Farmers Guardian
November 11th 2005

  • Better times ahead for beef industry

    November 11th 2005

    BEEF - a six-page special feature in this week's Farmers Guardian

  • Big three commitment to British red meat industry: Barrs fair value warning

    November 11th 2005

    Tom Levitt reports from the Red Meat Industry Forum conference in London.

  • Bull sales important for Argentinas leading pedigree breeder

    November 11th 2005

    Juan Jose Felissia is one of Argentina’s leading pedigree Holstein breeders and is milking around 120 cows on 55ha at Rafaela in Santa Fe province.

  • Concern over cost of buffer strips to farming industry

    November 11th 2005

    The estimated cost of buffer strips to the industry as a whole might be around £1.6 million, according to report author and secretary to the Commission, Tom Eddy.

  • Creatures & Comforts

    November 11th 2005

    Beautiful scenery provides the backdrop for a modern livestock-based unit and the perfect setting for luxury holiday cottages at Nailey Farm.

  • Flying start for new Cirencester market

    November 11th 2005

    The new Cirencester Market received an overwhelming response on its first day of business. Trailers and lorries were queuing to get in as many travelled to the site at Fosse Farm, Driffield, to check out the new under-cover market.

  • Fuel crops must be as good as food

    November 11th 2005

    The yield and quality of oilseed rape in the UK needs to be raised if its potential for use in a one million tonne a year biodiesel market (based on 5 per cent inclusion rate) is to be maximised.

  • Fundamental shake-up of levy bodies

    November 11th 2005

    A fundamental shake-up of the way levy bodies operate, intended to make them more relevant to the 21st century, was due to be unveiled today (November 9th)

  • Get maps in or lose Single Payment farmers warned

    November 11th 2005

    Just under 8,000 farmers in England have been warned they could lose their Single Payments unless they rapidly provide maps for additional parcels of land on their applications.

  • Global dairying Argentina emerges

    November 11th 2005

    Argentina’s roller-coaster economy is presently on an upward swing and its currency value is very much export favourable. Milk volume is rising and increasingly being produced to EU standards. Production costs on its grass based, no-housing systems are low and producers are currently enjoying a margin of fractionally under one third of the milk price. Could this be a sleeping giant about to wake-up to the rising world demand for dairy products?

  • Import threat hangs over trade talks

    November 11th 2005

    British farmers will face lower prices and a greater threat from imports if agreement is reached in vital World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong next month, according to the NFU.

  • Older beef cattle - Your questions answered

    November 11th 2005

    On Monday (November 7th) the Over-Thirty Month Scheme was replaced with a BSE testing regime and aged cattle entered the food chain for the first time in nearly 10 years. Joanne Pugh answers some of the questions now facing beef farmers with aged cattle.

  • ReTFO should be just the start NFU

    November 11th 2005

    A renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (ReTFO) will not be enough on its own to stimulate a UK biofuels industry, the NFU has warned.

  • Sugar tonnage up on last year

    November 11th 2005

    British Sugar estimates that an average adjusted tonnage of 66-67t/ha could be on the cards from the nation’s 145,000ha crop at the end of the campaign.

  • The biggest player

    November 11th 2005

    Some Argentineans think big – 12,000 cows for example.

  • Tick control initiative by Heather Trust is curbing disease risk

    November 11th 2005

    Tick populations in areas of unmanaged moorland are soaring but a number of co-operatives are looking at controlling it.

  • Tomato soup and croutons

    November 11th 2005

    “Adding the sweet potato to the soup produces a nice flavour and texture,” says Rachel Cowper of St Johns in The Vale, Cumbria, who provided this recipe.

  • Welfare and quality are key to college pig unit relaunch

    November 11th 2005

    Bishop Burton College, East Yorkshire, is re-launching its pig enterprise as a high welfare unit producing premium quality meat to sell to the top end of the market – and possibly in its own farm shop.