Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a £4 million Smaller Abattoir Fund to boost the sustainability of small red meat and poultry abattoirs in England.
The fund will award capital grants from £2,000 up to a...
Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland
The results from the June 2023 Agricultural Census in Northern Ireland, which have just been released indicate that cattle numbers only increased by less than 1% over the past year.
The statistics compiled by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and...
Introducing the Smaller Abattoir Fund
Written by The Team
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For the first time, smaller abattoirs in England will be able to apply for capital grants through a new £4 million fund designed to boost the sector.
Smaller abattoirs are really important. They’re vital to...
Heather Mills has blamed the “gaslighting” meat industry for the collapse of her vegan food empire.
Ms Mills, who previously stated ambitions to turn the North East of England into the “Silicon Valley of plant-based foods”, said in a statement on her website that she was “devastated” as VBites...
As above. A question,If you’re a farmer with children, a youngster interested in farming,a farmer’s son/ daughter just started farming at home on parents farm/ estate, and anyone in their 30s’ to 55’s actually running a farm for themselves or someone else( by running a farm/ estate I mean you...
Written by Stella Meehan from Agriland
The benchmark for world food commodity prices was broadly stable in November, with lower international cereal quotations offset by higher prices of vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reported today (Friday...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The British Poultry Council (BPC) has called for every single load of poultry products and feed coming into the UK from Poland to be checked amid a rise in cases of food poisoning by salmonella.
The council welcomed the Food Standards Agency’s...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The latest figures from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) have revealed total Great British animal feed produce to be at its lowest level since 2016/17.
The figures, which included integrated poultry units (IPUs), were...
Livestock and grassland webinar follow up
Written by Becky Briggs
Credit: Judy Dean
On Monday 20 November, we held a webinar for livestock and grassland farmers. Our aim was to go through the 2023 offer for those farm types and answer your questions.
You can watch a recording of the...
What's the rules on broiler chicken dispatch,butchering, and then sale to general public? Doesn't seem to be an abbotior around that will process chickens for me. So makes me think you don't need them to process small amounts of chicken for private sale. Wanted to do 10-20 grass fed broilers for...
Good evening all,
Next year I'm looking at buying a rotor spreader. 8-10 cube sort of size.
It will be spreading our own FYM which is a mix of yard scrapings and strawy muck from a covered yard.
Also I am hopefully getting some work in from livery yards, (run by ex farmers who don't...
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Having addressed substantial energy costs across its poultry and arable enterprises, Woodend Farm in Berwickshire is looking to home-grown pulses to reduce reliance on imported soya. CPM visits to get an insight.
By Rob Jones
There are...
the first casualty of war, (Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC).
Like many, I don't watch much TV anymore, and when I am unfortunate enough too, it is aways some uncontested nonsense being broadcast by the usual idiots about the damage cows, poultry or whatever are doing to the planet.
We truly are in...
Given the fact that subsidy goes straight to the bottom line(net profit) how does everyone plan to replace this? im not asking can you "survive" without it, simply how will you replace it? or will you just accept that you will make less money? given the fact the general populations minimum wage...
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Written by Administrator from Farming Monthly National
The grant is available to help replace, build additional, expand or cover existing slurry stores to reach the grant storage requirements. This will help you improve the use of organic nutrients on your farm and reduce pollution. Your...
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