animal feed

Despite UK feed wheat futures closing down yesterday, prices remain at very high levels. February marked the 22nd consecutive month that UK nearby feed wheat futures gained on the year. The monthly average nearby UK feed wheat price for February was £222.12/t, 9% up on year earlier levels. While...

Presumably I'm not alone in struggling to secure an affordable delivery? I'm ready to turn the thing off and hope the world's a more normal place come next winter. EN+A1, bulk loads - is anyone taking deliveries able to disclose what you're paying /tonne?

Just pondering upon what foods we are self sufficient in. I know the figure on the whole is about 60%. But surely that includes all the stuff we eat that cannot be grown here ie bananas, etc If we had to become 100% self sufficient in food what would our diet look like ?

Barrel and Jackal: still the two best soft wheats for the north 03.09.19 Scotland’s growers will be familiar with the winter wheat varieties KWS Barrel and KWS Jackal. As the two highest-yielding soft wheats for the north (based on complete data) growers were quick to spot their suitability...

Barrel and Jackal: still the two best soft wheats for the north 03.09.19 Scotland’s growers will be familiar with the winter wheat varieties KWS Barrel and KWS Jackal. As the two highest-yielding soft wheats for the north (based on complete data) growers were quick to spot their suitability...

The 2021/22 oat market looks well supplied following the biggest crop since 1972. But, some industry sources suggest the market feels tighter than the numbers suggest. The export pace is key to minimising carryout stocks to avoid a hangover into 2022/23. Bigger crop, but higher demand? Defra...

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Anyone been watching this? I haven't seen them all. Tonight episode was going so well. Kenyans making seed booms with charcoal and spreading them all over. What a good idea, has anyone done that for spreading cover crops through a fertiliser spreader over here? Then of course the usual dig at...

Written by John Swire from Farm Business UK nutritional supplement manufacturer and supplier to the animal feed industry, UFAC-UK has appointed Richard Lapthorne as Northern business manager, in the latest stage of a client-focused restructuring that is transforming the customer-supplier...

AHDB released its latest 2021/22 UK cereal supply and demand estimates this morning. This includes insights into wheat, barley, oats, and maize. Furthermore, both exports and commercial end-season stocks have been estimated, which isn’t usually done until May. To no surprise, the UK wheat...

With corn prices on the up even more now. After been quoted £290/ton for a General nut I’m thinking of cutting back on corn in my youngstock and replacing it with fodder beet. What are peoples thoughts on that and what are others trying to do?

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland Global science-based company, Royal DSM and CPF (Thailand) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an aim to measure and improve the environmental footprint and sustainability of animal protein production. This will be done through the use of...

Last week saw the release of updated GB animal feed production numbers up until November 2021. Focusing on the four main cereals (wheat, barley, oats, and maize), animal feed usage season to date (Jul-Nov) is up 2% year-on-year at 2.16Mt. This said, maize usage in GB animal feed is down 29%...

As a cereal farmer we all have to produce crops within the rules set out by government such as crop sprayer MOT, NROSO, Safe storage of grain, fuel storage, fertiliser storage etc etc. We’ve had EA, Natural England, Defra and Trading Stadards inspections over the last 5 years. We then have to...

Hi all My name is Katie Meehan and I work as a Product and Service Designer for Severn Trent. As a company which is constantly striving to do the right thing in order to help respond to our ever changing climate, we have identified an opportunity using new technology to develop a new...

Morning all and happy new year. Further to the information we published about the Sustainable Farming Incentive in December (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-how-the-scheme-will-work-in-2022), today we're publishing information about the 2 other new...

Have just received the Public Accounts Committee report on ELMS, and associated press release. I think 'damning' pretty much covers it. It is embargoed until Sunday so will post on here then, just starting a thread now in case anyone else who has had it is less worried about such niceties and...

Just when you thought their hypocrisy has reached a high, you get a statement on National TV that food made from insect protein is vegan. This was for a dog food, which is equally mental thinking of feeding your dogs a vegan diet. Insects obviously aren't fluffy enough to care about.

Can any of you guys enlighten me as to how things work in NI (or the Republic for that matter). Trying to find out what hoops you need to jump through to sell to a maltster, flour miller or oilseed crusher for human consumption markets. In England we need to be Red Tractor assured to sell to...