Food Politics
JULY 7, 2023
UNICEF does not want its statements to be compromised by conflicted interests with food and beverage companies that make formula or foods for children. Here’s how UNICEF will be dealing with the food and beverage interests. This publication explains just how UNICEF intends to avoid conflicts of interest with companies making products that do not promote childrens’ health.
Agricultural Biodiversity
JULY 5, 2023
There’s a nice map of the spread of the olive doing the rounds on Twitter. But where does it come from? As best as I can make out, the ultimate source seems to be an article on Vivid Maps. All the other maps and illustrations in the article are credited, but this one is not, so I’m thinking the author — Alex — made it him or herself, and a fine job they did too if so.
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Farmers Weekly
JULY 31, 2023
Farmers Weekly Somerset grower Charles Quick managed to catch a break between the rainstorms to make a start on winter wheat harvest, before this week’s forecast of heavy rain. Cutting into a crop of Graham over the weekend on the outskirts of Taunton, Charles was pleased with budgeted yields of 8.
Real Agriculture
JULY 30, 2023
The University of Guelph’s weeds team were big winners at the Weed Science Society of America’s National Weed Science Contest in Union City, Tennessee this past week The 17-member team of graduate and undergraduate students have been preparing for months to test their weed ID, herbicide symptomology, sprayer calibration and farmer problem solving against students.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 31, 2023
Farmers Weekly At Kilmeaden Farm in County Waterford, cows graze either side of a 150m fence that runs north to south the length of one of David Foran’s fields.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 31, 2023
Farmers Weekly The “Axos” name is returning to the Claas tractor range with the introduction of a pair of 92hp and 103hp machines destined for loader, field and general yard work on stock farms and for commercial horticulture. Powered by a 3.
Real Agriculture
JULY 30, 2023
Nearly as important as how you grow your grain, is how you choose to dry it—and AGI mixed flow dryers are built to make the most of this key step in your grain production process. It all comes down to their game-changing “mixed flow” design, first developed by Vertec to address the shortcomings of traditional.
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Farmers Weekly
JULY 30, 2023
Farmers Weekly Stonepicking regularly ranks as one of the most hated jobs in the farming calendar, but for ex-farmworker Carl Hobbs it is proving a profitable side-line business.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 28, 2023
Farmers Weekly July has been the wettest month since October last year for Lincolnshire grower Colin Chappell, who has battled harvest rainstorms including 92mm in 16 days, and lodged winter barley. “We’ve been harvesting the winter barley for weeks now – cutting at every moment physically possible, and we’re still not finished. It’s been raining every day.
Real Agriculture
JULY 27, 2023
Law enforcement officials say they seized over 63 kilograms of suspected cocaine from a commercial truck hauling corn into Canada at the Emerson port of entry on the Manitoba-North Dakota border.
Real Agriculture
JULY 28, 2023
When it comes to producing seed corn, managing pollination and effectively detasseling the crop are critical steps in maintaining genetic purity and seed quality. To get the job done, seed companies use a combination of technology and old fashioned boots on the ground to remove female tassels to ensure they get the unique hybrids they. Read More When it comes to producing seed corn, managing pollination and effectively detasseling the crop are critical steps in maintaining genetic purity and see
Real Agriculture
JULY 27, 2023
Soybeans don’t like wet feet, and when rain is plentiful in June and July, saturated soils typically lead to an increase in fungal seedling diseases. Four of the most common culprits are pythium and phytophthora root rots as well as rhizoctonia and fusarium. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean School, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Read More Soybeans don’t like wet feet, and when rain is plentiful in June and July, saturated soils typically lead to an increase in fungal
Food Politics
JULY 28, 2023
Increasingly and more urgently concerned about the effects on children of unrestricted marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages, UNICEF and WHO have produced an invaluable manual on why and how governments must act to curb such marketing. This is a follow up to the UNICEF report I talked about last week on engagement with food and beverage companies and to the WHO recommendations I posted about yesterday.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 26, 2023
Farmers Weekly Defra is making £10m of additional funding available to livestock farmers in England to replace aging cattle sheds with state-of-the art facilities. The Animal Health and Welfare Infrastructure Grant will allocate awards to farmers ranging from £15,000 to £500,000, prioritising new and upgraded calf housing. The application window will open later this summer.
Real Agriculture
JULY 26, 2023
Students, researchers, and industry will soon have a new facility at the University of Manitoba to dig in to questions on agriculture systems and the Canadian food supply. The Prairie Crops and Soils Research Facility, a new $20.7 million, state-of-the-art 20,000-sq.-ft. facility is set to open in June, 2026. Announced Tuesday, funding for the Prairie.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 24, 2023
Farmers Weekly Winter wheat harvest started two weeks earlier than usual for Dorset farm manager Tom Matthews, making him one of the earliest growers in the UK to cut wheat this season.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 24, 2023
Farmers Weekly Farmers in southern and eastern England have been rounding up the winter barley harvest, with good specific weights and nitrogen content, although quality is slightly below last year. One consequence of the changeable weather is that grain dryers are being used more this year as moisture contents are higher.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 24, 2023
Farmers Weekly Trawling the globe for elite commercial sires and flushing easy-fleshing females from forage-based systems has helped a pedigree herd expand while consistently bulling heifers at 14-15 months old. Dutch veterinary surgeon Gerard te Lintelo and his wife, Joanne, of Mayfield Beef Shorthorns, Wolsingham, County Durham, calve their heifers at 24 months.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 24, 2023
Farmers Weekly Defra secretary Therese Coffey has given her clearest indication yet that her department will continue to cull badgers to tackle bovine TB in England, if the science shows it is working.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 23, 2023
Farmers Weekly With Claas’s focus since 2019 on launching two all-new ranges of walker and rotary separation combines for mid-size to large-scale growers, farmers with relatively modest acreages could be forgiven for feeling overlooked, especially when the Avero and smallest Tucano were withdrawn.
