October 9, 2008
£100,000 committed to bees
The major stakeholders in the beekeeping industry in the UK have met to discuss the crisis of the declining bee population.
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October 8, 2008
NFU win Defra help for flood hit farmers as harves
Farmers and growers battling to get in crops from saturated fields have been given a life line after Defra announced a further temporary suspension of the rules governing the work while land is wet.
October 8, 2008
Nice weather for geese!
The wet August may have been a washout for most people – but it was a big hit with geese. Some regions had three times the average rainfall — and less than half the average…
October 8, 2008
Bumper global harvest
A bumper global harvest could help make up the shortfall in UK production after the wettest August on record brought the domestic harvest to a near standstill.
October 7, 2008
NFU makes rallying call to growers
The vice chairman of the NFU board for horticulture will be urging growers to write to their MEPs following this week's joint NFU/HDC pesticide conference in North Yorkshire.
October 7, 2008
Poor take-up of BT vaccination
Bluetongue vaccine uptake has been as low as 50% in the livestock heartlands of South West and western England – despite a campaign urging producers to vaccinate animals, it is claimed.
October 7, 2008
Norfolk show proves a winner
Two thousand people flocked to Sheringham Park in Norfolk for a special event dedicated to smallholding.
October 7, 2008
Red tape strangling livestock keepers’
People are leaving the agricultural industry in droves because of the lack of income and the continued threat of new and unnecessary regulations such as electronic identification (EID), according to the National Sheep Association.
September 10, 2008
Bird numbers will still drop’
Despite a new Government initiative to help farmland birds, their numbers will continue to drop this year, says the RSPB.
September 9, 2008
CS introduces Smallholding Sam cartoon
Country Smallholding has just launched a great new cartoon, Smallholding Sam.
September 9, 2008
High cost of rural broadband
SEPTEMBER 9, 2008: The cost of connecting rural Britain to superfast fibre-based broadbandwill far exceed costs in urban areas, say government advisers.
