Written by Agriland Team
A number of countries and cities around the world have taken steps to ensure people stay away from public areas amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
However, one city in Sweden as come up with an unusual – or maybe brilliant – idea to keep locals away from the city park.
Officials in Lund, in the south of the country, have decided to dump a tonne of chicken manure in a local park to prevent people gathering there.
Today, May 1, is a feast day for St. Walpurga, which is...
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What are your thoughts on the Agri-Tech Industry? Is the farming future really robotic? What farming problems do you think could be solved with technology? How could you become more innovative? What solutions are around the corner?
These are the kinds of questions you could get answered during our Tech Talk Week from the 11 May - 17 May.
Our tech talk week is an open phone line to the Hartpury Agri-Tech Centre from 7am - 6pm, Monday - Sunday. This will allow you to receive a free...
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By Aileen Barron, Green Acre Marketing
Agri-events serve as a great tool for bringing the agri sector together, connecting: farmers; suppliers; associations; sponsors; and many agri-businesses in a more direct and relatable way, which can generate tangible benefits, strengthen relationships and build loyalty.
Since the onset of Covid-19, hundreds of events in our sector have been cancelled and, unfortunately, I cannot see this changing before the end of the...
Written by Rachel Martin
New measures have been unveiled to enable more TB herd tests to be completed safely on farms in Northern Ireland.
Minister of Agriculture Edwin Poots announced that from May 4, calves under 180 days old may be exempt from all bovine TB herd test types if they cannot be tested in accordance with the latest Public Health Agency guidance on social distancing.
The Minister also announced a number of additional temporary measures to ease movement and testing controls...
Why is Trump insisting that meat-packing plants stay open despite risks? | Art Cullen
Written by Art Cullen
The president said he is protecting companies from liability – but employees are afraid of sick leave and filing for workers’ comp or unemployment
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Thousands of workers stream in single file, at dawn and mid-afternoon, to suit up in masks and chain gloves and put their lives on the line so you can...
Written by Jamie Day
The Cawood Scientific Group has acquired the privately-owned independent laboratory business Marchwood Scientific Services. The move adds further capability to Cawood’s operations – it is already the UK’s largest provider of land-based analytical testing services. Cawood’s seven divisions include the NRM, Sciantec and Sci-tech analysis brands and the group has laboratories at ten sites across […]
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Written by Jamie Day
A round-up of news, cancellations and initiatives affecting the agribusiness sector in the wake of Covid-19 and its control measures. • Interim results from the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF)’S survey of milk losses through the closure of food service and catering market outlets as a covid-19 precaution, indicate that than more than […]
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Written by Jamie Day
With food markets distorted by the covid-19 closure of the hotel, restaurant and catering sector, and the biofuel market hit a sharp fall in crude oil prices, the oilseeds market is highly illiquid, as buyers and sellers hold back. There are signs that mineral oil markets are recovering from the lows, while the first rain […]
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Written by Jamie Day
Oxbury, the specialist agricultural bank established earlier this year, has appointed two experienced farming financiers to its board. They are Simon Featherstone, the former chairman and chief executive of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC), a Lloyds Bank subsidiary; and Richard Percy a former chairman of the NFU Mutual. Mr Percy worked for Strutt & Parker’s […]
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Written by John Swire
Paul Hemingway, who held various management roles at JCB retiring in 2018, has become the new President of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE).
A native of west Wales Paul studied Agricultural Engineering at Newcastle University and having graduated spent two years in Cornwall working for Fulford Trumps, a Ford tractor and New Holland machinery dealer as a branch Service Manager.
In 1978 he joined the Engineering Department at Harper Adams Agricultural...
Written by Jamie Day
Agrimprove, the functional feed ingredients brand of Royal Agrifirm Group, has developed FeedLock, a new feed mitigator to protect feeds from viral contamination. It says FeedLock has been proven to mitigate viral contamination of feed and is a biosecurity measure to prevent feed-related entry routes for contamination by enveloped viruses such as African swine fever […]
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Written by Jamie Day
Ministers from Defra and the devolved governments launched a review of the AHDB in 2018, ten years after the organisation was established by Act of Parliament as a single levy-board umbrella over six formerly separate agricultural enterprise bodies. The change aimed to streamline central services in order to raise overall efficiency and increase the share […]
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Written by Rachel Martin
It’s full steam ahead for what looks set to be the UK’s only summer agricultural show to take place this year.
Taking place – albeit virtually – this Saturday (May 2), The Greatest Online Agricultural Show includes many traditional show highlights.
The schedule includes livestock competitions, food and craft tents, and displays by the RAF Red Arrows, JCB Dancing Diggers and a now-retired Vulcan Bomber.
David Hill founded the show after dozens of agricultural...
Written by Rachel Martin
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is one of 15 Scottish universities and research institutions contributing to global efforts to combat coronavirus and its wider effects.
SRUC has been awarded more than £36,000 to study the quantitative epidemiology of Covid-19 in rural areas.
It follows the Scottish Government announcement that it would release £5 million for research projects to increase the understanding of Covid-19, screen potential treatments and support...
Written by Charlotte Cunningham
Oxford Farming Conference Emerging Leader, David Hill, has launched the “The Greatest Agricultural Show” to honour all of the shows forced to cancel in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. Charlotte Cunningham reports. Hundreds of agricultural shows up and down the country forced to cancel due to the coronavirus pandemic and to honour them, The Greatest Agricultural show was born and will go online on the 2 May. The show is the brainchild of Berks-farm David Hill...
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The global pandemic may have made self-distancing the new normal, but it’s also prompted closer links between communities across the world. CPM gets an insight into the problems spring barley growers face from the UK to New Zealand in a recent Zoom briefing hosted by BASF. The answer to ramularia control doesn’t lie in direct control of the disease. By Lucy de la Pasture Large parts of the English countryside will be graced with a shimmering vibrant green this spring as...
Written by John Swire
Two new high performance varieties that are commercially available for the first time in 2020 significantly enhance the top selling grass and clover mixtures supplied by forage seed specialist Germinal GB.
The latest Aber High Sugar Grass AberBann and the new medium leaf white clover AberSwan, both bred at the Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) Aberystwyth University, are the new stand-out inclusions that will give livestock farmers...
Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease
Written by Patrick Barkham
Researchers study whether new strain of chronic bee paralysis virus is responsible
A viral disease that causes honey bees to suffer severe trembling, flightlessness and death within a week is spreading exponentially in Britain.
Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) was only recorded in Lincolnshire in 2007. A decade later, it was found in 39 of 47 English counties and six of eight Welsh counties...
Written by Rachel Martin
A major £1.2 million national consumer campaign encouraging consumers to “Make It” with beef is being launched by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), AHDB and Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC).
Running for 12 weeks with TV, video on demand, radio and social media, it aims to inspire consumers to create restaurant-style meals in the comfort of their own home, using a variety of hindquarter cuts.
The campaign will be supported with ‘how to’ videos and cooking tips, and...
Defra’s response to coverage of EAC letter on water demand
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On Wednesday 29 April the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) wrote to the government to highlight concerns recently raised in a National Audit Office (NAO) report looking at the additional pressures that climate change and population growth are likely to place on our public water supply. The letter goes on to urge Defra to act on the findings of the report.
The NAO report (published last month)...
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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.