Farmers Guardian
July 28th 2006

  • ‘Despair’ over milk prices as NFU Cymru highlights five key issues

    July 28th 2006

    FIVE urgent issues were singled out at the opening of the Royal Welsh Show.

  • £250,000 scheme to use timber and woodlands to boost rural economies

    July 28th 2006

    A £250,000 work programme to seek out new ways for forestry to boost the Welsh economy was announced at the Royal Welsh by Robinwood, the Forestry Commission Wales European project which aims to give rural Europe a new future.

  • 1,600gns peak at Lancaster’s summer sizzler

    July 28th 2006

    PRICES rose to a peak of 1,600gns at the Summer Sizzler show and sale of pedigree Holstein cattle for the Lancashire Holstein Club at Lancaster market.

  • 450hp tractor to celebrate 60th birthday

    July 28th 2006

    Belarus now boasts the most powerful rigid framed wheeled tractor in the business.

  • 700-year-old law change

    July 28th 2006

    ANCIENT laws governing the use of common land have been amended to allow the public more of a say in how they are run.

  • A tougher stance on field adverts

    July 28th 2006

    FARMERS have been warned to think carefully before allowing advertisements in fields adjoining roads following a major new clamp down by the Government.

  • Adam's Rare Breed passion

    July 28th 2006

    BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson is passionate about preserving the Cotswolds farming heritage and particularly its endangered farm animals. TOM LEVITT went to find out why he is far more than just ‘that guy off the telly’.

  • Additional funding for the para-equestrian dressage World Class Programme

    27 July 2006

    UK Sport has announced the breakdown of the £6.5million awarded to Paralympic sport through to March 2009, following the additional funds allocated to high performance sport by the Chancellor in March.

  • Arla picks up awards for butter

    July 28th 2006

    ARLA Foods won five of the different butter classes at the Cheese and Dairy Show at the Great Yorkshire Show. Arla’s Yorkshire Butter won best salted pack butter, while the company’s unsalted pack butter, and salted and unsalted bulk butters also won their classes. The unsalted pack butter, which is sold under retailer brand, went on to win the overall best butter award.

  • Awards boast record entry

    July 28th 2006

    THIS year’s True Taste Wales Food and Drink Awards have notched up another record entry – with more than 550 products from 209 companies.

  • Beef price dip – but don’t panic

    July 28th 2006

    BEEF sales have been hit by hot weather and the start of the holiday season.

  • Beet closures – agreement close

    July 28th 2006

    BRITISH Sugar and the NFU are expected to agree this week on the options available to beet growers affected by the closure of the Allscott and York factories.

  • Biggest challenge facing cheese industry

    July 28th 2006

    ONE of the biggest challenges facing the cheese industry was likely to be maintaining sufficient supplies of milk, Richard Clothier of Devon-based Wyke Farms told a Nantwich International Cheese Show press conference on Tuesday.

  • Blonde-sired heifer is commercial champion

    July 28th 2006

    A 526kg Blonde-sired heifer from Worcestershire beef producer Gilbert Brooke beat towards 140 others to win the Royal Welsh’s coveted commercial beef championship. Out of a Belgian Blue dam, the heifer was bred by well-known showman Frank Page and bought by Mr Brooke at Chelford in March.

  • BMW X3 3.0SD

    July 28th 2006

  • Botulism warning after four outbreaks

    July 28th 2006

    FARMERS have been urged to be aware of the risks of botulism in cattle that are in contact with broiler litter or animal feed contaminated with wild bird or rodent carcases.

  • Breaking the organic mould at Lumbylaw

    July 28th 2006

    Running a late lambing sheep flock on an organic farming system is not the first choice for most sheep farmers, but for Northumberland farmer Robert Lee it is a system that is proving its worth, as NEIL RYDER found out.

  • Breed loyalties ruffled with placings on merit

    July 28th 2006

    IN and in came the crowds – consolidating the Royal Welsh Show’s number one spot in Europe’s agricultural events league table.

  • Campaign urges Blair to ‘save our dairy industry’

    July 28th 2006

    A MAJOR campaign urging the Prime Minister to take immediate action to save the British dairy industry, was launched this week.

  • Carlisle sees two 2,200gns Holstein bids

    July 28th 2006

    TWO bids of 2,200gns topped the day at the Border and Lakeland Club Holstein show and sale at Carlisle.

