCB is suspending UK production until at least the end of April as a result of the coronavirus crisis, but says it will continue to pay employees unable to work. Charlotte Cunningham reports. The firm’s nine manufacturing plants in Staffs, Derbys and Wrexham closed on 18 Mar as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic caused an unprecedented reduction in global demand. At that stage, only shop floor employees were affected by the move and...
Written by Agriland Team
Spring sowing is underway in many parts of the country. Seed rate should take in a number of factors including the thousand grain weight (TGW) of the seed and the time of sowing.
Seed rate will change from year-to-year depending on the TGW of the variety and the batch of seed. TGW will vary across seed batches.
Before deciding on a seed rate you must know the expected establishment rate; the target plant count/m² and the TGW of the seed.
Once all of those three...
Written by Agriland Team
By Aileen Barron, Green Acre Marketing
With many open days, farm demos, discussion group events and other such gatherings unlikely to take place in the immediate future, there are other options from which farmers can gain and share knowledge.
Agri-businesses and industry bodies could very effectively reach out to their customers via webinars. A webinar is essentially an online seminar, that generally takes the form of a real-time presentation from which turns into...
Written by Rachel Martin
The National Sheep Association (NSA) has warned it is growing “more concerned by the day” about market prices and the knock-on effect Covid-19 will have on UK farming communities.
NSA chief executive Phil Stocker warned prices were down around £40-£50/head.
He said: “We can only start from a position of absolute respect and commitment to the measures put in place to reduce the spread of the Covid -19 virus.
“The shutdown is having a really damaging impact on the...
Written by Rachel Martin
The UK’s largest milk and grocery doorstep delivery service, Milk & More, has launched a new recruitment drive as new customers rush to sign up to the service during the Covid-19 lockdown.
This follows an unprecedented number of new customers signing up to the service in the last few days, as more and more people want to have fresh milk and local and fresh groceries delivered to their doorstep.
green”]Milk & More has signed up a record 25,000 new customers in the...
Written by Agriland Team
Spanish farmers have joined in the fight alongside the country’s authorities to tackle the spread of Covid-19 in the southern EU nation in recent days.
Spanish farmer representative organisation Asociatcion Agraria Jovenes Agricultores (ASAJA) has revealed that members of its branch in Salamanca have offered both their tractors and services to local authorities to help disinfect local streets and towns to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Similar moves are...
Written by Rachel Martin
The UK’s Pirbright Institute is to begin testing new coronavirus vaccines on animals to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford and Public Health England, the team of scientists at Pirbright will begin testing new vaccines for their ability to induce protective antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19.
Pirbright has a long history of research on livestock coronaviruses...
Response to calls for food rationing
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The Daily Telegraph has published a comment piece from Professor Dr John Ashton claiming food rationing in the UK is ‘inevitable’ because of a need for further government intervention in the food supply chain. Additionally there is coverage in the Daily Express and MailOnline of comments from Professor Bryce Evans of Liverpool Hope University who also claims food rationing is likely.
As the...
Written by Rachel Martin
Growers in Northern Ireland have been granted a derogation to the crop diversification requirement of the Basic Payment Scheme for 2020.
DAERA Minister, Edwin Poots MLA announced his intention to bring forward a derogation for the requirement, which is commonly known as the three-crop rule today (March 26).
Figures released earlier this month by the Met Office showed February 2020 was the wettest on record for Northern Ireland.
The provisional figures showed...
Written by Rachel Martin
Arla Foods has announced it will hold on-account prices for conventional and organic milk for April 2020.
However, a slight quarterly currency adjustment which will knock 0.15p/L off the UK price.
When applied to the UK manufacturing price, Arla’s will pay 30.79p/L for conventional milk and 39.83p/L for organic from April 1.
Arla Foods amba board director and farmer-owner Arthur Fearnall said: “The entire global economy is overshadowed by the effects of the...
Written by Rachel Martin
Farmers have been asked to do what they can to protect agricultural contractors as UK Government implements stricter ‘stay at home’ measures to slow the spread of Covid-19.
Agricultural contractors are listed as ‘key workers’ that are exempt from being at home due to their line of work.
However, the nature of their job – visiting multiple farmers at several locations on a weekly basis – puts them in a vulnerable position.
Issuing the advice, Ulster Farmers’ Union...
Written by Agriland Team
Tillage farmers are out in force across the country. The past few days have provided great opportunities for all jobs to be carried out in many regions, while some ground will take longer to dry out.
One job that is essential at this time of the year is calibrating the seed drill. The seed drill should be calibrated between different crops, varieties, seed batches and seed dressings.
In this short video, AgriLand talks through the process step-by-step with Derek...
Written by Rachel Martin
A farmer in Peak District has appealed for the UK to enter a total lockdown after he was reportedly punched and kicked on Sunday (March 22) by a walker he told to “go home”.
A post circulating widely on Facebook claimed the Derbyshire farmer was spraying gate handles on his farm with disinfectant when the incident happened.
The post, which was shared more than 1,600 times at the time of publication, read: “Shared from a local farmer two villages away: “I am a...
Written by John Swire
Team members at Moy Park’s plant in Seagoe in Portadown have walked out in protest over concerns about health and safety measures during the coronavirus outbreak, including complaints that social distancing of two metres between staff was not being rigorously enforced.
Sean McKeever, Unite the Union’s regional officer said: “Unite attempted to secure commitments to ensure a minimum two metre social distancing between workers and other measures to enable infection...
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Tractor Chat #01 - with Direct Driller Magazine Farmer Focus writer Phil Rowbottom
Discussing direct drilling wheat, Oil seed rape growing in the UK, Fendt 724 tractor and his Sky Easy Drill.
Discussing direct drilling wheat, Oil seed rape growing in the UK, Fendt 724 tractor and his Sky Easy Drill.