Author Posts: Farmers Guide

A-Plan Rural have launched a Rural Community blog, allowing farmers across the UK to share their experiences of working in the industry.

The Agricultural Engineers Association has reported that for the second month in a row, the number of tractors registered in the UK was significantly higher than in the same month last year.

Two leading livestock vets are urging farmers to vaccinate their livestock this winter for clostridial diseases as more animals are outwintered and vaccine boosters missed.

Agri Industry Solutions (known as AIS – part of the long established TWS Group) are based in Suffolk and are the UK importers for the SV Group (Schuitemaker & Veenhuis brands) together with Perard agricultural equipment.

A total budget of £238m will be available for direct payments to farmers in Wales in 2023, the same level provided over the past three years, the minister for rural affairs Lesley Griffiths confirmed today.

Five finalists have been announced for the 2022 NMR RABDF Gold Cup award, including two dairy businesses in Scotland and three from the south and southwest of England.

The Disease? Not On My Farm! initiative encourages farmers to take a preventative rather than reactive approach to animal health. During a recent roundtable, the campaign’s farm ambassadors considered the latest developments in the livestock sector and how industry recommendations are being implemented within their herds and flocks.

Farmers should take extra care when transitioning between different silage cuts this winter to ensure milk yield and fertility aren’t compromised.  

With British farms continually squeezed by high input costs and low prices, selling ready-pasteurised milk straight to the consumer can substantially increase farm profits, according to Batchpasteuriser.com.

Natural capital is essential for farmers being able to adopt sustainable practices and do good for the environment, delegates were told at the Oxford Farming Conference Fringe event hosted by Trinity AgTech.

The National Sheep Association (NSA) continues to be frustrated in the lack of government commitment to UK agriculture and food security, along with the poor recognition that agriculture is the key to tackling climate change, and could, with the right incentives do far more.

A new Land Laboratory Teaching Centre, which will provide an integrated, state-of-art facility to train students in climate-smart, resilient agriculture and land management, is to be built at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) after the university won £5.8m of funding from The Office for Students (OfS).