Author Posts: Aleksandra Cupriak

Graham’s Family Dairy is celebrating after the family business was accredited with Great Taste 2024 Awards for a range of its products. 

A project aimed at improving management of cabbage stem flea beetles (CSFB), which are the primary cause for the dramatic reduction in the area of UK Oilseed Rape (OSR) crops over the last decade, has just been launched. 

Agricultural machinery dealership Ernest Doe & Sons Ltd has just announced the acquisition of The Burdens Group Limited’s southern Lincolnshire branches, located in Sutterton and North Kyme.  

Half of the fertiliser used on UK wheat crops could be removed, without yield or quality penalties if a unique combination of nitrogen-capturing technologies is successful in trials, scientists claim. 

Personal details of staff working at a Norfolk poultry factory have been stolen in a cyber attack. 

Defra has just confirmed that another three cases of bluetongue have been discovered on farms in Norfolk and Suffolk. 

Wheat growers are being urged to manage risk by taking on board the lessons of the challenging 2023/24 season when making this autumn’s drilling and variety decisions. 

A 16-year-old boy will appear in court over claims that he drove a tractor underage and was using his phone while driving. 

Egg producers and packers will no longer need to change how eggs are labelled during an outbreak of avian influenza under new measures announced by the government. 

Agricultural machinery manufacturer Blaney Agri has unveiled its latest pre-season offer on the acclaimed Forager X10 and Bale Feeder X6 bale unrollers.  

A case of bluetongue virus BTV3 in a single sheep has been confirmed on a farm in South Norfolk. 

Harvest 2024 was undeniably an interesting but also challenging time for UK farmers. For some of them, like Cambridgeshire farmer Stephen Briggs, harvest had to be put on hold due to equipment theft, but others call the season very “straightforward”.