Author Posts: Sarah Kidby

The NFU has led a 130-mile egg and spoon relay, raising more than £6,000 for the rural mental health charity YANA (You Are Not Alone).

Entries have opened for the 2022 NMR RABDF Gold Cup competition, which looks to highlight dairy businesses for all-around excellence.

Elanco is offering its in-feed de-wormer Flubenvet at a more cost-effective price to help sustain egg producers during a period of unprecedented increase in the cost of production.

New Holland has announced the winner of its 2021 UK and Ireland Dealer of the Year, which celebrates excellence in performance and service quality across its extensive dealer network.

Defra has announced plans to make Direct Payments in two instalments each year to help farmers with cashflow.

Since the Claas Xerion was introduced in 1993, Kaweco has been a partner in slurry technology – besides gooseneck tankers and semi-trailed tankers, it produces its own build-on for the Xerion Saddle Trac. Kaweco explains the product’s key features.

With Brexit, Covid-19 and, more recently, the Russia/Ukraine conflict, British agriculture is being strained more than it has been since the outbreak of World War 2. With volatile input markets and labour shortages causing farmers to question whether high input crops such as potatoes are a viable long-term option, efficiency and adding value to produce will be key to survival; but what can automation and robotics do for you?

Cleaning poultry houses with a foaming detergent is now a well-established and safe method. Evans Vanodine’s global animal health division manager Peter Thompson outlines the benefits of new advances in gel detergent technology.

The Valtra G125 Active is part of a mixed tractor fleet operated by C & R Rowland – based at Goosey, near Farringdon. Chris Milligan runs the business with his father-in-law Robert Rowland and Robert’s brother Colin, and contracting services offered by the team include ploughing, cultivations, spray and fertiliser applications, drilling, and manure spreading. Grassland maintenance is a speciality, and hay and straw bales are made and sold.

Grazing forward crops with sheep is part of the extra flexibility Staffordshire grower, Rob Atkin, is building into his oilseed rape growing at Field Hall Farm, just outside Uttoxeter, to cope with the increasingly uncertain climate.

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Kuhn has announced new and updated products in its arable implement line-up.