Farmers Guardian
July 6th 2007

  • ‘A bit agricultural’ is the way we always do things

    July 6th 2007

    VIEWPOINT: By Jim Webster

  • £1,680 peak price in Supermoo pedigree dispersal

    July 6th 2007

    PRICES peaked at £1,680 when the entire milking and dry portion of B.D. and R.M. Scambler’s Supermoo herd of pedigree Holsteins was dispersed on farm at Parkham, Devon.

  • 2,100gns top price at Nanhoron pedigree Holstein dispersal where 17 sell at over the 1,500gns mark

    July 6th 2007

    A TOP of 2,100gns was realised and 17 sold at over 1,500gns at the first sale to disperse the Nanhoron herd of pedigree Holsteins based at Pwllheli, Gwynedd.

  • 22ppl is being paid, says Tesco

    July 6th 2007

    MILK producers have been asking ‘is anyone actually receiving Tesco’s 22ppl yet’.

  • A good turnout for machinery dispersal

    July 6th 2007

    Despite the heavy rain, there was still a good turnout for a machinery dispersal sale at Dairy Farm, Rainford, St Helens, Merseyside.

  • A thriving Northumberland dairy trusting to natural instincts to make the most out of its milk

    July 6th 2007

    Dairy farming in a remote area of north Northumberland with low rainfall and sandy soil was unusual when the herd was established at North Doddington Farm more than six decades ago. But location and a commitment to milk production has granted growing success, as Jennifer Mackenzie found out.

  • An hour in the July garden

    July 6th 2007

    From hosepipe bans to flood warnings, things have certainly changed since this time last year, writes Paul Peacock.

  • Answering your sampling questions

    July 6th 2007

    HOW do you go about sampling for soil and plant borne pests in order to make informed crop protection decisions?

  • Arla and M&S up producer prices

    July 6th 2007

    ARLA Foods Milk Partnership (AFMP) members are to receive 20.1ppl for their milk from July 1. The processor is also suspending its excess litres balancing charge.

  • ATV challenge

    July 6th 2007

    Edward Leach representing Berkshire YFC in the ATV challenge drove through the set course hitched to a trailer, manoeuvring it through various obstacles and reversing into 'set' garages.

  • Award for IGER Plant Breeding

    July 6th 2007

    IGER Plant Breeding, Aberystwyth, is the recipient of the Royal Agricultural Society of England Technology Award 2007.It goes to ‘an individual or team that has applied a scientific advance to develop a technology through the creation or development of a product or process’.

  • Backers wanted for tenancy

    July 6th 2007

    The farming industry is being urged to give its backing to a community-led bid for the tenancy of the Wye College Farm.

  • Beef Cattle Results

    July 6th 2007

    Inter-breed (Judge, E. Jones, Denbighshire) Supreme D. and M. Cormack, Newstart Upsydaisy (Limousin); reserve, J.H. and V.G. Wood, Popes Nellys Princess (Simmental).

  • Benn gets off on wrong foot

    July 6th 2007

    HILARY Benn certainly got off on the wrong foot as far as the Tenant Farmers’ Association was concerned, after he had to cancel an appearance at the organisation’s reception on Monday.

  • Berthoud wins new equipment title with its Tenor trailed sprayer

    July 6th 2007

    Berthoud was the overall winner of the Royal Show new equipment awards, sponsored by Farmers Guardian.

  • Biobeds and sprayer washings disposal

    July 6th 2007

    BIOBEDS are not the only means of disposing of sprayer washings containing pesticides, but are probably one of the best ways of dealing with this waste liquid, NFU pesticides specialist Paul Chambers told a North East NFU arable meeting at Heighington, near Darlington.

  • Book of Kells justifies team's faith

    6 July 2007

    HEAVYWEIGHT hunter Book of Kells justified his team’s faith in him by taking the ridden hunter championship on the Tuesday of the show.

  • Bringing new milling wheat varieties to the market

    July 6th 2007

    Nickerson’s plant breeding centre at Docking, Norfolk, is home to one of the company’s winter wheat breeding programmes, the other being based at Woolpit, Suffolk. CLEMMIE GLEESON met some of the team.

  • Brown rust flourishes in winter wheat crops

    July 6th 2007

    WITH no cold spell to check it over, winter brown rust has flourished in winter wheat crops this season, Stuart Knight of TAG told visitors to the agronomy group’s open day at Morley in Norfolk.

