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A new parcel of prime land has become available between the Severn Estuary and River Wye. Having been in the same family for over 60 years, the block of land The post 70 hectares available near Chepstow appeared first on Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer.

Ahead of Lamma, KRM has announced a new model of fertiliser spreader, as well as several upgrades to the existing range. The L15W brings weigh cell technology down to the The post KRM adds new fertiliser spreader for Lamma appeared first on Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer.

This Flood Action Week (20-26 November) the Environment Agency is urging people to prepare for increased weather extremes

Farmers Weekly Prolific flock genetics and skilful management have overcome setbacks to get a lowland sheep flock hitting budgets, three years after being established. Farm manager Ben Smith says the accounts at North Falaknowe, Coldingham, on the Berwickshire coast, show upwards of 170% sold for the past two years. Ben manages the farm for owner David ...

Farmers Weekly October has been a busy month for us as we opened our farm gates again for our annual pumpkin picking events.  Every year comes with its own challenges, and this year was the harvest of too many pumpkins. On the positive side, it enabled us to sell wholesale to several competitor patches around the ...

Farmers Weekly Horizon Agriculture has put its DSX no-till disc drill on a serious diet, creating a lightweight version that’s suited to smaller farms. Coulters on the M:DSX are the same undercut disc units as used on its bigger sibling, but rather than being mounted on a heavy-duty trailed chassis, they’re bolted to a simple three-point ...

Farmers Weekly Biologicals will make up 25% of the overall crop protection market by 2035, growing by more than three times to a value of $30bn (£24bn), predicts Dr John Wiles, global biology leader with Corteva Agriscience. Currently, the global figure stands at $9bn (£7.3bn), he reveals, but the combined drivers of sustainable production, legislation, new ...

Farmers Weekly Automatic turn compensation is already an established piece of technology on high-end crop sprayers, but it’s now coming to the world of granular fertiliser spreaders. Amazone’s CurveControl works by automatically adjusting the rate and spread pattern as the machine travels around a corner, avoiding over-dosing plants on the inside of the bend and depriving ...

Farmers Weekly Two odd-looking antennas adorn the regular header of Case IH’s latest Axial Flow 7160 combine on show at Agritechnica. These parasol-like frames loop over the reel and, at their tips, carry radars capable of monitoring the density of the approaching crop. See also: Brace of John Deere X9 combines gobble 170t of wheat an hour ...

Farmers Weekly A popular topic of conversation between farmers is misconceptions about agriculture. It gets people, myself included, all riled up.  Often it’s simply misunderstandings about the complexity of an issue that, to the unexposed onlooker, seems to have a rather simple conclusion: “Cows are killing the planet” or “farmers are all rich”, to name just ...

Farmers Weekly A five-year welfare strategy for the UK sheep industry has been launched by Ruminant Health & Welfare. The aim is to deliver high welfare and encourage the adoption of good practice on all sheep farms regardless of size, location or production system. See also: Sheep flock health: Government schemes and farmer priorities Speaking at the ...

Farmers Weekly Tafe might be best known for its reproductions of classic Massey Ferguson tractors, but the Indian brand has been beavering away on a host of more modern products. Additions include a compact fully electric prototype called the e30, which has 25kWh of lithium-ion batteries powering three electric motors – one to drive the wheels, ...