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Frontier donates £5k for Mental Health Awareness Week
Frontier Agriculture has made a corporate donation to this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week as the Covid-19 restrictions prevent its usual company-wide fundraising effort. Mental Health Awareness Week (#MHAW20) took place from May 18th – 24th 2020 – this is the...
Industry calls for clearer post-EU trade policy detail
This week has seen UK trade policy post EU withdrawal move forward, with the second reading of the government’s Trade Bill and a new import tariff schedule. Industry representatives are concerned at the lack of detail with the EU transition set to end in seven months....
EU green policies need animal agriculture, says FEFAC
The European Commission has published broad policy objectives to reduce the environmental impact of food production by 2030, including targets for inputs reductions. While supporting some of the priorities, the EU feed sector warns that conflicts among some of the...
Company restructure for Yara International
Fertiliser manufacturer Yara International is to restructure its worldwide operations into four profit centres supported by a global Farming Solutions unit. The Norwegian multinational is moving from a segment structure to a regional organisation from June 1st 2020....
Karro expands into Ireland
One of the UK’s major integrated pig producing and processing businesses has acquired the largest pigmeat processor in the Republic of Ireland, subject to clearance from the Irish competition authorities. The Karro Food Group has acquired M&M Walshe Holdings, based in...
Remote auditing in place for AIC schemes
The AIC reports continued progress with remote auditing for its AIC Services suite of agri-supply assurance schemes in response to the Covid-19 restrictions and anticipates that the facility will be available permanently. Remote auditing of compliance has now been in...
New ryegrasses and seed mixes from Limagrain
Plant breeder Limagrain UK has launched two new Italian ryegrass varieties, Melprimo and Messina, onto the UK and Ireland market. The varieties were both bred by ILVO, the Belgium government’s plant breeding institute and are ranked highly for key yield and feed value...