Duties on certain cereals imported into the EU have been suspended in a bid to ease rising feed grain prices
Archive | February, 2011
New organic store for eastern growers
Organic farmers in East Anglia have access to new central grain storage after Yaregrain achieved organic certification for its store at Cantley in Norfolk
Cattle numbers fall
The total number of cattle in Britain is continuing to decline, but there are signs of encouragement, according to latest BCMS data
Crop management on iPhone
Farmers weekly has joined forces with crop protection giant BASF to create a special agronomy tool for farmers with Apple iPhones. The BASF/ Farmers Weekly Mobile GAI iPhone app will help growers make an instant judgement of oilseed rape crops’ Green Area Index, allowing them to make fertiliser and fungicide decisions in the field. With [...]
Wiseman edges ahead of non-aligned milk prices
Robert Wiseman Dairies is the latest milk buyer to increase the price it pays dairy farmers. Wiseman is to increase its standard-litre farmgate milk price by 1p/litre to 26.72p/litre from 1 April, placing it at the head of the field on contracts not aligned to majr retailers. The move follows a 1p/litre increase for 1 [...]
Scots wind farm rents rising
It seems the number of new sites suitable for large-scale wind farms in Scotland could be diminishing, forcing up rents in response
Pea and bean prices pulled higher by wheat
Buoyant wheat and oilseed markets have pulled pea and bean prices even higher over recent weeks
Soft commodities remain fair game for speculators?
It looks as though attempts to regulate speculator activity in soft commodity futures may have been thwarted before they had really begun. Brussells recently announed it wass to look carefully at investment funds’ activities in futures markets for soft commodities like wheat, which critics say contributes to artificial market volatility and causes food price spikes. [...]
2 Sisters invests £30m in processing facility
As part of its strategy for growth, 2 Sisters Food Group is spending £30m to create a state-of-the-art food processing facility on an industrial estate in Thetford, Norfolk.
Ensus tackles odour problems
The Ensus bioethanol plant on Teesside is to temporarily shut down at the end of April as operators resolve ongoing odour problems