  • Buffer feeding may increase milk yields after wet weather

    July 6th 2007

    THE recent wet weather is causing concern for dairy farmers with poor grazing conditions and falling dry matter content meaning reduced milk yields.

  • Business plan projects

    July 6th 2007

    After months of rigorous planning, agriculture students at Myerscough College, Lancashire, presented their business plan projects to a professional panel of industry representatives

  • Cabinet reshuffle – It’s all change at Defra

    July 6th 2007

    HILARY Benn gave his first public address as Defra Secretary at the Royal Show on Monday, read FG's report and listen to his views on a number of key issues in our podcast.

  • Cabinet reshuffle – It’s all change at Defra

    July 6th 2007

    HILARY Benn gave his first public address as Defra Secretary at the Royal Show on Monday, read FG's report and listen to his views on a number of key issues in our podcast.

  • Cereal shortage fears prompt call to abolish EU set-aside

    5 July 2007

    THE European Union farming industry has asked the European Commission to scrap set-aside next year, as floods in the UK and serious droughts in Europe raise fear of a poor harvest and grain shortages.

  • Charlotte wins training award

    July 6th 2007

    HARPER Adams University College student Charlotte Johnston, aged 20, has won the annual Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ Training Award, sponsored by John Deere.

  • Chip and Jack take the spoils at the home of the Pembrokeshire sheepdogs

    July 6th 2007

    TREMYNYDD Fach is the farm, more usually known as the home of the Pembrokeshire sheepdogs.

  • Conservative effort to ‘strengthen’ farmland

    July 6th 2007

    THE Conservatives would introduce polices to ‘strengthen’ farmland to make it more able to deal with heavy rain, under policies recommended by its Quality of Life Group.

  • Considering collaboration as a different approach to farming

    July 6th 2007

    ONE of the advantages of the RMIF farm business clubs, said Ian Cairns of SAC North England, was to help farmers consider different ways to approach their businesses – such as collaborating with others.

  • Controlling bovine TB – what can lessons can be learned from across the Irish Sea?

    July 6th 2007

    Across the Irish Sea, a strategy aimed at controlling bovine TB spread in cattle and badgers appears to be working. Yet this did not stop the UK’s bTB advisers concluding that badger culling cannot ‘meaningfully contribute to the future control’ of the disease in Britain. Continuing our look at the fall-out from the ISG report, ALISTAIR DRIVER spoke to a key figure behind the Irish policy to gauge what lessons we can learn from Ireland’s approach.

  • Controversial cost sharing plans look like being shelved

    5 July 2007

    DEFRA Minister Jeff Rooker all but ruled out controversial plans for Defra to push ahead with an England only disease cost-sharing Bill in November.

  • Cotebrook Loch Maree wins heavy horses

    July 6th 2007

    THE Shire mare, Cotebrook Loch Maree, took the heavy horse championship for Martin Fountain.The mare, by Moorfield Charles out of Belmont Queenie, is no stranger to success having won 15 championships in 2005.

  • Crichel Principal and Zidane daughters both make 1,450gns

    July 6th 2007

    A CRICHEL Principal second calver and a Zidane daughter sold for the top prices of 1,450gns when the Llanishen pedigree herd of Holsteins was dispersed for John Phillips and his son Jonathan, Llanishen, Cardiff.

  • Dairy cattle results

    July 6th 2007

    Inter-breed (Judge, D. Baynes, Hexham, Northumberland) Supreme, Almond Holsteins, Almond Stormatic Avis (Holstein); reserve, E.T. Tomlinson and Son, Sandyford Clover 10 (Ayrshire).

  • Dairy honours on cow’s first outing

    July 6th 2007

    A HOLSTEIN cow on her first outing took dairy inter-breed honours.

  • Defra formally gives up double tagging fight

    6 July 2007

    THE UK has formally withdrawn its application to the European Commission for an extension to the derogation from double tagging of sheep.

  • Defra issues paper on Commons Registers

    July 6th 2007

    DEFRA has unveiled plans to update the Commons Registers, following complaints by farmers who face losing parts of their Single Payments because the register is 40 years out of date.

  • Digging for victory

    July 6th 2007

    Chris Meeks of Warwickshire YFC competing in the mini-digger challenge. He was given 15 minutes to complete the course, which had been laid out as part of the YFC area at the Royal Show.

  • Emma’s top class when it comes to stockjudging

    July 6th 2007

    THREE breed societies joined together at the Royal Show to offer a top stockjudging competition for its young members.

