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The method has been used to re-analyse samples from a crustacean mortality incident in the north east in Autumn 2021, with results indicating very low levels of pyridine and supporting independent panel conclusions

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Farmers Weekly It is common practice to use mastitis and cell count patterns to see which broad area of risk is responsible for a herd’s infections. Various software packages, along with programs such as AHDB’s Mastitis Pattern Analysis Tool, signal whether main infection risks are from the dry period or lactation and suggest whether environmental or ...

Farmers Weekly Welcome to another This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of the best content from Farmers Weekly and FWi over the past seven days. But before we get into it, a quick request to complete our annual Sentiment Survey which is live until next Tuesday (7 November). It takes about 10 minutes to complete, ...

Farmers Weekly The pumpkin patch has been in full swing during October, with hundreds of people coming through the field gate. With nine patches within an hour of us and everyone wanting a slice of the pumpkin pie, it has kept us on our toes and means we’re always looking for the next opportunity. For my ...

Farmers Weekly Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Sam Shaikh, associate, Carter Jonas offers advice on business rate issues, and here looks at a question about a cider orchard. See also: Business Clinic: what are the premiums for battery storage? Q: We grow 150-200t of cider ...

Farmers Weekly Farmers must learn to “clean-graze” lambs to reduce worm burdens, rather than routinely relying on anthelmintics. This was the message from Matt Colston, who said farmers need to relearn the art of grazing practised by their ancestors. “We have had 60 years of really cheap, really effective broad-spectrum wormers, so farmers have turned to ...

Farmers Weekly As Maschio Garspardo’s new UK distribution subsidiary prepared to start full operations at premises in Lincolnshire from 1 November, the parent company in Italy has forged an alliance with French cultivator maker Gregoire Besson. The formal agreement covers shared skills, expertise and investment in tillage equipment R&D, joint purchase of components for greater economies ...

Farmers Weekly Welsh farmers, who stand to lose up to 70% of their environmental payments once the Glastir land management scheme is axed at the end of this year, have been warned it is “very unlikely” that the successor scheme’s budget will be increased to alleviate that financial pain. At the NFU Cymru conference on Thursday ...

Farmers Weekly NFU Sugar has written to Defra farming minister Mark Spencer asking his department to urgently intervene in the ongoing sugar beet pricing row. In a letter sent to Mr Spencer, president Minette Batters said the union is “shocked and deeply frustrated” that, following months of negotiations, British Sugar has failed to agree terms for ...