Author Posts: Farmers Guide

The Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme has today (20 June) reopened for applications from groups wishing to carry out badger vaccination in the Edge Area of England, with £300,000 of funding set aside for the scheme this year.

Farmers are facing challenging conditions in which to control late blight after Hutton Criteria disease warnings were declared in key potato-growing areas.

Openfield Group Limited, the British farmer-owned co-operative, has announced an increase to its presence in Yorkshire.

The AF Group – the largest agricultural buying group in the UK and independent provider of advice, insight, and services to the farming community – has announced a strong set of results for the financial year ended January 31, 2019.

Chiltern Farm Chemicals, one of the largest suppliers of molluscicides in the UK, has been granted permission to bring a judicial review of the decision before the High Court, with the view to declare the metaldehyde ban as unlawful.

The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB), the AgriFood Charities Partnership (AFCP) and Certis Europe BV are to fund a three-year PhD at Harper Adams University in the United Kingdom.

CLAAS introduced the world’s first four-rotor swather, the LINER 3000, twenty years ago. The design concept was to eliminate the swathing bottleneck, and allow the capacity of the forage harvesting convoy to be fully utilised. Today’s four-rotor LINER 4000 and 3600 models remain a byword for productivity, forage quality, user convenience and reliability.

After a tough 2018 season, Scottish potatoes have become increasingly important to maintain supply this year, according to statistics from AHDB.

New Holland Agriculture will be showcasing the diverse range of products it now offers at Cereals on 12th – 13th June 2019 as well as at the Royal Highland show on 20th – 23th June 2019.

Massey Ferguson, a global brand of AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) is proud to announce that the latest, award winning new products will showcase at the Royal Highland Show in Ingliston.

Fifteen Scottish Enterprise Rural Leaders and five Rural Youth Project delegates were the first to experience Rotterdam’s floating dairy in action on a recent urban/rural learning journey to the Netherlands.

The UK’s leading online rural business resource has stepped up a gear in a bid to further help inspire and inform rural business owners and diversifying farmers.