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Booked in for our inspection next week: Is there anything new? Anything that inspectors seem to be hot on this time round?

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF For six decades, blue tractors have been built in Basildon at a plant that’s evolved and undergone significant change to match the modern requirements of farming. CPM was invited to New Holland’s 60th birthday tour. By Martin Rickatson...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF Hutchinsons’ has made a substantial investment in its digital offering to provide an all-in-one farm management system which promises to deliver the goods for UK agriculture. CPM headed to London to hear more about the Omnia EasyPlan...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland Farmer Derek Dyer contaminated a private water supply and polluted a stream after a slurry store built from farmyard manure collapsed. In a case brought by the Environment Agency, Dyer, aged 74, of Crawley Farm, Yarcombe near Honiton, received a community...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Eastfield private estate in the Scottish Borders sits on a 183ac site and has entered the market for offers over £2,750,000. The estate features a five-bedroom farmhouse, three-bedroom secondary house and three additional cottages. The estate...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland The quality of a company’s product emerging from its factory will depend on several factors, and cost is not always the major item. What is most important, is the desire to make something that will work as it should, and for a long period of time...

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Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Lidl GB has become the first retailer to sign a contract with Pembrokeshire Creamery to sell milk produced and bottled in Wales. From June 1, 2024, all Lidl own-brand milk sold in its Welsh stores will have been produced on Welsh farms and...

We are in a position of getting a fair bit of hot water periodically from a modest but successful solar thermal set up, Generating it is easy from our panel In the sun of a day but storing overnight with minimal loss for maybe a grey er day next morning is the challenge. How do you insulate...

It looks like I have ended up with a couple ram lambs. They are 7wks old and now showing. At what point will they become a problem with their sisters and mothers?

Hi. looking at replacing 5 old sheds on a farm. each shed is approx 6m wide. 31m in total width for all 5. They are 30m long. Needs to be replaced due to issues with leaking water and issues with rats. What would a suitable replacement be. Would be used as tempoary grainstore in summer and store...

Hi. looking at replacing 5 old sheds on a farm. each shed is approx 6m wide. 31m in total width for all 5. They are 30m long. Needs to be replaced due to issues with leaking water and issues with rats. What would a suitable replacement be. Would be used as tempoary grainstore in summer and store...

RABDF Down to Earth, the regenerative livestock farming event, will be hosted at a housed cow unit for the second year in a row; cows milked 3x per day, I understand it to be "high input, high output". Not knocking confinement systems, but can this system really be regenerative? I believe that...

This will be my first year selling lambs for market, not a massive amount for sale either. Living in the carmarthen area what are my options other than marts?

With huge apologies to all farmers for the massively naive nature of this post, my wife and I are exploring buying (and farming) a livestock farm. I have the financial resources but no experience and I don't know any farmers. Any suggestions of where to go to get experience or any good courses...

I think most will agree that last winter was pretty hard on sheep, and overall the grass growth this spring is well behind where it should be. Thankfully the sheep trade has remained buoyant with tight numbers, and overall the feed bills haven’t been so high due to carry over from good yields...

A first event in Scotland. At our Farmer Focus writer Neil White's farm in Scotland. Register for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covering-soils-scotland-hosted-by-neil-white-tickets-888349095057 Date and time Wed, 22 May 2024 10:00 - 15:30 BST Location Greenknowe Farm Cottages, Duns...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has said it welcomes the “long awaited” support from the Welsh government for on-farm investment. Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies today (Monday, April 29) announced a...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Welsh cabinet secretary for climate change and rural affairs has today (Monday, April 29) announced £20 million for two funding schemes to support investment on farm infrastructure. Huw Irranca-Davies said the funding will help build...

https://www.agindustries.org.uk/static/f3ed730f-d263-4ae4-b6ca0858e50c2a21/Assessment-of-AIC-gatekeeper-in-the-UK-March-2022-presentation.pdf think this shows 2 things 1) they will make it as hard as possible (which we already know) 2) they are concerned about competition law 🤔