Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Building on last year’s success, AHDB and UK exporters travelled to the Philippines to showcase the qualities of British pork and beef at the World Food Expo (WOFEX), meet key stakeholders and cultivate new business opportunities in the Asian market.

The National Sheep Association (NSA) has praised AHDB’s commitment to expanding trade opportunities for UK lamb across the globe and has welcomed plans to launch a trade mission to Kuwait next month with the aim of unlocking further markets for British exporters.

To combat the growing issue of anthelmintic resistance, a recent study investigated measuring worm tolerance in lambs and the effect of genetics on how well untreated animals coped with a higher worm burden.

Emerging OSR varieties with improved genetics that keep plant stems healthy are offering growers increased resistance to yield-robbing diseases such as phoma, light leaf spot and verticillium, according to LSPB managing director Chris Guest.

Laurence J Betts Ltd (LJ Betts), grower of premium salads since 1930, has been acquired by the Regan family who are the owners of Hugh Lowe Farms Ltd, a neighbouring berry growing business in Kent, and of Blaise Plants Ltd, a plant propagator.

The government has been accused of sabotaging UK food producers by imposing further delays to import checks on fresh farm produce arriving from the EU, maintaining an uneven playing field for British farmers.

Read the latest news from Horsch, including a review of its new self propelled sprayer, how a completely revolutionary single disk drill can be used for optimum seed placement and advice for sowing in wheat straw with disc technology.

The industry-renowned dairy course ‘Entrepreneurs in Dairying’, run by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) and sponsored by HSBC UK, is set to return this October and is open to anyone interested in a career in the dairy sector.

A man driving a tractor was airlifted to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge having sustained serious injuries following a collision with a lorry on the A140 near Little Stonham this Wednesday (2nd August).

Over £14 million will be on offer in new competition rounds to develop innovative solutions in the farming sector as part of the government’s Farming Innovation Programme, Defra has announced yesterday (2nd August).

A timely appraisal of forage stocks now could pay dividends this winter, with experts predicting farmers could battle severe shortages in the housing season following a wet spring and mixed summer.

Innovative projects developing solutions to overcome animal health challenges on farm are set to receive a further £9 million funding under the second round of the endemic livestock disease initiative seeking to revolutionise the UK livestock sector.