There is a well known saying, 'no pain, no gain' and that will be ringing true in the minds of Milk Link’s 1,600 producers, who are on the brink of reaping just reward for 12 years of loyalty and investment.Farmers Guardian
January 27th 2006
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Assured Food Standards under fire over British Food Fortnight ‘snub’
January 27th 2006
British Food Fortnight (BFF) is likely to be snubbed for the second year running by farming’s most recognised mark, the Little Red Tractor Logo.
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Beating pooling and lameness problems MDC
January 27th 2006
The design and management of dairy cow housing can go a long way to help reduce slurry ponding and hence lameness issues according to a study published by the Milk Development Council (MDC).
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Dairy farmers possess option to lease or ‘sell’ set-aside for arable
January 27th 2006
Arable farmers wishing to put down more than the required area of set-aside will find English dairy farmers willing to pay them to take their dairy farm set-aside entitlements and responsibilities off them, says a consultancy.
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Defra and scientists at odds over TB cull option
January 27th 2006
No scientific data to back up proposed targetted culling
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EU gives backing to further biomass crop production
January 27th 2006
European Union Farm Ministers have supported calls for a new drive to encourage biomass production – but Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has warned that while this represents a new opportunity it ‘will not be a gold mine’ for farmers.
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Fixed contracts for organic beef stores
January 27th 2006
Fixed price and volume contracts are being offered to organic beef producers by Sainsbury’s via its supplier ABP.
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Frustration at Single Payment delay leads to call for resignations
January 27th 2006
The Single Payments are still expected to begin next month the Rural Payments Agency claimed this week.
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Home-produced nitrogen production through slurry gaining in attraction due to high oil-derivative prices
January 27th 2006
Most dairy farmers have problems with slurry, with lack of adequate storage facilities, but they also fail to make best use of the slurry when applying it to land, Chris Burnham of Devon-based Tanlake Machinery told farmers.
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MPs rap Lord Bach for complacency over payments fiasco in England
January 27th 2006
Farming Minister Lord Bach had been too complacent over late payments to farmers, furious MPs claimed this week.
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New additions to Mule range predicted this year
January 27th 2006
In the Kawasaki camp, the KVF 360 remains the best selling ATV dropping as it does, right into the middle of the most popular hp sector.
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New legal DON limits
January 27th 2006
HGCA’s 2006 cereals workshops are taking the theme ‘Managing cereals in challenging times’. Teresa Rush reports from the Woodbridge, Suffolk event.
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New Outlander proves plain good fun
January 27th 2006
Why might you decide you have to have an ATV delivering 63hp?
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Pedigree breeders with a herd that says look at me!
January 27th 2006
Norfolk-based breeders Anita Padfield and Paul Barwood are familiar faces on the local and national show circuit with their pedigree Belgian Blue and commercial cattle. Clemmie Perowne met them to look back on a successful 2005.
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Penalties for regulation breaches to become more common
January 27th 2006
Farmers failing to meet the various rules and regulations under cross-compliance will find that they are more likely to be penalised for this than has been the case in the past, Momenta’s John Tearle told the Bootle meeting.
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Persistence pays for spraing control
January 27th 2006
Nematicide application and persistence are vital for the best levels of reduction of spraing, according Dr Pat Haydock, leading nematologist at Harper Adams University College.
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Ready to take organophosphate poisoning debate before court of law to highlight findings
January 27th 2006
For 15 years, Brenda Sutcliffe has battled for a fair deal for shepherds and sheep owners who, like her own family, suffered the effects of organophosphate poisoning after dipping sheep under MAFF dipping orders.
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Slurry handling update to form part of dairy expansion programme
January 27th 2006
A new slurry handling and storage system will be part of a dairy expansion programme being undertaken by the Wilson family at Monk Foss Farm, Whitbeck, Bootle, Cumbria – the venue for the Copeland Project farm open day.
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SPINACH AND GINGER CHICKEN OR LAMB
January 27th 2006
This recipe is from Clare Herdman of Whitehaven, Cumbria. She points out that the end result should look charred. “I always make this with chicken but a friend tried it with lamb and liked it,” she says.
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The forgotten community
January 27th 2006
Traditional hill farming in Britain is under threat. We need the activities of hill farming to maintain the upland landscapes but we may now be witnessing its slow death.
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UK Energy Review welcomed as prices continue to soar
January 27th 2006
The NFU has welcomed the Energy Review consultation launched by the Government this week.
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Wheat at peril of yellow rust
January 27th 2006
Disease experts expect yellow rust strains to combine with the result that a proportion of UK winter wheat acreage will be at risk from the disease, based on current planting patterns.