  • Emma’s top class when it comes to stockjudging

    July 6th 2007

    THREE breed societies joined together at the Royal Show to offer a top stockjudging competition for its young members.

  • Employee of the year finalists are revealed

    July 6th 2007

    THREE finalists from across Wales have been shortlisted for this year’s NFU Cymru-NatWest Welsh Farm Employee of the Year Award, with the winner being announced at the Royal Welsh Show at the end of the month.

  • End of the line for ‘sacred bullock’

    July 6th 2007

    THE Welsh Assembly has called time on Shambo, the ‘sacred’ Friesian bullock that has tested bovine TB positive at the Skanda Vale Community religious retreat near Carmarthen.

  • English Sheepdog Trials results

    July 6th 2007

    NORTHUMBERLAND LEAGUE, Debdon Farm, Rothbury, Open (47 ran): 1, G. Thompson (Edmundbyres) Kyle, 92 of 100; 2, J. Allen (Selkirk) Trim, 90; 3, M. Davidson (Gorebridge) Dave, 89; 4, C. Balmbra (Wooler) Glen, 86; 5, R. Bradley (Hamsterley) Flo, 83; 6, R. Dalziel (Ettrick) Spot, 83.

  • Environmental ethos at centre’s heart

    July 6th 2007

    WORK is due to start this month on the construction of a new eco-friendly, low carbon demonstration centre on the Lincolnshire showground.

  • Extra funds won’t help flooded farmers

    5 July 2007

    DEFRA Minister Hilary Benn has committed his support to those affected by severe weather conditions, signalling a U-turn in the Government’s proposed cuts in flood defences.

  • Farmers missing out on green tax incentives

    July 6th 2007

    MANY farmers and landowners are unaware that their business can qualify for green tax incentives which will reduce their tax bill.

  • Farmers urged to be vigilant over bluetongue

    6 July 2007

    LIVESTOCK farmers have been urged to be vigilant and carefully consider the risk of infections when importing cattle into the UK.

  • Farmers urged to be vigilant over bluetongue

    6 July 2007

    LIVESTOCK farmers have been urged to be vigilant and carefully consider the risk of infections when importing cattle into the UK.

  • Farmers urged to safeguard farmland birds

    July 6th 2007

    SEVERAL bird species, including corn buntings, yellow wagtails and tree sparrows, are having a hard time in many parts of the country – but they have been discovered in important numbers in the Humberhead Levels.

  • Finding a way for RMIF business clubs to continue after funding ends later this year

    July 6th 2007

    The Red Meat Industry Forum has hailed its farm business clubs as a huge success, with three times more formed than it originally aimed for. JOANNE PUGH reports from a RMIF farm field day discussing three themes commonly explored by the clubs – genetic improvement, health planning and collaboration.

  • Firm in place to manage the disposal of Stonegate eggs

    July 6th 2007

    A corporate finance firm has been appointed by Noble Foods to manage the disposal process of the Stonegate eggs business.

  • First RMH triple auger feeder sold

    July 6th 2007

    RMH has sold its first triple auger feeder in the UK. Bought by brothers William and James Goodwin, the WAV35 will be used to feed the 700 milkers and followers on their Sussex farm.

  • Fonterra focus on driving change

    July 6th 2007

    THE New Zealand dairy industry must invest more in the fresh milk market to avoid being marginalised by international competition, farmers have been told.

  • Framlingham and Atlas link

    July 6th 2007

    FRAMLINGHAM Farmers and Atlas Agriculture are seeking to combine business interests. It is hoped the new organisation will be in place by July 2008 and have a combined turnover of almost £10million, representing almost 1,000 members farming in excess of 550,000 acres.

  • Further studies show benefits of farmer collaboration

    July 6th 2007

    THE English Farming and Food Partnerships launched two new modules of its Share to Farm project at the Royal Show – and welcomed HSBC Agriculture as the official sponsor of Share to Farm.

  • Future farming plans survey

    July 6th 2007

    The NFYFC is currently running an on-line survey to find out about YFC members’ future plans in farming.

  • Future farming plans survey

    July 6th 2007

    The NFYFC is currently running an on-line survey to find out about YFC members’ future plans in farming.

  • Getting the better of blight and slugs

    July 6th 2007

    POTATO growers are reporting very high levels of slug damage this season, with the current wet and warm soil environment proving ideal for pest activity in the root zone.

