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Farmers Weekly Planting trees alongside food production provides additional income, improves soil and livestock health and stores carbon. You don’t have to take agricultural land out of food production to benefit from planting trees on your land. Producing food can go hand in hand with planting trees, ensuring that you can benefit from both at the ...

Farmers Weekly A trainee pilot from Bedfordshire has been praised for stopping the spread of a field fire, after spotting smoke from a burning combine harvester while up in the air last harvest. Flying a small Piper Cherokee aircraft, Jack Giles, alongside instructor Matt McAsh, saw a large cloud of smoke coming from a nearby field, ...

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest has been hampered by wet ground conditions.   This is according to Michael Carpenter, technical director of feed preservation specialist Kelvin Cave. He says it needs a four-wheel-drive or tracked combine with a maize header, and ...

Farmers Weekly Defra secretary Therese Coffey will travel to China next week for talks with officials in a bid to end the last Covid-era restrictions on pork shipments from the UK. China is the world’s biggest pork consumer and the biggest importer of UK product, including a vital destination for offal. See also: Poultry exports to ...

Farmers Weekly Potential candidates are starting to emerge for the three top officeholder positions which will be hotly contested at the upcoming NFU presidential elections. The posts of president, deputy president and vice-president will be available at the elections, with voting to take place at the NFU Conference in Birmingham next February. See also: Exclusive: Batters ...

Bringing production of the S Series back to Valtra’s Suolahti factory in Finland, the sixth generation of the range is topped out by the S416. It’s powered by an AGCO The post Tractor of the Year 2024 – Open Field: Valtra S416 appeared first on Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer.

Developed with the aim of offering a powerful, yet compact tractor, the new 600 Vario series from Fendt is topped out by the Fendt 620. It’s powered by a newly The post Tractor of the Year 2024 – Open Field: Fendt 620 Vario DP appeared first on Farm Contractor & Large Scale Farmer.

Farmers Weekly Disease does not respect borders, so it is incumbent on the whole industry to take a strict stance towards protecting flock health. Sheep breeder and National Sheep Association (NSA) trustee Charles Sercombe says health is key to helping the sheep sector improve productivity and profitability while reducing its environmental footprint. Below, devolved government’s approaches ...

Farmers Weekly Change is in the air in the agri-research space, with plans afoot to merge three of the four Agri-Tech Centres to form a single Agri-Tech “Catapult”. The aim is “to create an innovation ecosystem that will strengthen connections, and accelerate robust, commercially viable and sustainable solutions”. Sounds like so much gobbledygook? Maybe. But the ...

Farmers Weekly We have struggled to terminate fertility leys with shallow cultivations before establishing our first wheats this year, due to a wetter autumn. It has taken four to five passes to get a seed-bed. On reflection, it might have been wiser to have shallow ploughed them in early August, and then got away with one ...

Farmers Weekly The combination of rapidly falling Basic Payment Scheme income, tax certainty for the time being and the changing demands on land use and policy make it even more pressing to consider the long-term future of farm businesses. The growing number of succession cases ending up in court are a further reason – these are ...

Farmers Weekly The Environment Agency stands accused of hypocrisy and negligence over its failure to maintain watercourses to prevent farms from devastating flood damage. Farmers say they are constantly being told by government to look after their soils, the environment and wildlife, but all their good work is being undone by significant damage to farmland after ...