  • Charlotte's wish - an appeal

    1 August 2006

    THE family of a nine-year-old girl who has been told by doctors that she has just two years to live is appealing for donations to buy a horsebox to make her dreams come true.

  • Charolais and Limousins rule the day in teams and pairs competitions

    July 28th 2006

    IT is a spectacle to match any other in the world of beef cattle shows – the Royal Welsh inter-breed teams of five – and this year was no exception with 17 teams competing for the £500 first prize.

  • Chocolate and strawberry roulade

    July 28th 2006

    THIS week’s recipe if from Elsie Miles of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

  • Cleveland Show

    July 28th 2006

    Leachfield Silky Cocoa leads the way to win inter-breed championship

  • Collaboration pays off by cutting costs

    July 28th 2006

    ONLY 8 per cent of farmers are involved in collaborative ventures, but in the current economic climate they can offer real opportunities to cut costs and develop the farm business.

  • Cull cow waste continues

    July 28th 2006

    BEEF worth more than £40m is being lost every year to the national fallen stock scheme.

  • Dairy Crest gets Express

    July 28th 2006

    DAIRY company Arla Foods plans to sell the Express Dairies depot operations business and dairies at Liverpool and Nottingham to Dairy Crest for £33 million, it was announced this week.

  • Dairy farmers’ success with two breeds

    July 28th 2006

    LLANELLI dairy cattle exhibitors Iean and Eiddwen Harries narrowly missed a double in the breed supreme championships at the show – nevertheless, they were not disappointed, taking the Dairy Shorthorn supreme championship and reserve award in the Holstein lines.

  • Dogs of all descriptions

    July 28th 2006

    NOT 101 Dalmations, but 101 packs of hounds from the length and breadth of the country were represented at last week’s Festival of Hunting at the East of England Showground in Peterborough.

  • Drought tolerance important factor in OSR choice

    July 28th 2006

    WITH June rainfall across England just 38 per cent of the long-term average and mean temperatures for the month nearly 2 per cent higher than the average of the past 30 years, drought tolerance should be an increasingly important factor in oilseed rape variety selection this autumn.

  • Ease set-aside rules – NFU

    July 28th 2006

    A CALL for set-aside rules to be eased in order to reduce the risk of fires in the countryside and help arrest a developing shortage of fodder has been made by the NFU.

  • Eight daughters of Duncan Progress average £1,800

    July 28th 2006

    EIGHT daughters of Duncan Progress averaged just short of £1,800 each when the final portion of the Cluny herd of pedigree Holstein heifers went under the hammer at Carlisle for Ian Alexander, Banchory, Kincardineshire.

  • English Sheepdog Trials Results

    July 28th 2006

    LORTON HOUND SHOW Open, Wythop, Cockermouth (49 ran): 1, D. Goulding (Brigham) Gael, 81 of 90; 2, C. Todd (Loweswater) Bill, 79; 3, M. Elliott (Lazonby) Chip, 76, TIME; 4, L. Cowper (Threlkeld) Jess, 76; 5, A. Temple (Holmrook) Meg, 76; 6, J. Relph (Borrowdale) Eve, 75.

  • Every seed counts

    July 28th 2006

    Lower seed rates deliver benefits such as improving canopy management and ensuring the crop is not too thick or lush with larger ears. Reduced sowing rates, especially when combined with early drilling, means every seed must grow to achieve the optimum target plant population. Any failure in seed establishment means significant yield loss.

  • Farm sector starts to shed pollutant tag

    July 28th 2006

    FARMING received a significant boost to its environmental record this week but was warned it could still face compulsory measures over pesticide use.

  • Farming setback turned into a retail success

    July 28th 2006

    When boom quickly turned to bust for the pig industry on the family’s Nantwich farm, Andrew and Sarah Shufflebotham converted one of the pig buildings into a farm shop – a venture which has gone on to win a major farming award, as NEIL RYDER found out.

  • Feed values similar to last year despite challenging silage season

    July 28th 2006

    DESPITE a generally challenging silaging season, and later than ideal cutting dates, the initial results from almost 700 grass silages analysed so far by animal feed specialists Frank Wright, part of the BASF Group, indicate feed values similar to last year, when silages generally fed well throughout the winter.

