Tilbury ships oilseeds direct to ADM Erith
UK oilseed crusher ADM Erith is now receiving imported rapeseed via the River Thames from the Port of Tilbury, which saves the need for road transport. The two businesses have launched a twice-daily coastal barge operation to deliver oilseed rape from the port’s grain...
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...
Christine Tacon to chair Red Tractor Assurance
Christine Tacon CBE is the new chair of Assured Food Standards, the not-for-profit company owned by the farming unions, AHDB, Dairy UK and the British Retail Consortium, that operates the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. She replaces Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe who resigned...
Surprise increase in winter wild oat populations
Wild oat populations appear to be increasing across the UK, warns herbicide manufacturer Life Scientific. Growers are burying less seed as they switch to more min-till and direct drilling techniques, while a reduction in ALS herbicide chemistry usage - for fear of...
New look for nabim and UK wheat Groups
The flour millers’ trade body nabim - The National Association of British & Irish Millers – has rebranded itself as UK Flour Millers in a move it says is driven by the UK’s departure from the EU, domestic devolution and the Covid pandemic. The change, the first since...
Red Tractor consults on future assurance standards
Assured Food Standards has launched a consultation over the future shape of its Red Tractor farm assurance standards across the scheme’s six sectors - beef and lamb; combinable crops and sugar beet; dairy; fresh produce; pigs; and poultry. The proposed changes have...