Free workshops in south west

Farmers and food producers across the South West are invited to get the low-down on how they can supply the public sector in a series of free workshops taking place later this month.

Search is on for countryside champion

A search has been launched across the South West to find people who have given their lives to managing and caring for the countryside and the traditional sports which provide the incentive for a raft of rural management programmes.

Smell in the air - more to come says NFU

The foul smell wafting over large parts of London and the South East this eweekend is a taste of things to come if the Government presses ahead with its ill-conceived plan to ban slurry spreading during the winter, the NFU has warned.

First festival of its type in Wiltshire

DOWN in deepest Wiltshire, the brainchild of three members of the Wiltshire Support Group and council members - Tony Chambers, Pat Holloway and newly co-opted, Ken Cooper, is taking off at a rate which has exceeded even their most optimistic expectations!

	Cornish new potatoes on the shelves now
	Co-operative customers in Cornwall will today be the first in the country to pick up new season Cornish potatoes from their local stores.

CLA members throw down gauntlet

CLA members in the South West are to throw down the gauntlet to public sector purchasers and challenge them to take a new look at the origins of the food they buy.

Call for extra protecton for rare breeds

In the wake of DEFRA's recently announced strategy for bluetongue vaccination, Liberal Democrat and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming Tim Farron MP has today written to Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for DEFRA, to call for extra protection for rare breeds of livestock.

Biofuels - NFU take decision

The NFU has taken the opportunity of national Biofuels Day to draw a clear distinction between biofuels produced sustainably to what it calls "The British Model" that yield genuine greenhouse gas savings, and biofuels produced elsewhere in the world with fewer environmental safeguards.

Takeover of mineral company

The Denis Brinicombe Group has acquired the Scottish based mineral nutrition company Lachlan MacGregor Feeds (formerly trading as Marr & MacGregor Feeds).

Challenging times for livestock

The NFU is challenging the increasingly fashionable view that livestock farming is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and warning that using climate change as an argument to discourage people from eating milk and meat could be environmentally counter-productive.

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