I live in what most consider a lovely old farmhouse, from a distance. The reality is that the whole roof, doors, windows, porch need replacing, lean to washhouse needs knocking down and rebuilding as do two big chimneys, plumbing and electrics total replace, damp at back of house as ground level...
An article in Sunday Times about the development of Edinburgh Airport. I was interested to read passenger numbers pre covid had a peak of 14'000'000 and 2023 was the first year to beat that at 14'700'000. The really interesting bit was after developments passenger numbers are going to be...
barley
broccoli
carbon
cattle
cereals
co2
cows
dairy
death
development
diesel
disease
drainage
environmental
family
flooding
fuel
gas
grass
grazing
health
kerosene
landowners
maintenance
malting
market
milk
natural capital
operator
pickup
pig
repair
sfi
solar
trading
transport
woodland
Just goes to show what the war did for our timber as well as food / farm supplies
We can learn and heed so much from (recent) history
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Above is a direct quote of the new mammals tv program on BBC One.
David Attenbourgh.
I know it’s BBC and probably not his thoughts directly….
But not backed up with any statistics or sources.
And don’t people want to eat?
im a mixed farmer and I know where more water is needed, its not my...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Agronomist, Richard Owens, has confirmed that continuing wet conditions are hampering cereal growers form getting on with critically important field work.
“Some areas were hit that little bit harder with the weather than others. As a rule of thumb...
Written by Agriland Team from Agriland
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) are hosting a series of six farm walks to illustrate and define ‘Efficient and Sustainable Milk Production’ for local dairy farmers.
The first two farm walks took place on Wednesday, March 27...
Written by Agriland Team from Agriland
An Australian company has announced the launch of a new product, “Ashgrove Eco-Milk”, which is a climate-friendly milk.
Ashgrove Cheese stated that this new eco-milk retains all the nutritional benefits and taste of Ashgrove full cream milk while...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
The latest UK crop update from the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) paints a very downbeat perspective regarding the harvest prospects for 2024/25.
The information in the crop update was captured up to Tuesday, March 26, 2024...
Having watched this programne and the 70% markup the investors want,how would you pitch for funding for a farm business.I can hear them laughing now.What a sad world when food is such an important commodity.So come on let’s hear your pitch.
I thought that by us leaving the EU we here in the UK, would shape/create a new agriculture/horticulture support package for food production? All i see thats happened is that large blocks of productive land are by new "incentives" leaving abandoning, stopping food production, that and the...
Written by Rubina Freiberg from Agriland
The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) will be hosting one-day dry stone walling courses during the next number of weeks.
The training events at CAFRE’s Glenwherry Hill Farm Centre will be an introduction to single skinned dry...
At a meeting last night discussing rural issues.
Part of the meeting we discussed the farming scene and how tough it is .....
2 of those present suddenly spoke out at what they had seen in various 'farming' type mags and market reports' about livestock making record prices in markets etc etc ...
Just wondering if there's any further information out yet as to what constitutes no till in the eyes of SFI?
Is it a dts/mzuri/claydon direct into stubble?
Or is it going to be lower disturbance tine or disc?
Supposedly a claydon grain and fert meets the grant spec with the leading tine applying...
Just phoning a contractor, he said, got to go, Police have just arrived, will call again when they have gone. He called back, umbilical spreading slurry, someone called the police to say, slurry being pumped into the river. Police had to attend to check. What has happened to this country, when...
Written by Claire Sammon from Agriland
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Minister Andrew Muir has launched the latest phase in his department’s partnership with Digital Catapult to assist companies to achieve their net zero ambitions.
In November 2023, DAERA...
Written by Maeve Hennessy from Agriland
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust announced the completion of the purchase of Common Farm, at Nether Heage near Belper. The site will be rewilded to create a “mosaic” of habitats.
Over 2,000 people donated to the public appeal which was launched last October...
With the way things are and no improvement on the horizon ,how long will it be before a huge dealer shuts up shop.they mostly got very large expensive premises and massive stocks of parts and machines but they will be suffering the same as the smaller dealers.seems to be a weekly occurrence of...
Open reach guy turned up today came 30 plus miles ,he was involved in "plant protection "" or otherwords checking telegraph poles are not rotting, took hour per pole..
Another guy who lives down road is travelling
To Birmingham every day 100miles each way, works for open reach. Inefficient...
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