Gong for MF’s mid-range tractor The Massey Ferguson MF 6700 S Stage V series has won the Agritechnica Machine of the Year Award in the mid-power tractor category.... [more] www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz : 2019-12-05 15:08:00
Agricultural revolution – is big data the next tractor? Ben Williams, AHDB senior knowledge transfer manager, asks whether big data will become as important to agriculture as the tractor Like the many hyped revolutions that ha... [more] www.pig-world.co.uk : 2019-12-05 07:00:25
Factory Farming Threatening Our Planet Last week the BBC’s documentary Meat: A Threat to Our Planet included presenter Liz Bonnin hoisting herself up a rope into one of the heights of the Amazon rainforest t... [more] www.ciwf.org.uk : 2019-12-04 11:07:30
Illegal vaccines targeted by Chinese authorities Pig farms found using illegal vaccines will be punished under China’s intensified efforts to arrest its African swine fever crisis. Bloomberg reported that homemade, ex... [more] www.pig-world.co.uk : 2019-12-03 17:00:11
84 supply chain organisations issue soya warnings to Brazil A total of 80 organisations spanning the EU food supply chain, including the NPA have warned that soya imports from Brazil will be put at risk if a 13-year agreement on r... [more] www.pig-world.co.uk : 2019-12-03 13:22:39
Future of SRUC Farms Following a national recruitment exercise, SAC Consulting’s Georgie Baikie is moving to a new role to manage all farming operations across Scotland’s Rural College.... [more] www.sruc.ac.uk : 2019-12-02 15:21:00
Ramming home the importance of farm computers For farmers forking out large amounts of money for equipment such as tractors, it is often easy to forget the importance of investing in another vital piece of technology... [more] www.sruc.ac.uk : 2019-12-02 11:18:00
Organic/Conventional Global/Local – Tom Knowles, Chico Rice - Farm To Table Talk
Can a farmer be both a producer of a global commodity and organic wiwth local branded product available at the Farmers Market and on-line? The answer is Yes when ... [more] farmtotabletalk.com : 2019-11-29 22:31:51
The Death Ships Last Sunday (24th November), many of you will know that the livestock cargo ship, the QUEEN HIND with 14,600 sheep on board and heading for Saudi Arabia, developed a list... [more] www.ciwf.org.uk : 2019-11-28 15:00:29
UK farming unions respond to BBC meat documentary The four UK farming union presidents have said that last night’s BBC documentary, Meat: a threat to our planet?, shows why food standards must be upheld in future trad... [more] www.pig-world.co.uk : 2019-11-26 15:30:36
Japan gears up for pig culls to prevent African swine fever Japan’s agriculture ministry has announced it will seek to allow pig culls as a preventive measure against African swine fever, which is currently not permitted by the ... [more] www.pig-world.co.uk : 2019-11-26 12:00:54
Union calls for greater investment in Northern Ireland’s pig industry The Ulster Farmers’ Union has called for greater investment in the future of the Northern Ireland pig industry. This call came after the UFU and the College of Agricult... [more] www.pig-world.co.uk : 2019-11-25 10:00:59
