Finally the Olympics are over, weren't they amazing? Meanwhile the harvest continues around the storms. Much of the wheat I have seen looks pretty good, however some of the barley looks quite poor and I have seen a lot of disease in it, especial yellow barley dwarf virus. I have only seen one really good field of forage maize, the rest is patchy at best.
Across the pond in the US Midwest the heat has really been on the US Ag Department...
According to the Farmers Weekly, the NFU have dismissed fears that a badger cull in England could wipe out whole populations of badger.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by the Labour Party laid bare Natural England's intial concerns that local extinctions of badger in some areas "cannot be ruled out".
In correspondence during 2010, officials from the government's statutory wildlife advice group told ministers...
Farmers have been able to see if anaerobic digestion (AD) is the right option for them at The Energy Now Expo in Malvern this week.
The free service from Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) will give farmers, growers and land managers a better understanding of what is involved, giving them the confidence to invest the time and money needed to develop a project proposal for funding.
...A report in the Farmers Guardian has confirmed that 2011 was the driest 12 months in England and Wales for 90 years.
The Environment Agency said Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and West Norfolk were still in drought, even though Wales and Scotland had received average rainfall.
Farmers in Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, East Sussex and Kent were also...
Belton Cheese, based in Whitchurch Shropshire, has seen sales to the United States grow by 39% compared with last year, according to the Farmers Guardian.
According to sales manager, Phil Jones, it is the local provenance which is one of the primary reasons for the brand's success. The firm has been promoting its range at North America's largest speciality food and beverage event, the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco...
Farmers and landowners affected by the High Speed Two (HS2) rail line from London to the Midlands and North are to be offered an initial payment of £1,000 for access to allow contractors to enter private land in the initial stages of the route development.
The CLA and NFU have reached an agreement with HS2 covering a voluntary early access licence to carry out environmental impact assessments related to the rail line....
According to the Farmers Weekly, farm minister Jim Paice, has announced that badger cull pilot schemes will take place in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset.
Farmers from the areas can now apply for culling licences to tackle the devastating impact of bovine TB, he said.
Mr Paice made the announcement in a written ministerial statement on Thursday (19 January).
The two areas in West...
According to the Farmer Guardian more than 200 people turned out to support a farmer who is refusing to sell his land for the development of a new generation nuclear power station.
Dairy farmer Richard Jones and his family has farmed at Caerdegog, near Llanfechell, for 300 years and says losing 65 acres of the farm’s best agricultural land plus another 20 acres of rented ground would make the holding unviable.
Developers,...
According to the Farmers Guardian the National Beef Association has welcomed the appointment of Professor Christopher Wathes to oversee the two English pilot badger culls.
Farming Minister Jim Paice announced that Prof Wathes had been appointed as chairman of the independent panel of experts that will oversee the pilots when he unveiled their location – West Somerset and West Gloucestershire – last week.
Prof Wathes is...
A report in the Farmers Guardian says that DEFRA Ministers are set to unveil the broad location of the two English pilot badger cull areas today.
The areas were selected by Ministers from a shortlist of ‘about eight’ submitted by the NFU and National Beef Association.
The groups of farmers in these areas, which demonstrated good levels of farmer support and the presence of boundaries to limit the negative effects of culling...
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