  • Garlic to ward off the flies

    July 28th 2006

    GARLIC works wonders in warding off flies which can be a real irritant to livestock during the summer months.With that in mind, feed company Harbro are now adding the ingredient to a number of their molassed mineral supplements for cattle and sheep.This produces a garlic-smelling sweat, which seems to keep the flies at bay.

  • Getting a foot on the farming ladder

    July 28th 2006

    COULD you help a YFC member wanting to get a foot on the farming ladder? Wales Young Farmers are calling on farmers with ‘opportunities’ to register with the organisation’s ‘database for opportunity’ so that links can be established that are mutually beneficial. For example, the chance of setting up a joint venture, helping a farmer better prepare for retirement or simply to help someone progress in farming.

  • GM opposition groups mobilise

    July 28th 2006

    ANTI-GM groups are mobilising public opposition to the Defra proposals on co-existence, growing GM near non-GM crops, announced last week.

  • Go soft for alcohol, says breeder

    July 28th 2006

    GROWERS signing up to bio-ethanol contracts should be choosing wheats with high alcohol extraction rates.

  • Going wider to increase work rates

    July 28th 2006

    The potato industry has been locked into a two-row system for years but now there are moves afoot to head into wider territory – three rows and more. Andy Collings discovers one grower who believes the advantages outweigh the costs.

  • Goulding and Gail win open and local

    July 28th 2006

    DAVID Goulding and Gail won both the open and local classes at the Lorton Hound Show Trial on Saturday, at Wythop, near Cockermouth, Cumbria.

  • Government rejects calls for statutory spray buffer zones

    July 28th 2006

    THE Government has rejected calls for statutory buffer zones to separate sprayed farmland and residential property, instead advocating voluntary schemes and increased communication between farmers and local residents.

  • Grand Cherokee SRT-8

    July 28th 2006

  • Grazing Monitor 2006

    July 28th 2006

    Plan farm infrastructure to maximise use of grazing

  • Harking back to a bygone era at the Royal Welsh Show

    July 28th 2006

    DISCO fever hit this year’s Royal Welsh Show when Wales YFC members gave their whole competitions programme a 1970s theme.

  • Historical record assists in the fells pack’s future

    July 28th 2006

    AT the end of last year Jill Mason published a book, reviewed in Farmers Guardian, recording the history of the Eskdale and Ennerdale Foxhounds, one of the fell packs which hunt in the Lake District, with the intention of donating any profits to the pack.

  • History is made – twice

    July 28th 2006

    NO-ONE who turned up to the new trials at Berriew, near Welshpool, was disappointed. For the competitors there was a long and testing course and for the spectators not a part out of sight.

  • Home-bred Limousin Millington Tangerine takes beef supreme

    July 28th 2006

    IT was a long, hot day in the sun in the beef lines but there were no complaints from York Limousin exhibitors Millington Grange Estate who took the supreme inter-breed championship with their stylish Royal Highland inter-breed champion, the four-year-old Millington Tangerine.

  • Human bovine TB link a ‘food scare’

    July 28th 2006

    BADGER welfare campaigners have been accused of stoking up a food scare this week after claiming 3,000 TB-infected cattle enter the human food chain every year.

  • Hummer H3

    July 28th 2006

  • Improving lives in Wales

    July 28th 2006

    ONE of Wales’s most successful EU Objective 1 programmes celebrated the second anniversary of the completion of its first round of woodland creation projects at the Royal Welsh Show.

  • It’s dad and daughter’s inter-breed showtime

    July 28th 2006

    Royal Lancashire Show

  • Janmi herd dispersal top of 4,200gns

    July 28th 2006

    UNDER soaring summer temperatures at Ings Farm, Castley, near Otley, West Yorkshire, the dispersal of Michael and Jane Hunter’s Janmi herd of pedigree Holsteins saw a top price of 4,200gns.

  • Jones family snap up pig inter-breeds silverware

    July 28th 2006

    ALL the silverware in the pig inter-breed finals headed in the same direction with the Jones family from Pontypridd taking the individual and pairs titles.

  • Keep an eye on crops as pest infestations increase

    July 28th 2006

    POTATO and sugar beet growers in Lincolnshire have been warned that recent hot weather conditions have increased the risk of pest infestations in their crops.

  • Kendall rounds on Miliband over 2007 TB delay

    July 28th 2006

    NFU president Peter Kendall stepped up the war of words over bovine TB as he rounded on Defra Secretary of State David Miliband for the latest delay.

