MY JOB IS: SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR

MY JOB IS: SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR

An interview with Rod Crossley, Senior Technical Advisor at Bright Maize What is your day-to-day job at Bright Maize? I see my role as being a link between the farmer/farm manager and the maize seed producer. I spend a lot of time in the field, as it were, working...
FARMING THROUGH CORONA-CRISIS

FARMING THROUGH CORONA-CRISIS

The coronavirus crisis raises many questions for farming and the wider agricultural community. For the immediate future, many farmers are worried. Can they keep working? Can they hire the labour that will be needed for rapidly approaching harvests? Are we going to be...
DAIRY FARMING – THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

DAIRY FARMING – THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

The good Dairy farming is a motor for the rural economy In the UK, 13,000 dairy farmers manage nearly 2 million dairy cows to produce over 14 billion litres of milk each year with a wholesale value of £8.8 billion. And that’s before it has been processed into saleable...