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Farmers Weekly The clocks have gone back and the dark nights are here – but let’s be honest, it’s felt like winter for a while now. This drilling season has been one of those where having your own equipment pays off. Chasing the plough with the drill in between showers resulted in us slowly but surely ...

Farmers Weekly A sheep industry health initiative has joined the podcasting craze to further its message on sustainable parasite control in sheep. Three podcast episodes are already available via the Sustainable Control of Parasites (Scops) website as part of a new “audio knowledge exchange drive” across the internet. Scops chairman Kevin Harrison said the podcast was ...

Farmers Weekly Lincolnshire-based potato grower Arundel Kerr Produce (AKP Group) has purchased potato trading business Wolds Produce. AKP Group is one of the UK’s largest potato growers, supplying businesses in the retail, food service and manufacturing sectors across the UK and Europe. It has capacity for 36,000t of on-site potato storage and moves more than 150,000t ...

Farmers Weekly Researchers at the University of Nottingham have discovered a protein in plant roots which optimises nutrient uptake and could be engineered to make crops tolerant to drought and less reliant on artificial fertilisers. The team of scientists identified new dirigent (“directing”) proteins in the endodermis of plant roots that regulate the uptake of nutrients ...

Farmers Weekly The payment rate of £69/ha on offer to Welsh farmers under the Habitat Wales Scheme (HWS) has been described as an “insult to nature”. The Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) is the latest body to publicly criticise the HWS, the scheme that will bridge the gap between Glastir and the new Sustainable Farming Scheme ...

Farmers Weekly A committee of MPs has accused the government of having a “worrying degree of complacency” on rural mental health issues. The cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee spoke out after the government rejected its calls for targeted action on the issue. The Efra report, first published in May, found that farmers ...

Farmers Weekly Farm leaders are demanding an urgent investigation into fairness in the poultrymeat sector, similar to the one recently announced for eggs, to help secure the survival of British broiler farms. Addressing this week’s Egg and Poultry Industry Conference in Newport, south Wales, NFU president Minette Batters said there had not been the same focus ...

Farmers Weekly Getting the most out of the nitrogen applied to crops is important for on farm profitability and for sustainability and Limus®, BASF’s registered dual-active urease inhibitor can help with both. Limus® will not only support growers with new urea-use guidelines coming into play in 2024 but also bring much wider benefits to crops, from ...

As the UK horticulture sector continues to face soaring production costs and a lack of certainty about future workforce availability, the NFU has welcomed many of the recommendations in the The post NFU responds to House of Lords horticulture report appeared first on Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer.

Strutt & Parker has updated its arable farm profitability model with current market data to create forecasts for harvest 2023 and 2024. The modelling tool uses universal assumptions to provide The post Strutt & Parker updates arable profit forecasts for harvest 2024 appeared first on Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer.

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Farmers Weekly An autumn-calving herd is targeting 7,500 litres from 1.5t of parlour cake after moving farm, breed and system. The Barnes family of Alma Bank Farm, near Oakham, have endured six tumultuous years since selling their old farm in nearby Somerby, with planning permission for housing, and building a greenfield dairy unit in the middle ...