  • Land registration provides real proof of ownership

    July 28th 2006

    FARMERS attending this week’s Royal Welsh Show were being encouraged to register their land – and being offered a special discount for doing so at the Farmers Union of Wales building.

  • Launceston Show

    July 28th 2006

    Double top the Nosegay way

  • Leave rural Britain to the experts not Government

    July 28th 2006

    EXPERIENCE is a ‘fine thing’ so they say. If right, which of course it is, by now we should have learnt that the running of rural Britain must be handed back to those who understand it for we can clearly see that Westminster, along with the Civil Service that supports it, is practically devoid of any rural knowledge or intelligence.

  • Lowther Horse Driving Trials 2006 announces new organic farm tour

    1 August 2006

    VISITORS to this summer’s Lowther Horse Driving Trials and Country Fair (August 4-6) will get to see more than ever before this year thanks to a new farm tour that will showcase the estate’s range of premier organic livestock to the Lowther crowds for the very first time.

  • Mid Devon Show

    July 28th 2006

    Nanscient Gold gives a sparkling performance to take inter-breed title

  • Milk Links cuts 0.65ppl

    July 28th 2006

    MILK Link has announced a conventional milk price reduction of 0.65ppl effective from July 1, 2006.

  • More demand makes herbage seed enterprise attractive

    July 28th 2006

    GROWING demand for high quality home-bred grass varieties, together with greater price stability are making a herbage seed enterprise more attractive, according to British Seed Houses.

  • Nantwich International Cheese Show

    31 July 2006

    ONE of the biggest challenges facing the cheese industry was likely to be maintaining sufficient supplies of milk, Richard Clothier of Devon-based Wyke Farms told a Nantwich International Cheese Show press conference on Tuesday (25th July).

  • Nantwich International Cheese Show

    July 28th 2006

    ONE of the biggest challenges facing the cheese industry was likely to be maintaining sufficient supplies of milk, Richard Clothier of Devon-based Wyke Farms told a Nantwich International Cheese Show press conference on Tuesday.

  • New employment contract rules – from October 1

    July 28th 2006

    FARMERS who employ staff and who do not have contracts of employment in place for them, are leaving themselves exposed to new employment regulations.

  • New Hybrids

    July 28th 2006

    Growers should re-evaluate hybrids in a serious way

  • New measures to tackle bovine TB in Wales – but not until end of the year

    July 28th 2006

    TWO new measures aimed at tackling bovine TB in Wales were announced this week by Welsh Assembly Countryside Minister, Carwyn Jones – but any wildlife control initiatives will have to wait until the end of the year at least.

  • NEWS IN BRIEF

    July 28th 2006

    Land Sales

  • NFUS seek to bring rationale to edicts

    July 28th 2006

    NFU Scotland has set up a ‘regulation action group’ as part of its ongoing campaign to bring a degree of rationale to edicts emanating from Brussels.

  • Nissan Murano GT-C

    July 28th 2006

  • No plan B to restart WTO talks

    July 28th 2006

    AFTER more than five years, thousands of meetings of officials and high profile negotiating sessions by Trade and Agriculture Ministers in Cancun, Hong Kong and Geneva, the Doha World Trade Organisation round has been parked – with no plan B in place for getting the process started again.

  • Oilseed Rape

    July 28th 2006

    TIME of flowering, the place for hybrids, the implications of growing more oilseed rape in the rotation, club root and high oleic/low linolenic (HOLL) varieties were among the subjects touched on by NIAB oilseeds specialist Simon Kightley as he guided growers around the plots at NIAB’s Cambridge headquarters trials ground.

  • OSR Development

    July 28th 2006

    Monitoring pinpoints varieties best suited to early or late sowing

  • Oxford Down’s yearly Worcester show sees prices to 400gns

    July 28th 2006

    THE sixth annual show and sale of the Oxford Down Sheep Breeders’ Association held at Worcester market saw prices rise to 400gns.

  • Penrith Show

    July 28th 2006

    Belgian Blue takes the inter-breed title

  • Perception not fact holding back dairy consolidation

    July 28th 2006

    THE Office of Fair Trading is not opposed to vertical integration, co-op mergers or processor mergers in the dairy sector its director of mergers has claimed.