  • Grinkle Topmark Rush makes 3,000gns in Yorkshire reduction sale

    July 6th 2007

    BIDDING peaked at 3,000gns and three of the four top prices were paid for members of the Rush cow family when Richard and Heather Thompson held a major reduction sale from their Grinkle herd of Holsteins, Whitby, Yorkshire.

  • Growers urged to make use of older active ingredients

    July 6th 2007

    MAKE the most of isoproturon and trifluralin while they are still available, growers attending the Arable Group’s (TAG) open day at Morley, Norfolk, were advised.

  • Growing confidence boosts dairy prices to £1,500 peak

    July 6th 2007

    PRICES continued to soar at Bentham Auction’s weekly sale of dairy cattle and bidding peaked at £1,500 for a Juror Kendal pedigree heifer from J.W. and D. Robinson and Son, Kendal, selling to Geoff Blezard, Ribchester.

  • Growing demands on lupin development

    July 6th 2007

    LONG-TERM work at IGER is also looking at improving the varieties of yellow and narrow-leafed lupins suitable for growing in the UK both as a protein source and soil nutrient provider in the light of growing demands to reduce diffuse pollution, particularly that of nitrogen.

  • Half of direct deals signed

    July 6th 2007

    TESCO announced at the show that almost half of its ‘direct deal’ contracts with milk farmers have now been completed.

  • Harper doubles pig unit for research

    July 6th 2007

    Harper Adams University College is doubling the size of its pig unit to strengthen its research development for the commercial industry.

  • Health planning: Focus on the problems

    July 6th 2007

    THE most important thing about herd health planning was to monitor the on-farm situation to identify the problems and concentrate effort only where it was needed.

  • Hickstead Derby victory for Geoff after 30 years of trying

    6 July 2007

    RISING to the extra challenge set by four inches of rain over the previous few days, and coping admirably with the resulting wet, muddy ground, veteran show jumper Geoff Billington proved he is still one of the best by finally winning the Hickstead DFS Derby three decades after he first entered it.

  • Holstein cow Almond Stormatic Avis sweeps to dairy inter-breed accolade

    July 6th 2007

    HEAVY rain called for desperate measures with Monday’s dairy classes and finals all relocated to two temporary rings tucked away at the very bottom of the cattle sheds.

  • Horse and Country TV launched at show by Countess of Wessex

    6 July 2007

    HRH Sophie, Countess of Wessex, launched a new equestrian and rural Sky television channel Horse & Country TV, at the company’s new building at Stoneleigh Park on Monday of the Royal Show.

  • Incentive for herbage seed

    July 6th 2007

    BRITISH Seed Houses is hoping a new ‘wheat tracker’ contract for the major IGER-bred agricultural perennial ryegrasses will provide an added incentive for farmers to grow herbage seed this autumn.

  • Increased capacity for amazone weigh cell spreaders

    July 6th 2007

    Amazone has increased the capacity of its ZA-M ProfiS weigh cell spreaders. The updated range has a beefed-up frame to carry the 1,500 to 3,000-litre capacity hoppers.

  • Industry leaders not concerned by new Minister’s lifestyle

    July 6th 2007

    MEAT industry leaders were united in insisting Hilary Benn’s choice to be a vegetarian was ‘irrelevant’ as far as his ability to be an effective Minister was concerned.

  • Innovation for future farm development

    July 6th 2007

    Michael Houlden Wells and Andrew Creed of Glastonbury YFC, Somerset, won first prize in the Farm Business Development competition, after demonstrating how they would help promote the forthcoming Year of Food and Farming.

  • Innovation for future farm development

    July 6th 2007

    Michael Houlden Wells and Andrew Creed of Glastonbury YFC, Somerset, won first prize in the Farm Business Development competition, after demonstrating how they would help promote the forthcoming Year of Food and Farming.

  • Innovation for future farm development

    July 6th 2007

    Michael Houlden Wells and Andrew Creed of Glastonbury YFC, Somerset, won first prize in the Farm Business Development competition, after demonstrating how they would help promote the forthcoming Year of Food and Farming.

  • Interest will be paid on owed Single Payments

    July 6th 2007

    DEFRA Secretary Hilary Benn has announced that farmers still owed Single Payments after the June 30 EU deadline will be paid interest.

