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The growing Mexican ingredient: Salsa Roja
Salsa roja, meaning simply “red salsa” in Spanish, is growing on...
Chick-fil-A launches Little Blue Menu food truck
The new Little Blue Menu food truck will first visit Louisville...
Bringing a twist to points-based loyalty, restaurant brands seek to ‘surprise and delight’
Operators seek to drive excitement around the possibility of free rewards.
Convoy announces staffing reductions
Digital freight platform Convoy said Monday it has made cuts to one of its departments. The company, based in Seattle, told FreightWaves on Monday the trims were to the customer experience operations team. Convoy did not…
Biodiversity in Scotland harmed by “hardening green agenda”
Farmers Weekly A “hardening green agenda” on the part of the Scottish government is having a detrimental effect on biodiversity, NFU Scotland has claimed. The union’s president, Martin Kennedy, said the power-sharing pact…
Opinion: TV is the perfect platform for Young Farmers
Farmers Weekly On a cold, wet winter’s day in December, six young farmers will gather for battle. This won’t, however, be outside a beer tent arguing over spilt drinks, it will be for the final of the Scottish Association of…
Farmer Focus: Regenerative agriculture – a term loathed by many
Farmers Weekly The year is racing by and shows no sign of slowing down. Blink and we will be harvesting. I try to make a point each year of getting off the reservation and visiting some farms around the country. It…
Crop Watch: Chose wheats with good disease resistance for next season
Farmers Weekly After a tough season for controlling disease in winter wheat, growers are being urged to look carefully at variety choice for next season and chose those with good disease resistance to put less strain on…
On test: 3 types of shade for outdoor pigs
Farmers Weekly A Norfolk outdoor pig unit is trialling three ways of providing shade to find out which one offers the most practical solution to improving pig welfare and productivity. Digging wallows has become common…
Lightweight JCB 403 proves a hit for Pembrokeshire farm
Farmers Weekly Harold, David and Berwyn Warlow run a brace of compact JCB 403 wheel loaders on their 300-cow dairy farm and beef unit near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. Duties for the pint-sized machines include slurry scraping,…
