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Spring welcomes annual ploughing contest
11:49am Monday 15th March 2010
AN annual ploughing match took place in near perfect conditions at the weekend.
Changes needed to give tenants greater security
12:48pm Friday 12th March 2010
CHANGES to the inheritance tax system may be needed to encourage landlords to offer long-term farm tenancies.
Trials of biofuels at Darlington aim to find best techniques
12:49pm Friday 12th March 2010
THE latest in a series of workshops to help local farmers grow crops for the biofuels market takes place at Croft, near Darlington, later this month.
Free seminar offers advice on improving cow welfare
12:49pm Friday 12th March 2010
A FREE seminar to help dairy farmers improve cow welfare and make more profit from milk takes place in Hawes at the end of the month.
Sowray wins first monthly calf sale
12:51pm Friday 12th March 2010
THE winner of a new monthly calf show at Skipton mart was this four-and-a-half-weekold Genus Fertility Plus British Blue bull calf shown by Peter Sowray, of Bishop Thornton.
Tenant farmers forced to give landlords single payments
11:48am Friday 5th March 2010
FARMHOUSE rents and the loss of single payment entitlements are causing problems for some tenant farmers.
Growing energy crops will increase in future
11:49am Friday 5th March 2010
ENERGY crops may take over from food crops in the North- East.
Conserving history
11:50am Friday 5th March 2010
A SECOND adviser has been appointed to help the region’s farmers safeguard historic features and buildings.
Possible disease epidemic
11:49am Friday 5th March 2010
YELLOW rust has re-emerged in some winter wheat crops in Yorkshire, despite freezing temperatures.
FWAG debates hill farming
11:51am Friday 5th March 2010
THE future of hill farming will be debated next week.
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