  • JCB takes gold with Fastrac in RASE Machinery Awards

    July 6th 2007

    JCB has topped the RASE Machinery Awards with the Fastrac 8250, winning the Gold Medal. Seven silver medals were handed out.

  • Joint marketing possibilities for NZ and China could bring greater lamb returns

    July 6th 2007

    MAJOR meat companies in New Zealand may already be looking towards joint marketing in China and other markets after achieving the breakthrough deal bringing PPCS fully into the New Zealand Lamb Company business in North America.

  • June 2007 Winner

    1 July 2007

    THE winner of the June caption competition, who wins £50 of Countrywide vouchers, is Craig Parkinson, Fermor Road, Tarleton, Lancashire, with:

  • Kendall calls for an ‘early warning’ system

    July 6th 2007

    THE NFU is calling for an ‘early warning’ system that would be triggered when production in a particular sector falls to unsustainably low levels.

  • Lady Byford named RABDF president

    July 6th 2007

    CONSERVATIVE peer Lady Hazel Byford has been elected as the new president of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF).

  • Liberal Democrats unveil a tough stance on bTB

    July 6th 2007

    THE Liberal Democrats would take ‘immediate and decisive’ action to control disease in badgers in bovine TB hotspot areas, the party reveals in a document outlining its vision for rural England.

  • Limousin tops the beef lines – with Simmental reserve

    July 6th 2007

    BEEF cattle from northern England took top honours in the inter-breed, with a Limousin from a North Yorkshire herd taking the overall championship and a Lancashire family winning reserve with a Simmental.

  • Limousins proving ‘the best in the West’

    July 6th 2007

    THE South West Limousin Breeders’ Club runs from Wiltshire through Somerset and away down to the tip of Cornwall, so it is easy to feel far from the sales at Carlisle and Perth or even the Royal Show.

  • Local show is forced to cancel livestock classes

    July 6th 2007

    THE continuing bad weather has forced the organisers of the Goosnargh and Longridge Show in Lancashire, due to be held tomorrow (Saturday), to cancel all livestock classes.The show, with limited classes, is now being held at the Civic Hall in Longridge.

  • Look at sampling now

    July 6th 2007

    IF British egg producers are to stay ahead of the game, they must address the new EU zoonoses directive on salmonella sooner rather than later, according to Adam Goddard of Lohmann Animal Health.

  • Major breakthroughs for red clover research

    July 6th 2007

    MAJOR breakthroughs are also emerging from research involving red clover – known as PPO and PUFAS.

  • Maximising OSR potential with optimum establishment rates and seed treatments

    July 6th 2007

    GROWERS looking for higher yields from their rape need to be establishing no more than 50 plants sq m. That is the conclusion from joint Grainfarmers/UAP Project Energise trials last year.

  • MONTE CARLO’S BISCUITS

    July 6th 2007

    THIS recipe has been sent in by Mrs R. Williams, Tyeanol Bungalow, Tufton, Clarbeston Road, Dyfed, who says it is ‘something quite different’ to try.

  • NBA’s new head aims to reunite beef producers

    July 6th 2007

    THE National Beef Association’s former policy adviser Kim Haywood will replace Robert Forster as chief executive when he retires in August.A successor to Mr Forster had been found in Defra man Stuart Roberts but he recently decided to accept an offer from the British Meat Processors Association.Kim Haywood said one of her priorities would be to try and re-unite beef producers north and south of the Border.

  • New campaign to attract young people into farming

    July 6th 2007

    THE NFU has launched a new campaign designed to attract young people into farming.

  • New campaign to attract young people into farming

    July 6th 2007

    THE NFU has launched a new campaign designed to attract young people into farming.

  • New markets continue to open for UK wheat

    July 6th 2007

    THE wheat market continues to race forward, with commodity prices and futures persistently increasing and some new markets for the crop getting closer on the horizon.

  • New principal

    July 6th 2007

    LIZ Philip has been appointed the new principal of Askham Bryan College. As the current deputy principal of Selby College, Mrs Philip succeeds Prof Gareth Rees who retires after five years in the post. As a farmer’s daughter, Mrs Philips maintains her interest in farming by keeping a small flock of Mule/Texel cross ewes.

  • Organic milk demand is outstripping supply

    July 6th 2007

    BETTER prices for ‘conventional’ milk, plus increasing grain prices, have seen a reduction in milk producers looking at organic production.

  • Peak District farmers get a helping hand from Prince

    July 6th 2007

    HRH PRINCE Charles has launched two schemes which are aimed at helping Peak District farmers.

