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Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A food processing company has been fined £20,000 after a worker’s arm was drawn into machinery and seriously injured. 58-year-old Piotr Zielinski from Nottinghamshire was working for the company, Belwood Foods Limited, when his right arm was...

Considering how Israel reacts after a few rockets landing in waste ground somewhere, they're not going to hold back when they've been hit by what Hamas claim to be thousands. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67037895

Where did the bug eyed, big horned, little things come from?

Looking through the awful farm fatalities last year, (27 of them) they actually include the following : • A 3-year-old child was killed when he was struck by a moving vehicle. • A 74-year-old member of the public was found dead in a field with cows, calves and a bull. She had been trampled...

After this springs exercise with spring barley that was spun on (undressed hss seed ) . We were getting late last week of March so spun on the seed and a very light cultivate in with a wilrich cultivator and rolled in and it had a pre em . If we had waited any longer it would of been mid April...

Well people ,society seem to think it is? is this just another sign of the declining "standards", morals etc? Not many years ago, times were alot harder/tougher, but people lived"within their means", an old saying, but true? So why bother, trying to do the "right" thing in both life and in...

I've been curious about the oats in my breakfast bowl over a number of years and so have decided to ask some questions of people who know oats. As a youngster, I sampled most of the various grains that Dad grew on our farm. I tasted some kernels of field corn that we had shelled for the cattle...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has announced a programme of workplace transport inspections focused on the food industry. The HSENI’s agriculture and food team (AFT) will carry out inspections as part of the workplace...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine A Group 2 winter wheat has bucked recent trends of low specific weights for milling quality to perform beyond expected for one Northamptonshire grower. Emma Bletsoe says she’s ‘delighted’ with her first crop of Mayflower and as a result, plans to...

Just had the grandchildren staying for a few days from Hampshire . I have found it very frustrating.. no please or thank-you 's uttered ,table manners non existent! As grandparents should we be trying to correct this or is it non of our business ? We don't often get to see them and they...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland An number of lambs were “mauled” in a recent dog attack in Armagh, Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said. The incident happened in the Creeveroe Road area of the county. Police received a report of the incident on August 19, and the Dog Warden...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland The sight of someone snuggled up to a cow is probably not something that the majority of farmers are used to seeing in their fields. But that’s not the case for Fiona Wilson, who together with her husband Will, and brother James McCune, regularly...

Who do people use? NFU have come in at £750 pa, petplan appear to match their cover £414. They seem to have good feedback online, anybody use them?

Was a bad thing. But £18tn reparations? UK only has net assets of £10tn. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790 How many generations to get over it / not feel guilty.

Found five dead hare iver the past two days. No sign of injury or obvious illness. We are in mid Suffolk, anyone else noticed an increase in dead hares lying about?

Greetings hivemind - why can't farmers wait until January to cut their hedgerows? cutting in august / september removes a lot of fruit 'n' nuts which would be good for wildlife, no? But I think a big reason is in January the ground can be too wet, and big machines will damage the grass / soil...

Got a cow gone down, last saturday after calving, was able to stand when being lifted on hip hoist. Not able to do this now, ankles just go over and legs become more spayed. Had painkillers and metacam. Not keen on lfting any more, but when triyng to getting up legs just go back in frog splash...

Hello farm guys and gals! Has any of you had 'key hole' knee repair surgery? How soon did you get back to work? I'm working as a farmhand on a mixed farm - beef cattle, sheep, arable, veggies, birds, chopping wood, milling... I have broken my anterior cruciate ligament and both menisci in...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A new video aimed at raising awareness of sepsis and its symptoms in farming and rural communities has been launched by rural insurer NFU Mutual in collaboration with the UK Sepsis Trust (UKST). The six-minute long video features NFU Mutual’s...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has urged farmers in Northern Ireland to prepare for vehicle inspections that will be taking place from this month. These inspections are part of the farming transport inspection scheme, which was announced on July...