Farmers Guardian
March 10th 2006

  • A head for hats

    March 10th 2006

    With the Cheltenham Festival, the Grand National Meeting at Aintree and a summer of Flat racing’s most glamorous fixtures fast approaching, Angela Calvert spoke to a farmer’s wife from Nottinghamshire who has successfully switched horses for hats as her main business.

  • 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.

  • Agrotron K100

    March 10th 2006

    Launched at the end of last year the Agrotron K series is pretty much new from the ground up. Mervyn Bailey gets a flavour of what the Agrotron K100 is like to live with.

  • Axle provides active steering

    March 10th 2006

    Strautmann has introduced a trindem axle for the Giga Vitesse and Giga Vitesse Plus self-loading forage wagons. Each of the six wheels is independently mounted with hydraulic suspension.

  • Border Belgian Blue Club calf show at Carlisle

    10 March 2006

    The Border Belgian Blue Club staged their seventh annual open calf show at Borderway Mart, Carlisle, with judge, John Hall, Dalston, Cumbria, awarding the male and overall championship to B.K. Ryder, Moffat. Annanwater Antonio was a May 2005 son of Serum D’Anloy and out of Springfield Tinga.

  • Boxing clever is the Natural solution to subsidy changes

    March 10th 2006

    There have been dramatic changes at Huish Farm in North Devon this year. Beef farmer Mark Stevens has reduced his herd by one-third and launched the Natural Beef Company, a rapidly expanding box scheme.

  • Broadening the appeal of top Holstein event

    March 10th 2006

    The 2006 National Holstein Show, which is being media partnered by Farmers Guardian, takes place at Bingley Hall, Stafford County Showground, on April 10 and 11. For further information visit the website www.holstein-uk.org.

  • Bumper show and sale at Bentham

    10 March 2006

    It was a bumper show and sale at Bentham mart, Lancashire, on Tuesday with over 700 store cattle forward.

  • Butchers to combat the competition

    March 10th 2006

    More than 80 independent butchers and retailers met in Cornwall to discuss the future success of the meat industry in the face of increasing competition from supermarkets.

  • Cypermethrin dip decision attacked by BVA and NFU

    March 10th 2006

    The British Veterinary Association has written to the Veterinary Medicines Directorate expressing concern at the withdrawal of cypermethrin-based sheep dips without consultation with stakeholders.

  • Delaying T1 spray can be beneficial

    March 10th 2006

    Slightly delaying the T1 spray timing on winter wheat can be beneficial, according to Dr Judith Turner, principal plant pathologist, Central Science Laboratory, York.

  • Demand increases for naturally polled stock

    March 10th 2006

    Horned or not? Barry Alston reports from a Welsh border hill farm backing its views with an export deal for semen.

  • EU importers ready to welcome back UK beef

    March 10th 2006

    First beef and live cattle exports could leave at the end of April or early May

  • EU sugar quota to be cut by 2.5m tonnes

    March 10th 2006

    European Union sugar quota will be cut by 2.5 million tonnes (13.6 per cent) for the 2006/07 cropping year, it was agreed this week.

  • Farm incomes across Wales to suffer a fall

    March 10th 2006

    Farm incomes across Wales have been predicted to fall by 2 per cent this year – following a 10 per cent drop in 2004-2005 and highlighting the serious effects of ever-increasing input costs.

  • Fears over unvalidated entitlement statements sent out to farmers

    March 10th 2006

    Two-thirds of the entitlement statements sent to farmers since February 14 are unvalidated.

  • Fungicide help for carrot growers

    March 10th 2006

    A new fungicide for carrot growers has been approved ready for this season, to provide improved control of alternaria and powdery mildew. Amistar Top combines the well-proven disease prevention of azoxystrobin, with the curative and protectant properties of difenoconazole.

  • Kremers TB victory raises testing doubts

    March 10th 2006

    Serious concerns have been raised about the integrity of bovine TB tests after Defra was forced to admit mistakes had been made in a high profile case.

  • New scrapie findings raise questions on NSP

    March 10th 2006

    Questions have been raised about the Government’s scrapie eradication policy after the discovery of a newly identified strain of scrapie.

  • Potato planting, a skilled job on-farm

    March 10th 2006

    Specialist trainer David Turner believes planting potatoes and applying inputs correctly is one of the most skilled jobs on the farm.

  • Prices warm up Chelford Belgian Blues

    10 March 2006

    Sub-zero temperatures and snow did nothing to deter showmen and cattle breeders from all corners of the UK travelling to Chelford Agricultural Centre, Cheshire, for the British Belgian Blue Cattle Society’s show and sale.

  • Prospectus to go out on ferry co-op venture

    March 10th 2006

    A prospectus setting out the aims and membership details of the new Anglo European Farmers Co-operative is to be sent to every dairy farmer in the country with the latest Milk Development Council mailing.

  • Scholars to probe variety of topics

    March 10th 2006

    Twenty-two new Nuffield Farming Scholarship award winners have been announced for 2006.

  • Seed treatments for rhizoctonia can make significant contribution to marketable yield of crops

    March 10th 2006

    Bayer's Jane Heatherington told participants that the effects of rhizoctonia are not just cosmetic and seed treatments can make an equally significant contribution to marketable yield in crops for processing.

  • Seeking to make its name with specialist help

    March 10th 2006

    Although JF has been marketing diet feeders in the UK for five years it has never been one of the names at the fore. But it is now hoping to change that with the appointment of diet feeder specialist John Molton and placing more emphasis on its vertical VM range.

  • Smithfield demise proves no surprise

    March 10th 2006

    While many may be mourning the cancellation of this year’s Royal Smithfield Show, few can claim to be entirely surprised about last week’s news.

  • Spot seed key to calibrate applicator

    March 10th 2006

    If you have not got your spot speed – or selected level of throughput – you cannot calibrate your applicator.

  • Unique bonus scheme for beef farmers

    March 10th 2006

    A unique bonus scheme for beef farmers was launched this week by BPS (Beef Production Systems) and UK meat processor St Merryn Foods.

  • Vary calibration with potentiometer

    March 10th 2006

    When applying powder product on the planter, calibration is varied by adjusting a small potentiometer inside the control box, said David Turner.

  • Warming Lentil Soup

    March 10th 2006

    This recipe for a tasty lentil soup is from Hazel Rose, of Fort William, Inverness-shire. It can be served with croutons and/or natural yoghurt.

  • Wood chip boiler first at North of England hotel

    March 10th 2006

    Swinton Park, the luxury castle hotel in the Yorkshire Dales owned by the Cunliffe-Lister family, is due to fire up its wood chip boiler for the first time next week.

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