  • Pedigree dispersal tops 3,000gns

    July 6th 2007

    A BELGIAN BLUE bull, Dunrod Trix, sold at 3,000gns and pedigree Blonde D’Aquitaines sold to 2,850gns when Edwin and Irene Pearson, Whitby, Yorkshire, dispersed their pedigree Blonde D’Aquitaine cattle and also their pedigree flock of Charollais.

  • Performance equine sale achieves 2,300gns top

    6 July 2007

    A PART-BRED Connemara gelding took the top price of 2,300gns at the first Performance Equine Sale to be held in the North West area.

  • Pig results

    July 6th 2007

    Inter-breed (Judge, W.A. Uglow, Tavistock) Supreme, P.G. Snell and Sons, Sock Doreen 161 (Large Black); reserve, C.D. Vaughan, Vinery Workman 4308 (Welsh)._

  • Plan your bracken control

    July 6th 2007

    UNLESS bracken control treatments taking place this summer are considered as part of a longer term management plan, landowners risk only patchy or temporary control, according to Geoff Hull of United Phosphorus (UPL).

  • Prizes, signatures and awards ... FG at the Royal

    July 6th 2007

    RAIN failed to dampen the spirits of the Farmers Guardian team at this year’s show.

  • Rained off – but would it still have been a wash-out anyway?

    July 6th 2007

    FOLLOWING the split with Haymarket after the 2006 Royal Show, this was the year for RASE to make changes and restore the event to its former glory.

  • Root Crops Disease Control

    July 6th 2007

    Threat from potato blight at its highest level in five years

  • Rouge breed’s supreme sheep title for second year running

    July 6th 2007

    FOR the second year running a Rouge de l’Ouest won the Royal Show supreme sheep title.

  • Routes to profitability exist – milk report

    July 6th 2007

    CHALLENGES remain but the UK dairy industry is making good progress and must continue improving innovation and efficiency – through evolving collaboration through the chain.

  • Royal Norfolk Show

    July 6th 2007

    Belgian Blue bull reigns supreme

  • Royal Norfolk Show results

    July 6th 2007

    DAIRY- Inter-breed (Judge, C.L. Gleed, Berkshire) Supreme, Worstead Farms, Lyngate Ford Babs (Holstein); reserve, N.W. Moore and Sons, Depwade Happy Whisper 6 (Jersey).

  • Royal Show equestrian round-up

    6 July 2007

    OUT of the Blue ridden by Emma Jane Holder outgalloped his rivals to take the show hunter pony championship at the Royal Show – a remarkable achievement for a pony in his first season’s showing.

  • RPA reminds farmers about cross-compliance exemptions

    July 6th 2007

    THE Rural Payments Agency is reminding farmers of the exemptions that exist within cross-compliance rules that could help them during this spate of wet weather.

  • Ruthin’s market gives public a taster of medieval times

    July 6th 2007

    A FASCINATING glimpse into Ruthin’s past, which is hanging on a wall at the Ruthin Livestock Market, proved the catalyst for the latest developments which took place at the town’s produce market last week.

  • Saddleback sow is top pig

    July 6th 2007

    A BRITISH Saddleback sow from Andrew Burwell led the way in the pig ring. Mr Burwell, whose Stoke Doyle herd is based near Oundle, Northamptonshire, bought the three-year-old sow as a six-month-old gilt from Dennis Holston. Mr Burrell has been breeding Saddlebacks for five years and showing for the past three years. Reserve inter-breed champion was a July British Lop gilt from Peter Reeder.

  • Scottish Sheepdog Trials results

    July 6th 2007

    BROADGAIRHILL I (Judge, J. Calvert, Brampton) Open (39 ran) 1, R. Dalziel (Ettrick) Joe, 96; 2, R. Dalziel (Ettrick) Spot, 95; 3, J. Cropper (Deerplay) Dan, 93; 4, J. Cropper (Deerplay) Ben, 90; 5, K. Freeman (Killin) Bill, 87; 6, R. MacPherson (Kirklinton) Roy, 86.

  • Seasonal root lodging

    July 6th 2007

    ROOT lodging has been a fairly widespread problem this season, with Einstein in particular appearing to be affected.

  • Severe crop losses puts price pressure on pea growers

    July 6th 2007

    VINING pea production has been badly hit following further heavy downpours of rain this week, in what continues to be one of the most challenging pea harvests growers have seen for many years.

