Pasture to Profit Conference 2014 (DairyCo)
(Source: DairyCo) Pasture to Profit Conference 2014 Published 12 December 14 This year's Pasture to Profit conference, organised by the Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC), looked at 'Making money...
View ArticleMilk Bar Chelsea
(Credit: Milk Bar) The latest outpost of the Milk Bar empire is now open in Chelsea. The new location of Christina Tosi's bakery features all the favorites, from Cereal Milk soft serve to birthday cake...
View ArticleIntensive farmer with eye on the environment
About the only good thing to come out of a drought is that it brings lost tools to the surface. As the soil hardens and the pastures dry out, that spanner dropped while fixing a water pipe or the...
View ArticleFoodie holidays in Australia: sleeping with the chefs
The sophisticated restaurant at Lake House, Daylesford. Take your relationship with your favourite celebrity cook up a notch by staying over and adding breakfast to the menu, writes Janne Apelgren. The...
View ArticleLakpini: NAPRI’s Research Facilities are Old and Obsolete
The Executive Director of the National Animal Production Research Institute, Prof. Clarence Lakpini highlights the strategic importance of the body to Nigeria’s food security and laments that the...
View ArticleManagement Notes for November 2016 (Department of Agriculture, Environment...
(Source: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - Northern Ireland Government) Management Notes are prepared by staff from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise...
View Article‘Dryland specialists — not victims’
Coping with dry conditions on Otago farms and the ongoing implications is about taking action, as agribusiness reporter Sally Rae reports. Soul-destroying. That is how Otago Rural Support Trust...
View ArticleGrassland derogations for livestock manure in nitrate vulnerable zones (The...
(Source: The Environment Agency) In an NVZ, you can apply up to 170kg per hectare of nitrogen in livestock manure (including manure deposited by livestock or by spreading) on your holding in each...
View ArticleMy 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice
The Guardian’s restaurant critic picks her 50 favourite restaurants in the UK, from a seaside pub in Kent that serves some of the best food on the planet to a Glasgow old-timer that’s a city...
View ArticleSpring & summer planted forage & fodder crops (Heritage Seeds Pty Ltd)
(Source: Heritage Seeds Pty Ltd) By Robert Winter Spring and summer present an opportunity to plant a forage crop for summer, autumn or winter feed. Depending on the environment, planting time, stock...
View ArticleEarly sowing delivers benefits in LRZ (GRDC - Grains Research and Development...
(Source: GRDC - Grains Research and Development Corporation) Farming in the low rainfall zone of north-western Victoria means Matt Curtis needs to make every drop of rain count. That is why for the...
View ArticleManagement Notes for October 2016 (Department of Agriculture, Environment and...
(Source: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - Northern Ireland Government) Management Notes are prepared by staff from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise...
View ArticlePigs, cows, sheep - not a normal farm
Walk in one gate and you see pigs, through another there's sheep or beef, and a third gate leads to the cowshed. With its diverse range of animals, Ngarara Farm is not your average farm. Owned by Bryan...
View ArticleIsrael sprays Gazan farmland close to border fence, destroying crops and...
(Source: B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) In December 2015, Palestinian farmers in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli military planes had...
View ArticleRural Payments service: land use codes
When farmers apply for the Basic Payment Scheme using the Rural Payments service, they must use the codes on this page to declare what they use their land for. To search the lists on this page, click...
View ArticleDark and dairy: The sorry tale of the milch animals
India has been making national and international headlines for its soaring beef exports. However, while there is ambivalence about India’s place in the beef market, there is more or less unquestioned...
View ArticleJapan's pampered cows eat cheap to boost profit on $US250 steak
The most-expensive meat in the world is getting a little cheaper to produce. Japanese farmers who raise Wagyu cattle for 7-ounce steaks that can fetch $US250 at the poshest restaurants have been...
View ArticleSouth Gippsland farmer moves milking season to adapt to climate change
Farmer Marian Macdonald with her family Photo: Heather Downing "It's such a dramatic change that the circle of life has actually shifted," Marian Macdonald says over the phone from her South Gippsland...
View ArticleMongolian imports to quench forage thirst
China will import more than 400,000 metric tons of forage from Mongolia next year to cope with the growing demand for dairy and other high-protein products, officials said on Wednesday. Shipments have...
View ArticleFodder for thought
The orders being issued by different state governments restricting production, sale and consumption of cattle meat — particularly beef — has generated much heat in the past few weeks. The discourse on...
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