Author Posts: Sarah Kidby

Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Innovation Centre is welcoming growers, agronomists and vegetable industry specialists to attend a showcase of the company’s new varieties and technologies.

A recent poll has shown that 78.7% of UK dairy farmers found the majority of disease and poor health in their herd occurs in the first 60 days post-calving.

Farming groups welcomed the government’s new scheme that will cut energy bills nearly in half this winter for businesses, charities, and public sector organisations.

Company announces the move to the Oxbo brand plus a new global website.

More than 130,000 students will experience harvest time first-hand as the NFU education team takes them behind the scenes of the UK’s biggest harvest festival.

MSD Animal Health has announced that its Bovilis Intranasal RSP Live vaccine is now licensed for use in calves from the day of birth onwards.

The Rural Payments Agency has published the Basic Payment Scheme entitlement rates.

Current government regulations state that the upper weight limit for agricultural trailed items including slurry tankers is 18.29 tonnes – regardless of whether they have an implement on the back.

A recent study led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has revealed that low-cost thermal imaging devices could be as effective in detecting lameness in dairy cattle as diagnostics up to 50 times more expensive.

Ruminant Health and Welfare has issued a botulism alert to farmers after rocketing fertiliser prices resulted in more poultry litter being used on grass crops.

‘Diddly Squat: ‘Til the Cows Come Home’ is a collection of Clarkson’s latest Sunday Times columns, detailing the next instalment of his farming adventure.

As farmers face severe cost pressures, the Ruminant Health & Welfare group has issued a reminder of the legal requirement to provide calves with at least two milk feeds a day until 28 days of age.