Real Agriculture
JULY 26, 2023
CLAAS has rolled out its new offerings for the latest models, including three options in the Arion series. Introduced at Ag in Motion last week near Saskatoon, Arion is the smaller, hard-working chore tractor complement to the Xerion 12 series. Host of RealAg on the Weekend Shaun Haney caught up with Frans Reijmers of CLAAS. Read More CLAAS has rolled out its new offerings for the latest models, including three options in the Arion series.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 22, 2023
Farmers Weekly One farmer will be expecting gold at Bruce Farm in Stoneygroves, Dundee. We were delighted to see the farm’s Ploeger GP1189 pea harvester pictured working below a stunning double-rainbow.
Real Agriculture
JULY 25, 2023
If you are a fan of this website or RealAg Radio you know one of my favourite topics to rant about is the current Canadian government’s lip service to being focused on trade. Much of this is triggered by the fact we are an export-focused nation with much of our GDP driven by trade but.
Real Agriculture
JULY 26, 2023
July is winding down and some Ontario crops are having a sad time summer. Wheat that’s still in the field is suffering quality loss with every heavy downpour (there have been many), and edible beans and soybeans are yellowing from excess water and/or poor drainage. What can be done about this week’s challenges? Host Peter. Read More July is winding down and some Ontario crops are having a sad time summer.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 20, 2023
Farmers Weekly Burning less diesel and clocking fewer hours by completing two field passes at once might sound like a dream setup, yet one machine that can make that possible – Agronic’s WR rake – has so far proved a surprisingly tough sell in the UK.
Real Agriculture
JULY 18, 2023
The Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat) and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) are calling on the Canadian Grain Commission to reverse its decision to harmonize export and primary test weight and total foreign material tolerances in wheat. Announced in June, the harmonization is set to take effect August 1, 2023, at the.
Real Agriculture
JULY 20, 2023
What happens when a soil-applied herbicide application is followed by severe weather? For many herbicides it is business as usual, but in some cases a heavy rain can cause a typically safe product to injure the plant. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Corn School, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs weed specialist Mike.
Food Politics
JULY 17, 2023
I am devoting this week to the pushback against advice to reduce consumption of ultra-processed foods. It is coming from the food industry, of course, government agencies with ties to the food industry, and nutritionists who focus on the benefits of nutrients, without contextualizing the foods and diets they come from (“nutritionism”). For the record, ultra-processed foods are : Industrially produced Bear little resemblance to the foods they were derived from Typically contain additives for co
Farmers Weekly
JULY 18, 2023
Farmers Weekly Hardy Scottish sheep breed, the North Country Cheviot, will celebrate its 40th appearance at the Royal Welsh Show this year. A handful of dedicated breeders who had successfully begun to establish the Northie first exhibited the versatile breed at the event in 1983.
Real Agriculture
JULY 18, 2023
The Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) welcomes Kyle Larkin as its new executive director. Larkin will assume the post from interim ED, Tyler Bjornson. Prior to joining the GGC, Larkin served as vice-president at Impact Public Affairs, a national public affairs firm.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 15, 2023
Farmers Weekly The Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 gallery has been flooded with fantastic entries this week, including this stunning shot taken from Higher Farm on the Dorset Coast. Andy Sprake captured his combine cutting winter barley on 6 July with the magnificent Fleet and Chesil Bank as the backdrop. Do you have a photo of the week?
Farmers Weekly
JULY 22, 2023
Farmers Weekly A revamped version of Maschio Gaspardo’s high-speed precision drill allows owners to quickly alter row spacings to suit a range of different crops. While fixed-frame Chrono 500s come with set spacings of 45cm, 50cm, 70cm or 75cm in eight- and 12-row configurations, the fanciest variable frame models offer a welter of combinations.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 25, 2023
Farmers Weekly Every year, we make a concerted effort to get ready for harvest earlier, but every year harvest gets earlier, and so we find that yet again we were slow out of the blocks.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 21, 2023
Farmers Weekly Well it was bound to happen. As soon as our neighbours got the combine out, it started raining and it’s been pretty much on and off for a couple of weeks ever since.
Farmers Weekly
JULY 14, 2023
Farmers Weekly Building resilience into the business by growing his own cereals and having a rolling stock of 27,000t of silage is part of Neil Baker’s move to regenerative agriculture. In fact, one of his new key performance indicators at Rushywood Farm, Somerset, is to have six months’ worth of forage on hand.
Food Politics
JULY 12, 2023
My distant (but dearly loved) cousin, the food package designer Michael Kravit , thought I would enjoy seeing this example of first-rate food marketing—and of a healthy product yet. First, open the box. Cut. Scoop. Enjoy! You aren’t sure how? The company even supplies a video. I’d like to see more like this. The post The latest in food marketing: an easy-to-eat healthy snack appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.
Food Politics
JULY 13, 2023
The World Health Organization has just come out with a new report on protecting children from the harms of marketing unhealthy food to kids. Some conclusions from research on the effects of marketing unhealthy foods to kids: Across studies, the most frequently marketed food categories were fast food, sugar-sweetened beverages, chocolate and confectionery, salty and savoury snacks, sweet bakery items and snacks, breakfast cereals, and desserts.
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