  • Pioneering Tir Gofal scheme set to reopen

    July 28th 2006

    A NEW application window for Tir Gofal – the pioneering Wales-based agri-environment scheme – will open in November, Welsh Assembly Countryside Minister, Carwyn Jones, announced at this week’s Royal Welsh Show.

  • Potato crops hit by high temperatures

    July 28th 2006

    THE hot weather is continuing to have a negative effect on crops across the country.

  • Protection decisions – before the crop goes in the ground

    July 28th 2006

    CROP protection decisions must be made not once the crop goes into the ground, but before.

  • Ram sale entries buoyant

    July 28th 2006

    ENTRIES for the NSA Wales and Border Early Ram Sale – being sponsored by Farmers Guardian – have risen so much that the organisers have had to bring the starting time forward to 10.30am.The sale at the Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, on Monday, August 7 is expected to attract strong interest, largely due to a buoyant early lamb trade and better prices throughout the sector.

  • Recommended List candidate varieties 2006 – strengths and weaknesses

    July 28th 2006

    (Gross output figures should not be interpreted as official HGCA data)

  • Reconsider dual-purpose barley role

    July 28th 2006

    CEREAL growers still growing a dual-purpose malting or feed winter barley, but who regularly do not achieve a malting premium, should consider doing a fresh income calculation versus modern high-yielding feed barley, a leading plant breeder is urging.

  • Resolving trade disputes

    July 28th 2006

    Chartered arbitrator Peter Brown explains why it can be an advantage to have a better understanding of dispute resolution in UK agriculture.

  • Rich pickings as Welsh lamb heads to UAE

    July 28th 2006

    EXPORTS of Welsh lamb to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates will be allowed from this autumn for the first time since a ban was imposed in 2001 – and could develop into a sizeable market right across the Gulf States

  • Ride for research

    28 July 2006

    A CHANGE of ponies, a wild night in a remote Scottish bothy and a breakdown in electronic communications are just some of the problems Vyv Wood-Gee and her daughter, Elsa, have already overcome on their ride south across Britain to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

  • Riding across Britain to raise money for Cancer Research UK

    28 July 2006

    Vyv Wood-Gee and her daughter Elsa are riding from John O’Groats to Lands End to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

  • Road Test: Range Rover Sport Diesel

    July 28th 2006

    Land Rover’s intentions were good. Design a more modern, sportier version of the Range Rover that would appeal to a much younger audience, leaving the pipe and slippers generation to ramble around in the traditional Range Rover.

  • Royal Lancashire Show

    July 28th 2006

    Delight for the Woods as all five entries win their classes

  • Royal Welsh Beef Results

    July 28th 2006

    Beef inter-breed (A. Fotheringham, Forganderny) Sup., Millington Grange Estate, Millington Tangerine (Limousin); res., D.E. Evans, Merdy Ulm (Charolais).

  • Royal Welsh news in brief

    July 28th 2006

    Online tickets very popular

  • Royal Welsh Sheep Results

    July 28th 2006

    Inter-breed (Judge, E. Quick, Crediton) Supreme, T.L. Pritchard (Charollais); reserve, N.B.J. Layton (Texel).

  • Rural life faces a viability dilemma

    July 28th 2006

    A WARNING came this week that the viability of thousands of farms and rural businesses could be hit hard if Single Payments were top-sliced by up to 20p in the £ under EU modulation plans.

  • Ryedale Show

    July 28th 2006

    Couple ‘thrilled to bits’ at Ravenfield Jess V’s hat-trick

  • Scottish East Region Rally

    July 28th 2006

    THE Young Farmers Scottish East Region Rally was held at Buckholm Farm, Galashiels.

  • Scottish Sheepdog Trials Results

    July 28th 2006

    IRVINE (Judge, W. Limond, Kirkmichael), Invitation, 25 ran, 1, J.R. Welsh (Girvan) Fly, 96; 2, I. McMillan (Newton Stewart) Dave, 95; 3, T. Blacklock (Sorn) Moss, 89; 4, J.J. Templeton (Fenwick) Ted, 88; 5, J. Seton (Darvel) Gael, 87; 6, B. Welsh (Moniaive) Spot, 86. Youngest handler, R. Welsh (Patna) Maid.

