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As above what's the best way to break up any lumpy bits? Tine harrow or chain harrow? What would a tedder do....

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...

Matt baker program offering a tenancy on a NT farm northumberland

Hello Everyone, I hope you can help me out, I am currently doing a PhD and need 10 Farmers and 10 farmers close acquaintances (Partners, Parents, Children over 18, friends) who would be interested in doing an interview. Before I discuss the project I thought I would explain why I am interested...

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...

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.

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Latest analysis shows that 7,400ac of farmland has been publicly marketed in the first three months of 2024, which is 6% more than the same period in 2023. This is according to Strutt & Parker’s Farmland Database, which found that the volume of...

I thought I did on the Sainted Isle but that seems to no longer be the case … Recently, we tendered and won a block of 70ac on the outskirts of a village and accessed by a lane with houses off. I said to son after we’d walked the land that if we won, there would be trouble…… and yesterday we...

Written by Rubina Freiberg from Agriland Higher international quotations for vegetable oils, dairy products and meat have more than offset lower quotations for cereals and sugar last month. This is according to the latest Food Price Index by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Scottish government has launched a consultation on proposals to modernise how the country’s cattle are tagged, identified and traced. Cattle farmers and businesses are encouraged to give their views on plans to fit all new-born cattle with...

Delivering for people and planet Written by defrablogs In 2018, the government published its 25 Year Environment Plan which outlined 10 overarching goals for improving the environment within a generation. Our world-leading Environment Act followed in 2021, setting clear statutory targets for...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Hogget pieces for sale in a butcher’s shop at £24/kg is not fantasy. In fact, it’s exactly what shoppers in Bristol are prepared to pay for the product. This week has seen celebrity chef Andi Oliver featuring the culinary delights of Bristol...

Cant get through on the helpline and its upto 30 days for a reply to an email, but has anybody found a way around this ......... Application submitted and offer sent out but this was rejected as I wanted to alter it. I've created a new application and gone through the motions however come up...

Cows have to be out , no plan B. Strip grazed and back fenced daily. Ground sodden so cutting up. What would you do? Will it recover? How best to speed recovery if it ever stops raining?

Possibly looking at tendering for 50ish acres grass keep. Mid April to 31st October. Will cut all once for hay/silage (and can only cut once) for our late lactation and dry cows over winter. After that thinking of running either store lambs or stirks, will probably be sold once agreement expires...

Our bull has stopped eating and is making a low grunting noise with every breath, started 2 days ago but yesterday seemed better but worse now. Will be phoning the vet shortly, just wondering if you have any ideas? My father is thinking a wire. Been no change in his diet so ruling out acidosis...

Written by Francess McDonnell from Agriland The largest producer and distributor of fresh eggs in the United States has been forced to destroy 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets because of an outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu). Cal-Maine Foods also confirmed that it has...

Got a red tractor inspection next week ( on lambing so no spare time ) what are the new hot things to do Help appreciated

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...