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Johnson to become new UK prime minister after party leadership win
Written by Agriland Team
Boris Johnson, the pro-Brexit politician, has officially been announced as the new leader of the UK’s Conservative Party and, therefore, prime minister of the UK.
He was announced today, Tuesday, July 23, as the winner of the vote among Conservative Party members to replace Theresa May as leader of the party and as prime minister.
Johnson won on a ballot of 92,153, against 46,656 for Jeremy Hunt.
He is expected to formally take charge tomorrow when May travels to Buckingham Palace to hand in her resignation to the Queen.
Throughout the leadership campaign, Johnson has made it clear that he would take the UK out of the EU with or without a deal on October 31...
Love Lamb Week gains backing from £1.4 million campaign
Written by Rachel Martin
Love Lamb Week 2019 will kickstart the second phase of AHDB’s £1.4 million lamb marketing campaign, which highlights its delicious flavour.
Using the tag, ‘Lamb hits you in the chops’ the campaign will run from September 1-7, a time when British lamb is coming into peak supply.
The activity aims to stem the decline in lamb sales and boost consumer attitudes towards the meat across target audiences.
Now in its fifth year, Love Lamb Week has grown to become an industry-wide initiative with support from the National Sheep Association (NSA), AHDB, the National Farmers’ Union, Red Tractor, the Ulster Farmers’ Union and meat promotion bodies, HCC in Wales, LMC in...
BYDV tolerance
One of the first crops of the six row BYDV tolerant winter barley, Rafaela, has been harvested in Cornwall with very pleasing results.
The 6 ha field, that followed spring oats, was harvested on the 9th July at 4.50pm at Howton Farm in Saltash, Cornwall yielded 8.15t/ha and a specific weight of 66kg/hl.
Grower, John Moss believes that the BYDV tolerance definitely kicked in and protected yields. “We thought it would be worth trying Rafaela as we are in a BYDV hot spot - and despite the high BYDV pressure it’s proved its worth - so we definitely be putting some more in next year.”
“It’s been a super looking crop all the way through, tall and stood well, although we didn’t get as much straw off it as we would have liked.”
The 6 ha field, that followed spring oats, was harvested on the 9th July at 4.50pm at Howton Farm in Saltash, Cornwall yielded 8.15t/ha and a specific weight of 66kg/hl.
Grower, John Moss believes that the BYDV tolerance definitely kicked in and protected yields. “We thought it would be worth trying Rafaela as we are in a BYDV hot spot - and despite the high BYDV pressure it’s proved its worth - so we definitely be putting some more in next year.”
“It’s been a super looking crop all the way through, tall and stood well, although we didn’t get as much straw off it as we would have liked.”
Bayer JV to develop biopesticides
Written by Jamie Day
The Bayer Group has announced a $110 million collaboration with Arvinas, a US biopharmaceutical company based in New Haven, Connecticut, to develop novel products for the crop protection and human healthcare sectors. The new life science research partnership will leverage the potential of Arvinas’ novel proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology with Bayer’s experience in health and […]
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