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Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A tricky start to planting plus the potential of growers managing unfamiliar varieties due to short seed supplies means weed control could require some careful planning. CPM explores herbicide timings and programme choices for the season...

Just read this article in the Washington Post, about how the multinational food companies are encouraging dieticians in the "anti diet movement" to encourage people to stop dieting and just eat whatever they want when they want. I didn't even realise there was an anti diet movement! As...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland The chief executive officer (CEO) of Hilton Food Group, Steve Murrells, will be among the speakers to address the UK & Ireland Meat Business Women conference in May 2024. Corporate services director at Morrisons, Ruth McDonald and food and beverage...

https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/sack-the-board-if-you-sack-me-says-red-tractor-boss Can't say I disagree with him on that, fire the lot of them... Get some people in that care about the farmers they are supposed to be working for, not the supermarkets which they have decided to work for instead.

Email me at [email protected] if YOU are willing to build a tractor protest in your area. Or am I pissing in the wind?

Posted elsewhere but might as well post it here too. FT today. Bit of a read, but just shows how utterly fekked up all of this is. One bit stands out: Smith, the University of Aberdeen professor, says carbon sequestration can buy food suppliers “time to decarbonise the rest of their supply...

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1566/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1566/pub/1566/page/61/article/NaN Hope this link works, at last …. Rewilding is NOT the answe

I'm livid about this, and I hope British Farming Union will hold NFU, RT, AHDB and the other farming unions to account over it. Read on.... According to F Weekly article, Red Tractor planned to introduce the GFC to help several supermarkets meet their “WWF basket” commitments to source 50% of...

On the 9th October Tom Bradshaw tweeted picture 1. On the 11th October the NFU released a statement pictures 2,3 and 4 and quoted Tom Bradshaw directly. It clearly says that the NFU have been involved for 18 months and Tom himself sits on the Red Tractor board. However Tom’s personal post...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland Avara Foods technical field manager Hannah Cargill has won the 2023 Meat Business Women’s ‘One to Watch’ award. The award, in its fifth year, aims to recognise and celebrate young, ambitious women making their mark in the meat industry. Meat Business...

Written by Louise Hickey from Agriland Management from the meat supplier, JBS SA told analysts that the outlook for beef in the US is “not going to improve soon” according to Reuters. Management has stated that this is likely to leave beef processors with unused capacity in the US. Global...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Agricultural products and services provider Cargill UK has appointed three new technical and formulation poultry specialists. The company said the new members will help extend and improve its poultry team. Cargill UK’s commercial manager, David...

Written by Louise Hickey from Agriland The number of beef cows in the US at the start of this year was the lowest since 1962 at 28.918 million, according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The figures reflected the smallest...

Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland A new methane emissions reduction methodology has been developed in the United States which is aimed at beef producers. Global food corporation, Cargill has partnered with TREES Consulting to develop a Gold Standard-approved beef methodology. It...

I know we've been through it a bit before but can someone explain to me how enteric fermentation actually exhales more green house gases than the feedstock that goes in? Wikipedia tells me: As a by-product of consuming cellulose, cattle belch out methane, there-by returning that carbon...

Iv been having a chat with the nfu vice president at the Yorkshire show and got round to asking why the nfu are not pointing out to the public and government when they appear in the media that food prices need to go up to pay for rising production cost. They made aware to me that the NFU are not...

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Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland A dairy farming family in Co. Antrim has been announced as Supreme Champions of the Lakeland Dairies Milk Quality Awards. The winner is Stephen Cargill Templepatrick, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, who claimed the accolade for the exceptionally high quality of...

Obvious title but the more I read and hear, the more I feel the politicians don’t seem to value food security aka home production at all. Many farmers rightly considering taking the environmental package not to grow a break crop (apologies I can’t recall its title) but to grow wilding type...