Even though Cinco de Mayo isn’t an official holiday it doesn’t mean we can’t be reminded to avail ourselves of our fave Mexican (and Tex-Mex) indulgences.
Farmers Weekly Changes to diets, improvements in genetics and health, and rethinking the use of manure and poultry litter all have potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions in the poultry sector come largely as a result of feed production, with the manufacture, handling and t…
Farmers Weekly Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Andrew Robinson, partner and head of agriculture, Armstrong Watson advises on stock valuation on disposal of herd or flock. Q. My wife and I have traded fo…
Farmers Weekly Neil Parish, the chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee (Efra), has been named as the Conservative MP accused of watching pornography in the House of Commons. The MP for Tiverton and Honiton has referred himself for investigation, the Conservatives said. A party…
Farmers Weekly Essex farmer and Farmers Weekly Opinion writer Guy Smith has stepped down from his role at Red Tractor, citing personal reasons. The former NFU deputy president, from St Osyth, was appointed as combinable crops and sugar beet sector chairman for the farm assurance marque in July 2020….
Farmers Weekly Dairy farmers supplying Muller on direct contracts and who meet the conditions of its Advantage programme will receive a farmgate milk price of 41.5p/litre from 1 June. This marks a 1.5p/litre rise for a standard liquid litre of 4% butterfat and 3.3% protein and includes a 1p/litre Ad…
A variation on our favorite Mexican cocktail, this long margarita includes tequila, Cointreau, and lime soda.
Farmers Weekly The NFU has called for government to invest and work with British farmers to help maximise their red meat exports in an increasingly competitive trading environment. The NFU Red Meat Export Strategy identifies a raft of recommendations to help the British livestock sector unlock the p…
Farmers Weekly In 2021, Lanarkshire-based engineer Colin Taylor revealed an ingenious grassland spot-spraying system that can identify weeds in grassland and treat them with a targeted dose of chemical. Just like high-end setups from the likes of Bilberry and Carbon Bee, his Rumex device uses artifi…
Farmers Weekly David Fuller is working his two Agrifac sprayers hard and combined with the latest spraying tech, four weather stations and a Basis-qualified team, he is managing to stay on top of wheat disease. Hitting the key growth stages is no mean feat given that McGregor Farms manages 1,700ha o…