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Top wool award for regional manager
8:49am Friday 12th March 2010
David Jones, who spent 25 years as Regional Manager with the British Wool Marketing Board, has been awarded the 2010 George Hedley Memorial Award.
Wool sales cancelled
10:50am Thursday 11th March 2010
The vigorous demand for wool, coupled with limited supply, which has sent prices to 113p a kilo in recent weeks, has led to the cancellation of 2 of the last 6 sales of the selling year at the British Wool Marketing Board’s Headquarters at Bradford.
Student studying organic farming seeks help from south west farmers
9:00am Thursday 11th March 2010
Emilia Strazzanti is a fourth year student a Bournemouth University and is conducting research on organic farming.
Delays anger NFU
4:20pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
PRODUCER organisations (POs) and their members are rapidly losing patience over the time being taken by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to assess whether POs comply with new criteria following an EU court ruling last September, the NFU has warned.
Farming legend takes top spot
4:27pm Wednesday 10th March 2010
ONE of the very few farmers who can genuinely be described as a legend in his own lifetime, Albert Cook, is the 2010 president of the Devon County Agricultural Association.
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