Agri-Business
Arla Foods has committed approximately €300 million to a new cheese dairy at its production site in Gotene, Sweden.
Machinery
As reported last week, the respected Swedish plough and implement manufacturer, Overum Industries,...
Pig/Poultry
With around 1bn pig worldwide, the pork sector produces significant quantities of emissions per year that now have targets for reduction.
N.Ireland
New Holland announced in April that it was to sell the Overum plough business to FairCap, a company that already has interests in agriculture
Sweden’s National Veterinary Institute has confirmed that a case of African swine fever (ASF)...
Despite the uncertainty over machinery sales over the last couple of months, manufacturers like Vaderstad are pressing ahead with investment in new products and manufacturing facilities.
DeLaval has begun the groundbreaking at Hamra Farm in Sweden for a 18,000m² rebuild.
A number of countries and cities around the world have taken steps to ensure people stay away from...
Rural Life
The Euroskills 2016 competition, for the "agricultural mechanic" category, was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, back in December.
Dairy
Installing two milking robots on one Swedish farm has given the owners more time with their children. The Sonessons had the two robots installed in 2005.
Milking over 700 cows three times a day is no easy feat, especially when you're a part-time farmer. Lars-Inge Gunnarsson is a farmer in Sweden and spends half his time on the farm.
Based in the Skane region of Sweden, Maria and her husband Carlos set up the cheese dairy Soldier's Dairy (Soldattorpets Mejeri in Swedish) in 2010.
Some 720 dairy cows are milked three times a day on the Skottorps Sateri farm in Sweden which is owned and run by Lars-Inge Gunnarsson.
