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The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a levy board funded by farmers and growers and some other parts of the supply chain. It aims to enhance farm business efficiency and competitiveness in the areas of: pork, beef and lamb production in England; dairy, potatoes and horticulture in Great Britain; and cereals and oilseeds in the United Kingdom.
It offered feed for farm animals, pets and game birds. The company also offered beef compounds, dry feeds, moist feeds, minerals, organic products, together with forage products, such as fertilizers, grass seeds, maize seeds, and silage additives. It sold its products through a network of distributors around Europe.
This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996. In terms of gross value added in 2009, 83% of the UK's agricultural income originated from England, 9% from Scotland, 4% from Northern Ireland and 3% from Wales. [3] [75] [76 ...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26772-2. (information here) Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle The Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. 1888. English Farming, Past and Present. 1912. and 5 later editions; Thorold Rogers A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from 1259 to 1793 (1866–1902), 7 vols.
Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc. Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market , trades around 5,000,000 tonnes (5,500,000 tons) of grain per year, and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion.
Robert [3] and John Garton made a commercial start as R. & J. Garton. [4] They launched their first variety, 'Abundance' oat, in 1892. Generous publicity followed in the press, together with the publication of articles by botanists in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and in the Transactions of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland in 1894 and 1898. [5]
By 1911, agriculture was a minor industry in Glamorgan, and migrant labour from England was needed to help get in the harvest. Rural craftsmen were also lost and their supply was replenished from depressed areas of southwestern England and by mass immigration from Ireland. [1] Welsh farm labourers sowing seed, c. 1940s
The AEA issues trade statistics and commentary for the national media [4] [5] [6] and organises large events for the industry such as Tillage Live, an annual UK cultivations event focusing on all aspects of crop establishment, [7] and ScotGrass, a triennial grassland event. [8] The AEA became a member of the Engineering and Machinery Alliance ...