  • Shakaerator gets rear rollers

    July 6th 2007

    McConnel has fitted two rollers to the rear of a Shakaerator to broaden its cultivating potential.

  • Sheep and shopping

    5 July 2007

    Skipton Town Council held the seventh Skipton Sheep Day on Sunday, July 1.

  • Sheep Results

    July 6th 2007

    Inter-breed (Judge, E. Darke, Kingsbridge, Devon) Supreme, P. Tait (Rouge du l’Ouest); reserve, D.F. Chave (Texel).

  • SHEEPDOG TRIALS DIARY

    5 July 2007

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  • Sheer joy for churchgoers

    July 6th 2007

    A SPECIAL Fleecing Service was held recently at Cawthorne Parish Church, near Barnsley.

  • Show has the perfect ingredients for visitors

    July 6th 2007

    AWARD winning chefs, delicious food, and exciting cookery demonstrations combine to make the perfect ingredients for a visit to this year’s Great Yorkshire Show.

  • Skipton champions

    July 6th 2007

    A pen of five Texel-cross lambs from Richard Caton, Stainforth, sold for the day’s top price of £67 per head (168p/kg) and took the championship rosette at a show and sale of prime lambs at Skipton. They were sold to Mick Etherington, who was buying on behalf of Stuart Price butchers, Crossflatts, Keighley.

  • So Smart takes ridden coloured honours

    6 July 2007

    SARAH Walker and Camilla Neame’s So Smart took the ridden coloured horse championship in this Farmers Guardian-sponsored CHAPS section.

  • Sock Doreen 161 delights owner with top award

    July 6th 2007

    IN very wet, muddy conditions the Large Black sow, Sock Doreen 161, took the pig inter-breed championship for a delighted Martin Snell.

  • St Clears Show

    July 6th 2007

    Jersey triumphs as show beats torrential rain

  • Stallion stands out in strong class

    6 July 2007

    STUNNING grey Welsh Section A stallion Idyllic Entrepreneur took the Cuddy supreme in-hand championship on the final, all but abandoned, day of the Royal Show.

  • Taking local rural control

    July 6th 2007

    A report, which calls for more rural communities to take control of their own local assets and services, criticises politicians, traditional funding streams and planning laws being too urban-focused and failing to understand the differing needs of rural communities.

  • The old Defra team

    July 6th 2007

    FORMER Defra Secretary David Miliband, after only 12 months in the post, has been promoted to Foreign Secretary, becoming, at the age of 41, the youngest person to hold the post since David Owen in 1977. Ironically, he replaces Margaret Beckett, also his predecessor at Defra.

  • The show will go on, vow RASE organisers

    5 July 2007

    THE torrential rain that is creating havoc for farmers around the country claimed its biggest victim this week when the Royal Show was forced to close a day early.

  • Think about pest control after ‘mid-season crash’

    July 6th 2007

    VEGETABLE growers in the south east of England are experiencing a ‘mid-season crash’ in the number of aphids appearing in their crops, due to high numbers of beneficial insects present this year.

  • Thompson and Kyle master course to win league’s Open title

    July 6th 2007

    A TESTING course at Debdon Farm, near Rothbury, on Saturday saw Gordon Thompson and Kyle take the Northumberland League Open title.

  • Three-wheeled slurry tanker

    July 6th 2007

  • Toasting cider success

    July 6th 2007

    CIDER makers are toasting their success after a record number of entries in this year’s Welsh Perry and Cider Championships and signs of renewed consumer interest in the traditional beverage.

  • Trials reveal the pros and cons of woodchip as an alternative bedding

    July 6th 2007

    BARRY ALSTON takes a look at some of the on-going trial work on alternative bedding materials and soil fertility building crops on offer at the latest Aberystwyth-based Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research open day.

  • Tug-of-war showdown

    July 6th 2007

    Qualifiers for the Young Farmers tug-of-war competition took place throughout Sunday, concluding with a showdown in the grand ring where Ashover YFC won the men’s trophy.

  • Tug-of-war showdown

    July 6th 2007

    Qualifiers for the Young Farmers tug-of-war competition took place throughout Sunday, concluding with a showdown in the grand ring where Ashover YFC won the men’s trophy.

  • Use a rainfast fungicide in wet conditions

    July 6th 2007

    POTATO crops are coming under unprecedented blight pressure this season, disease experts are warning.