  • Selecting the riders, trainers and judges of the future on the Ponies UK scheme

    July 28th 2006

    The Elite Rider Programme run by Ponies Association (UK) aims to encourage showing riders to improve their performance and skills via training sessions. LIZ FALKINGHAM went along to an appraisal day, where potential candidates for the scheme undertook ridden and working hunter (jumping) sessions before being graded accordingly.

  • Sheepdogs Trials Diary

    July 28th 2006

    SCOTLAND

  • Single OSR break not sufficient for take-all safeguard

    July 28th 2006

    A SINGLE year of oilseed rape may not be a sufficient break to adequately safeguard first wheats from take-all, trials at Masstock Arable’s SMART Farm in Wellington, Somerset, have revealed.

  • Skipton Horse Trials

    31 July 2006

    August 5th - 6th, 2006

  • Soil Protection Review (SPR) deadline

    2 August 2006

    THE RPA has reminded farmers in England that their Soil Protection Review (SPR) template must be complete by September 1.

  • Store cattle in demand at Dingwall

    July 28th 2006

    QUALITY cattle were in strong demand at the third anniversary show and sale of 1,400 store cattle at Dingwall Market.

  • Suffolk rams hit 70,000gns ...but average down £41

    July 28th 2006

    THE best ram lambs sold well on Saturday at Ingliston near Edinburgh at the annual ram sale staged by the Northern Area of the Suffolk Sheep Society.

  • Super Suffolk success brings champion look to the Halls of fame

    July 28th 2006

    Royal Lancashire Show

  • The heat is on

    31 July 2006

    FARMERS and agricultural landowners must appreciate that farm buildings and the land adjacent to them will have to comply with the new Fire Regulations, which come into force on October 1.

  • Tim’s 10-year drought ends with sheep pairs inter-breed award

    July 28th 2006

    A 10-YEAR drought was broken in style at the Royal Welsh Show on Wednesday when Tim Pritchard won the inter-breed sheep pairs championship.

  • Toyota Hilux

    July 28th 2006

  • Twin mixer for diet feeder

    July 28th 2006

    RS Agribusiness has introduced the RMH VS30 self-propelled diet feeder that utilises a twin auger mixer.

  • Two more join M series

    July 28th 2006

    It might not yet be available in Europe, but in the US at least Kubota has added two revamped M series four-cylinder tractors to its portfolio.

  • Two more Pony Club teams qualify for HOYS

    31 July 2006

    After a hot weekend at the two-day mounted games zone qualifiers in Cheshire, Sir WW Wynn’s Hunt branch and Oakley Hunt West branch of the Pony Club have both earned their HOYS tickets to compete in the Prince Philip Cup, sponsored by Farmers Guardian, in October.

  • Two-year-old Middle White takes the individual honours

    July 28th 2006

    Royal Lancashire Show

  • UK grown red wheat contracts

    July 28th 2006

    A CONTRACT to supply red wheat to millers Rank Hovis and selected regional millers has been launched by merchant, Premium Crops.

  • Volvo XC90

    July 28th 2006

  • Weather helps 10pc rise in barley yield

    July 28th 2006

    WINTER barley yields are generally higher than the five-year mean according to early indications from this summer’s HGCA trials around the country.

  • Welsh cheese launched

    July 28th 2006

    UK Ministers and EU officials helped launch a new Welsh cheese at the show.

  • Welsh Sheepdog Trials Results

    July 28th 2006

    MATHON SDT. Open National: 1, G. Thomas (Llanelli) Moss lost 10; 2, M. Watson (Eastleach) Storm, 11; 3, M. Watkins, Spok, 12; 4, Y. Abrey (Llanfilo) Fly, 14; 5, G. Coombs (Pontypridd) Nap, 15; 6, D. Brick (Much Wenlock) Sally, 16. Novice: 1, M. Watkins, Spok, 12; 2, Y. Abrey, Fly, 14; 3, D. Brick, Sally, 16; 4, G. Owen (Penybont) Nell, 18. Young Handler: A. Smith (Tenbury Wells) Lad. Local Class: D. Lloyd (Kimbolton) Izy.

  • Winter Wheat

    July 28th 2006

    THE 2006 candidate winter wheat varieties offered some good disease resistance and yield characteristics, although much depended on their performance this harvest, said NIAB’s Clare Leaman.

  • World Equestrian Games show jumping squad announced

    1 August 2006

    The show jumping squad that will represent Great Britain at the 2006 World Equestrian Games is as follows:

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