Beef
Cattle trade in Britain on downwards trajectory
Following the stability over the holiday period, in the first full week of trading this year the cattle trade in...
UK
Beef
Poland now the third largest beef exporter to UK, after Ireland and the Netherlands
Polish beef exports for first nine months of 2015 were up 23% on the year, according to AHDB, the English...
Beef
Beef exports to UK down 18% on October 2014
Shipments of beef to the UK were back 18% in October 2015 compared to the same month in 2014, according to...
Arable
UK set to record fourth biggest wheat harvest on record
Defra’s final crop production and yield figures have revealed a boost in UK wheat production, compared with estimates made in...
Machinery
Vintage Ferguson machinery collection sells for over €700,000
The world’s most complete collection of Ferguson machinery went under the hammer on November 14 in the UK and sold for...
Beef
76% of the UK's beef imports are from Ireland
Some 76% of beef imports to the UK in the first eight months of the year came from the Republic...
Sheep
UK police use sheep line-up to reunite farmers with their flock!
Some 14 sheep farmers in England have been reunited with their sheep that were stolen between 2010 and 2013 after...
World News
Anthrax disease responsible for death of cow in the UK
An isolated case of anthrax disease in a cow has been confirmed at a farm in Wiltshire in the UK...
Dairy
Arla UK holds November milk price
Arla Foods UK has held its on-account milk price for November at 23.04p/L. Arla had increased its October milk price...
Beef
Beef farmers 'determined to exploit weight gain' but ignore UK supermarket specs
The push by Irish farmers and farming organisations to increase both the age at slaughter and carcass weights could be...
World News
Non-farmers are buying more land than farmers in the UK
Non-farmer buyers have overtaken farmers as the main type of buyer of farmland in the UK, according to Savills. It...
Dairy
Tesco to increase number of British dairy farmers on direct contracts
Tesco UK has announced that it will increase the number of farmers on direct contracts by a quarter by spring...
Beef
Poor milk price drives UK cow slaughterings up 13.8% in July
The numbers of cull cows coming to slaughter in the UK in July of this year has increased by 13.8%...
Dairy
UK milk production down 1.1% year-on-year
UK milk production for the month of July is down 1.1% on the same month in 2014, according to provisional...
Agri-Business
UK supermarket introduces more measures to support dairy farmers
UK dairy farmers are being further supported by supermarket chain Morrisons as it announced that it will increase the amount...
Arable
Video: UK farmer smashes world wheat yield record with 16t/ha
A farmer in the UK has broken the world record for harvesting the highest-yielding wheat crop ever recorded after he...
Rural Life
Brian May's trust to challenge UK badger culling trials
Former guitarist with rock band Queen – Brian May – is to challenge the lawfulness of UK badger cull licences,...
Rural Life
Farmer gets engaged at local show using champion cow
Irish farmers take note! As it’s show season and your hard work for the year could pay off at your...