  • Viable industry essential to national food security

    July 6th 2007

    POLICIES that support a viable farming industry are essential to the well-being of the nation as the risks of global food shortages increase, a farming think-tank is warning.

  • View from the rostrum

    July 6th 2007

    Critical changes to the double tagging regime

  • Virtual beast helps producers hit spec

    July 6th 2007

    AN innovative computer program to help beef farmers improve their cattle selection skills was launched at the Royal Show by the English Beef and Lamb Executive (Eblex).

  • Virus yellows symptoms appearing in beet crops

    July 6th 2007

    CLEMMIE GLEESON and TERESA RUSH report on some unusual developments in sugar beet diseases according to the latest findings from Broom’s Barn scientists.

  • VLA ‘concerned’ over levels of lead poisoning

    July 6th 2007

    AN increased level of lead poisoning incidents this spring and summer – caused mostly by lead acid batteries – has caused concern at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA).

  • Weed control

    July 6th 2007

    PLANNING autumn 2007 weed control strategies? Bayer CropScience in conjunction with Farmers Guardian is hosting a free, one-day weed control conference at the East of England showground, Peterborough, on Thursday, July 12. It will focus on weed control in cereals and cover a range of essential topics.See the panel on p15 for more information. To register go to www.farmersguardian.com/weed focus or call 0845 673 2176.

  • Welsh Sheepdog Trials results

    5 July 2007

    TREMYNYDD FACH T. Open National: Session 1; 1, I.G. Jones (Llangadog) Chip, 17; 2, S. Gibson (Cenarth) Gale, 18; 3, M. Jones (Maesybont) Glen, 21; 4, C. Gordon (Gower) Jess, 24; 5, J. Rees (St Dogmaels) Queen, 27; 6, G. Coombs (Pontypridd) Nap, 31.

  • Wensleydale ewe heads sheep lines

    July 6th 2007

    Charollais and Texel tie for reserve

  • Who’s who in the new-look Defra department

    July 6th 2007

    HILARY Benn, who was Secretary of State for International Development since October 2003, heads up the new team at Defra.

  • Wider spraying intervals mean robust doses are now required

    July 6th 2007

    SPRAY intervals for blight control in potato crops have been extended ‘quite considerably’ due to the wet weather this year, according to SAC potato agronomist, John Sarup, who covers crops in northern England.

  • Wiseman’s sales 5.9pc up

    July 6th 2007

    WISEMAN Dairies shareholders heard chairman Alan Wiseman report to Wednesday’s annual meeting that sales volumes in the first three months of the new financial year had been ‘satisfactory’ and 5.9 per cent ahead of the equivalent period last year.

  • Woodmarsh Sept Storm Jess 8 tops sale where average is high

    July 6th 2007

    THE highest average for 13 years was achieved at the Western Holstein Club’s show and sale at Beeston Castle when 97 Holstein’s sold to average £1,360.

  • Wool price moving in right direction

    5 July 2007

    THE first British Wool sale of the 2007 saw prices significantly up on the equivalent sale last year.

  • YFC competition results

    July 6th 2007

    Club flags 1, Bethany Knipe (Kent Estuary YFC, Cumbria); 2, Sarah Phillips (Sennybridge YFC, Brecknock); 3, Lucy Mycock (Bakewell YFC, Derbyshire).

  • YFC competition results

    July 6th 2007

    Club flags 1, Bethany Knipe (Kent Estuary YFC, Cumbria); 2, Sarah Phillips (Sennybridge YFC, Brecknock); 3, Lucy Mycock (Bakewell YFC, Derbyshire).

  • YFC Royal Show picture gallery

    July 6th 2007

  • YFC Royal Show picture gallery

    July 6th 2007

  • YFC spirits remain high on the competition field despite the bad weather

    July 6th 2007

    TWO young farmers decided to make a big entrance at the Royal Show – arriving in a tractor after travelling 1,564 miles around England and Wales in just four days.

  • YFC spirits remain high on the competition field despite the bad weather

    July 6th 2007

    TWO young farmers decided to make a big entrance at the Royal Show – arriving in a tractor after travelling 1,564 miles around England and Wales in just four days.

  • Yorkshire Show will go on – YAS

    July 6th 2007

    GREAT Yorkshire Show organisers have denied rumours that next week’s show will be cancelled due to bad weather.

  • Young Farmers' Clubs at the Royal Show

    July 6th 2007

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