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Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland An upcoming webinar on African swine fever (ASF) will share practical things farmers can do to prepare for a possible outbreak. Head of animal health and welfare at the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), Mandy Nevel, and chief...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has announced His Majesty King Charles III as its new patron. The announcement marks decades of continuous royal patronage of veterinary association, following Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s support...

Seem to be getting a lot of these this year. They tend to land and scraper fairly quickly. What do others do when this happens? As kids we used be taken up in them and dad was given a bottle every time they came.

As title. Our forager costs £30 an acre. By the end of the month we will have completed second cut and so have a foraging cost of £60 and acre where the day before he will be finishing a thick first cut and might be charged out a smidge more than my 30 for twice the grass. Wagons straightforward...

Holding political parties to account for their policies is done once every election. We can't sue them in court for mis-selling of goods and services. Nor can we gripe if they lie and cheat to get in and then do FA or play one faction off against another to keep the status quo of doing FA...

Introducing Laying Hen Housing for Health and Welfare grants Written by The Team Credit: Matt Cartney. Crown Copyright. Next month, a new grant for hen housing will be available to laying hen and pullet farmers in England with flocks of 1,000 birds or more. We've just published the guidance...

I am also a child from a rural area in China, and I used to be very poor. I had very little land to cultivate. Our family of four had only 7,175 feet of land. Very little. We farmers were forced to go out to work to barely make ends meet. I would like to know how much arable land you farmers in...

Early morning tv news, reported that the UK had the wettest period (winter/spring), because of which less crops could be planted , so as the news report stated, "the UK has to rely on more imports of food", well thats hard to believe? or took alot of "intelligent" people to come to that...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced £4 million in funding for a new research and containment facility to tackle emerging threats to tree health. The new facility will be at the UK’s Forest Research Alice...

What’s the best grass seed mix for fattening lambs on and getting early bite in the spring for lambing cheers daz

Just had a text from APHA congurming BSE found in Ayrshire Stand by for a bumpy ride

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Dairy suckler farmers and practising vets should not rule out the possibility of Johne’s disease impacting on weanling cattle that are scouring and losing weight over a consistent period of time. This follows the confirmation by Agri-Food and...

Well they are aren’t they? Thwarting attempts by the democratically elected government to discourage illegal immigration. Throttling the economy with complex and highly restrictive planning processes. You can’t even divert a public footpath for health and safety reasons with any guarantee of...

Written by Claire Sammon from Agriland A UK-wide plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been welcomed by the Minister of Health of Northern Ireland, Robin Swann and the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir MLA. The five-year National Action Plan...

Predicted that within 5 years new cars won't be offered with a manual gearbox. Change driven by rise (& legislation) of EVs but also by new drivers opting to learn only on automatics. Be a bit sad IMO as it's a pleasure & a skill to match gear changes to revs but with flappy paddles, I have...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A combined effort is required to resolve a looming veterinary medicines problem that is about to impact in Northern Ireland. This is the view of Tom Elliott, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) spokesperson for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs...

a 4 acre section of ancient woodland in Kent called hoads wood, also a sssi, was illegally felled last year, and used as an illegal waste dump. at its height 20 to 30 truck loads per day were dumped, with no licences at all. Locals contacted police, who said it was a civil matter. They then...

We heard today that some one we know is lucky to be alive after Sepsis infection while on holiday in the US. It’s obviously an extremely dangerous infection ( or whatever its term). Is it very common in the 21st century?

Dad worked on farms in the 1950's-1970's. He bought his first house in about 1976 when no longer working on farms so at least he managed to get a foothold outside of tied cottages. Always a mixed blessing.

No T0 on anything this year and it does seem to have done any harm (touches wood). Yes the odd patch of yellow rust (something we wouldn’t normally see at all) but de minimus areas and not anything to worry about. A one off season or a waste of time?