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2021 PGRO/Syngenta virtual Pulse Roadshows starts today
The annual series of Pulse Roadshow events held by the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) and Syngenta is to take place online this year January because of the ongoing pandemic. The Zoom events provide opportunities to learn more about pulse cropping...
Defra allows neonics on beet seed for 2021
The government is to grant an emergency authorisation for the use of the neonicotinoid seed dressing thiamethoxam (Syngenta’s Cruiser SB) for 2021 sugar beet crops planted in England. This follows a request from British Sugar and the NFU after significant damage to...
De Sangosse helps two local farm charities
De Sangosse, the Cambridgeshire-based specialist in complementary agrochemical chemistry and molluscicides, donated £1,000 split between two local agricultural charities in 2020. The Prospects Trust and YANA will both receive £500 from the company. The Prospects Trust...
WASDE drives further cereal and soya price rises
This week’s downgrading of global crop production and stocks estimates has helped strengthen wheat, corn and soybean values which were already at six-year highs. The January World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), the monthly series of reports form the...
Last call for SFT Poultry Conference
The annual Society of Feed Technologists’ Poultry conference takes place next week in virtual format, with a live Q&A session to be chaired by Anpario technical director Dr Wendy Wakeman. Speakers will address the key feed issues affecting the poultry industry in...
Openfield Group in profit for third year
The Openfield Group of arable marketing businesses has reported a surplus in the year ended June 30th 2020, its third consecutive year of profitability. Figures for subsidiary Openfield Agriculture are not published yet. The farmer-owned Group has reported a pre-tax...
Fire at R&H Hall’s Cork feed store
A major fire at the Port of Cork in southern Ireland has destroyed a quayside animal feed store owned by feed materials importer R&H Hall, a business jointly owned by W&R Barnett and Origin Enterprises. The incident on the morning of Saturday January 9th at...