pesticide

Red tractor posted a infographic attacking New Zealand Lamb onto twitter, which they have punched back with a revised version of their own Turns out red tractor got most of it wrong. Is attacking the competitors the way forward? Personally I’m quite sick of hearing about how awful these foreign...

Please see the Arable Commentary thread, do the AHDB think we are thick?....some serious digging going on. https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/grain-market-outlook-2021.356126/#post-7797554

Average farm business surely pays them £300-500 a year. Can any of their acolytes tell me what they do for their money? Apart from employee's like Guy Smith wanting a "fresh pair of eyes" on his business (albeit unqualified to advise on health and safety and legal aspects) what does everyone...

Lead Sprayer and Combine Operator – Permanent We are looking for an experienced Sprayer and Combine operator to join a small team in North Hampshire. The farming operation currently covers 2,085 hectares growing combinable and energy crops alongside an Environmental Stewardship Scheme and...

Farmer Focus – Andrew Jackson If you are reading this article, I will assume that you may well be at some point in the journey of Regenerative Agriculture. Although I have always been a passionate farmer, trying to become a regen farmer has enhanced my love of farming at what could be...

Nuffield Catch Up – Mark Dewes Mark is a farmer and agronomist from Withybrook in Warwickshire. After starting with ADAS in 1996 and working with NIABTAG, AICC and Agrii he was awarded a Nuffield Scholarship to evaluate the role agronomists play in stewarding pesticide use. Think of...

I had the survey call this morning (01904732249) Yes AHDB do some very good work . . . But I let them know my views about Red Tractor funding from AHDB etc Reign in Red Tractor or lose the vote. Don't miss the chance to tell them what you think

I went to the AHDB conference yesterday, and as I sat there, I was thinking how much Levy money was spent on Hotels/Meals and the conference itself. As I looked around the room of 80 or so people, you can spot a farmer a mile off, and I would be surprised if there were more than a dozen actual...

Was nice to have the chance to speak to Tim Rycroft this week.

With the recent escalation of Nitrogen prices it has occurred to me that growers are going to consider alternative sources of N. Having been involved with some initial work on N fixing bacteria I thought it might be useful to have a thread on here so that farmers can ask questions about some of...

Back in March, the AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds voted to stop funding Red Tractor and then chose another project to use those funds for. This was around £40k that was stripped from Red Tractor. It was stated by AHDB that this was nothing to do with the imports issue, but the timing suggests it...

Meet the British dairy farmers fighting back against the vegan plant-milk boom The creators of a pioneering, carbon-neutral product hope to reignite the nation's thirst for cow's milk BySue Quinn4 October 2021 • 6:00am Francis Clarke, MD of Trewithen Dairy which is pioneering a carbon-neutral...

I have just seen the attached in this weeks Farmers Weekly.:scratchhead:

I'm not certain of exactly what is being studdied, but I believe AHDB have funded a study, chaired by Tom Bradshaw (NFU Vice President), looking into the tests done on imported grain, cost of doing so etc. I'm just concerned that the NFU partly own RT, and are generally supportive of RT, so how...

This is beyond belief, how can they get away with lying like this ? Can any farmer be in doubt that we need some serious action here where is their London office and who has a muck spreader ? they seem to like bulls**t !

Written by Administrator from Farming Monthly National With growers in the midst of a tumultuous time in British farming, this year’s CropTec Show seminar programme will examine the building blocks for a sustainable arable farming future. CropTec’s acclaimed seminar programme returns for 2021...

for many years consumers have been deluged with advertising backed by scientific fact to change their diet for health reasons. The first big campaign of course was the Margarine v dairy fat, with very convincing adverts that using margarines rather than butter were very much better for your...

Growers Dismayed at the Unlevel Playing Field of Grain By Steve Ridsdale Combinable crop direct drillers have found ways to cut establishment costs, whilst at the same time aiming to increase the resilience and productive capacity of their soils. At the other end of the production cycle, comes...

Written by John Swire from Farm Business With growers in the midst of a tumultuous time in British farming, this year’s CropTec Show seminar programme will examine the building blocks for a sustainable arable farming future. CropTec’s acclaimed seminar programme returns for 2021 with a focus...