3:00pm Wed 17 May 06 Brenda Davies looks at hay fever from a beekeeper's point of view - June should bring us some lovely sunny days as we approach mid-summer but for many people it will mean putting up with constant sneezing, stuffy nose, itchy eyes and the misery of hay fever. 9:53am Mon 21 Apr 08 A search has been launched across the South West to find people who have given their lives to managing and caring for the countryside and the traditional sports which provide the incentive for a raft of rural management programmes. 4:09pm Wed 23 Apr 08 BLUE tongue disease is caused by a virus, spread by biting midges. It affects ruminants, including alpacas, and was confirmed in East Anglia on September 28, 2007. At 2pm on March 19, there were 110 premises where blue tongue had been confirmed. 1:12pm Tue 22 Apr 08 Young pig producers gained a valuable insight into what influences consumers when they buy pork and where the burgeoning markets are likely to be in the future at the first West Country young pig producers dinner held in Exeter recently. 1:00pm Wed 16 Apr 08 CLA members in the South West are to throw down the gauntlet to public sector purchasers and challenge them to take a new look at the origins of the food they buy. 3:35pm Wed 24 May 06 Janice Houghton-Wallace looks at the pitfalls and pleasures of buying poultry
Poultry keeping is still immensely popular. Yes, even with the threat of avian influenza hanging over us all! 4:06pm Mon 21 Apr 08 The quality of lambs slaughtered and classified in English abattoirs has held up remarkably well over the past year in the face of the serious marketing disruptions caused by foot and mouth disease and Bluetongue movement restrictions. 4:04pm Tue 22 Apr 08 Buyers for farms in England are outnumbering sellers by 30:1, pushing arable land prices up by 40% over the last year. 6:07pm Sat 19 Apr 08 The foul smell wafting over large parts of London and the South East this weekend is a taste of things to come if the Government presses ahead with its ill-conceived plan to ban slurry spreading during the winter, the NFU has warned. 11:21am Thu 19 Oct 06 Tips for winter management - Now that the ground is getting wetter, the ducks will be dibbling, picking up more earthworms from the ground. They will also be picking up more dangerous kinds of worms.
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