- Ultimate Guide to buying a direct tine drill 2024 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
Two drill ranges from New Zealand – Aitchison and Duncan – and Kverneland make their debut in this year’s Ultimate Guide to tine coulter no-till drills. As usual, the guide includes implements such as the Claydon Evolution and Hybrid, and the Mzuri Pro-Til, which have a leading tine to create a narrow band of ...
- Pulse growers invited to new variety list launch 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has changed the format of its Descriptive List launch for peas and beans to encourage pulse growers to attend. In a change to previous years, the findings from the variety trials will be revealed during a webinar at 10.30am on 27 November. See also: Grower reveals yield ...
- 4 ways to improve on 60-day calf mortality rate 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
Healthy calves can achieve growth rates of 1,080g/day, but just one day of diarrhoea reduces this by 80g. A calf with respiratory disease will lose 180g/day off its growth rate – and an unlucky calf with both diseases will drop 202g/day. Scouring calves lose vital nutrients that help them fight disease, and this makes ...
- This Week in Farming: Sugar row, Kaleb Cooper and delinking 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Farming, where we bring you the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. But before we get started, here’s a question: To what extent is agriculture still a sexist industry? We asked that question back in 2014, and now we’re asking farmers, both female ...
- Farmer Focus: Welcoming 140 primary school pupils to the farm 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
We welcomed pupils from three urban schools so they could get close to nature and farming during our debut agricultural open day, organised with leading charity Countryside Learning. The farm team got a huge amount out of explaining their work to 140 children from primary schools in Wolverhampton and Walsall, two areas in the ...
- Aberdeenshire woodlands on market in five lots 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
The recent launch in Aberdeenshire of just over 401 acres in five lots adds to the choice for woodland and forestry buyers. With an overall guide price of offers of more than £1.12m, the Drum Estate Woodlands near Drumoak have diverse potential, from timber production to recreational use. They are on the market with ...
- Opinion: Farmers should resist Red Tractor’s latest move 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
I wasn’t surprised Red Tractor’s recent plan for a Greener Farms Commitment (GFC) went down like a lead balloon with farmers. The proposal was that, from April 2024, it would be an “optional” bolt-on. But we all know from experience these things are never optional for long, and during inspections you will be made ...
- Tractor-mad nine-year-old restores vintage tractor 12/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
Tractor-mad nine-year-old Buddy Antcliff has been bitten by the vintage tractor bug, having just completed a full restoration of a 1947 David Brown Cropmaster. Working under the watchful eye of granddad Steve Lyne, Buddy, who was gifted the tractor by family friend Michael Hart, has painstakingly brought the machine back to running condition. “His ...
- Speech: Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey addresses United for Wildlife 11/11/2023
Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey discusses UK ambition to tackle the illegal wildlife trade in Singapore.
- Guidance: RPA Customer Privacy Notices 11/11/2023
Find out how the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) handles your personal data
- How to manage repayments now interest rates bite 11/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
Of course it’s good news that inflation is reducing. The Bank Of England’s consistent monthly hikes to the base interest rate have cut it from 11% last autumn to 6.7% now. It could even fall to 5% by the end of the year if you believe the politicians. Slowly but steadily, the UK economy ...
- Avian influenza: First case of the season in Lincs turkeys 11/11/2023
Farmers Weekly
An outbreak of avian influenza has been confirmed in a flock of indoor turkeys in south Lincolnshire, marking the first case in a commercial unit since the start of the bird flu “season” on 1 October. The premises is near Donington, just inland from The Wash, and a 3km Protection Zone and 10km Surveillance ...