‘Get Pelletwise' is the campaign of the Metaldehyde Stewardship Group (MSG) that was set up in 2009 in response to analysis showing traces of metaldehyde, an ingredient of certain slug pellets, being found in catchments used for water abstraction.
The OSR Herbicides? Think Water campaign by working with water companies, agronomists and farmers aims to raise awareness of the issue, improve practices and develop new tools that will support farmers in continuing their responsible use of these herbicides.
Currently, best agricultural practice, as advocated by the UK code of practice for pesticide use and farm assurance schemes, requires that notification takes place when certain crop protection products are used.
Do you work on a UK farm? Do you own or manage farm/s? Do you deliver or visit farm as as part of your role? If health & safety on farm could affect you then this training module could be useful for you to complete and is now available at a discounted rate.
Two recent serious accidents have highlighted the need to rethink risk assessment on all agricultural machinery. In both case studies employees suffered life changing injuries and could have been avoided had the risk been mitigated.
Both consultations cover the same GMO products but are set out in slightly different formats. Please note that in both cases the consultation period ends on 25th January 2022.
On a normal chilly grey morning in Spring 2022, lorry driver Steve Hardy was delivering animal feed to UK farms. What happened next would change Steve's life forever. This is a story about a lone worker who would have died had it not been for a recent upgrade to his lorry.
In this issue we examine the impact of recent challenges to the fertiliser sector, including the ongoing disruption caused by rising global gas prices to fertiliser production and pricing, and shortages of labour and lorry drivers.
UK businesses are gearing up for the impact of OMICROM with up to 25% employee absences expected over the coming months. This could have a massive impact on agricultural businesses across the UK following on from what has been a very turbulent two years since the initial COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020.
The UK government, a signatory to the New York Declaration and the Amsterdam Declarations, convened the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Its members include trade associations for key palm oil-using sectors, the major UK refiners, manufacturers, retailers, food service, finance and NGOs with the aim of promoting the uptake of sustainable palm oil (SPO) in the UK.
The European Soy Monitoring report is a summary of the most important developments and figures in the soy market of 2019. It provides insights on the European uptake of compliant responsible and deforestation-free soy in 2019 and introduces new data on the uptake of the FEFAC Soy Sourcing Guidelines in 2019.
The UK Former Foodstuff Processors Association (UKFFPA) and the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has for the first time released verified carbon footprint scores for former food products (foodstuff) used in animal feed.
Many farmers are facing some difficult decisions about crop feeding plans through winter and into next spring. Disruption to the fertiliser supply chain could well continue into spring 2022.
