Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Cyber security experts at Lancaster University have produced a dynamic and informative cybersecurity animation specifically designed to provide farmers with free essential knowledge about keeping their farms secure in a digital world.

With 2024 well underway, it’s the time of year to reflect on lessons learnt from the last 12 months. Stuart Wilkieson, Sam Coulson, and John Lack from Elta Group’s agricultural brands answer some key questions on the trends seen.

Kioti UK is set to launch two new and exciting products at LAMMA 24, keeping up the company’s philosophy of continual product development.

Speakers at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference emphasised the importance of small local abattoirs and concerns over ongoing closures – whilst Defra outlined new funding and progress.

Potato cyst nematodes and wireworm are amongst the greatest challenges facing growers. Without better control of both, the economic viability of potato production is under threat, but with fewer crop protection solutions to this dilemma finding a way to protect yields and quality is proving difficult. Agrii explains more.

The newly appointed chair of trustees at the Farm Safety Foundation set his goal to “push even harder for zero avoidable deaths” on farms.

Iceland customers can now buy products from the award-winning Ayrshire butcher, We hae meat. The national grocery retailer is to stock the firm’s skinny steak slice and ‘chippy-style’ ranges in 42 of its Scottish stores. 

Emily Hall, livestock farmer and product manager for Nettex discusses key colostrum targets and what to look for in a colostrum powder when supplementation is needed.

Griffith Elder manufactures weigh beams and full-size weighbridges for agricultural applications which, when connected to the demand for traceability within the food chain and more accurate cropping records, are becoming a must-have tool on many farms.

Toy tractors which belonged to a late Shropshire farmer sold for up to £200 at an auction held at Shrewsbury Auction Centre.

Two dairy farmers from Somerset and Coleraine in Northern Ireland have made it onto the 2024 New Year Honours list, recognising their selfless service to others.

Autumn storms disrupted wheat drilling so there may be some very late drilled wheat crops in the ground this January. Bayer has issued guidance on the rules for using herbicides in these crops.