Farmers Guardian
Alison Lea Freelance

  • whc spring show

    26 March 2009

    western holsteins annual spring show

  • Farming on massive scale

    February 16th 2007

    ENGLISH ex-pat Robert Covell gave a fascinating insight into the Russian farming company for which he is operations manager.

  • Focus should be on the outcome

    February 16th 2007

    SHADOW Agriculture Minister Jim Paice focused on over-regulation of farming as the number one issue that needed to be addressed.

  • Tesco data can be of assistance

    February 16th 2007

    TESCO used it, so it must be the best. There was a huge, up-to-the minute database of consumer information that could be accessed, free, by all levy-paying farmers, said Dr Andrew Fearne, of the Centre for Supply Chain Research.

  • NFU EASTERN REGION CONFERENCE

    November 10th 2006

    New chief at the RPA should make for ‘more stable 2007’

  • Nuffield Conference

    November 10th 2006

    Throwing down the gauntlet to meet demands of the consumer

  • Home-grown rape seed bound for UK biodiesel plants?

    June 16th 2006

    THE use of home-grown rape seed over alternative feedstock in bio-diesel plants – currently under construction in the UK – will depend on several factors for and against their use, according to HGCA economist Michael Archer.

  • Regulation roll out: Quarterly update

    May 5th 2006

    In January we gave you a summary of new regulations and legislation expected to affect arable farms over the next year. Alison Lea updates the calendar.

  • Plus points from ELS management plans

    April 21st 2006

    Score points for your own benefit by opting for management plans in Entry Level Stewardship. Alison Lea reports.

  • Check for leaf spot now in year of high infection

    April 7th 2006

    Now is the time to check for light leaf spot infection in winter oilseed rape crops and, according to Dr Neal Evans of Rothamsted Research, the risk of infection this year is much higher than the last two years.

  • Agency demands more efficiency from irrigators

    March 10th 2006

    The Environment Agency may not be able to legally enforce efficient irrigation, but it will look for evidence of conscious effort to use water efficiently when abstraction licence renewal comes around.

  • Regulation Rollout

    February 24th 2006

    New regulations in farming are, regrettably, inevitable and with so many other pressures on your time it is all too easy to overlook something and end up on the back foot. That is why Farmers Guardian is running a six-week special to inform you about new regulation coming into force in 2006. We start this week with a summary, reviewing regulations that have recently been introduced, and looking at the year ahead.

  • Regulation roll out

    January 20th 2006

    Arable Farming's snapshot of important deadlines and dates for the introduction of new regulations in 2006. Pin it on the office noticeboard! And look out for our quarterly updates throughout this year.

  • New spring bean varieties absent from Recommended List five new pea varieties

    December 2nd 2005

    Five new pea varieties, no new spring bean varieties, and one new winter bean have been selected to join the PGRO/NIAB 2005/06 Recommended List, announced last week.

  • New spring barley variety is just the tipple for maltsters

    November 25th 2005

    Spring malting barley variety NFC Tipple, which joined the Recommended List this year, will be a bigger seller than Optic – which currently accounts for nearly 80 per cent of spring malting barley puchases by variety, at 400,000 tonnes.

  • Three Group 1 choices this autumn

    July 8th 2005

    Plot tours at ProCam’s recent field day at NIAB Cambridge gave growers an opportunity to review varieties for this autumn’s drilling.

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