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Farmers Weekly I wasn’t surprised Red Tractor’s recent plan for a Greener Farms Commitment (GFC) went down like a lead

Farmers Weekly Tractor-mad nine-year-old Buddy Antcliff has been bitten by the vintage tractor bug, having just completed a full restoration

Farmers Weekly Of course it’s good news that inflation is reducing. The Bank Of England’s consistent monthly hikes to the

Farmers Weekly An outbreak of avian influenza has been confirmed in a flock of indoor turkeys in south Lincolnshire, marking

Farmers Weekly An environmental campaign group is taking legal action against the government, accusing it of axing its pledge to

Farmers Weekly Grain trader and supplier Cefetra has launched a new initiative designed to financially reward farm businesses for sustainable

Farmers Weekly The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the acquisition by ABP of Scotbeef’s Bridge of Allan abattoir

Farmers Weekly Three new drill listings and additional models for existing ranges feature in the 2023 edition of Farmers Weekly’s

Farmers Weekly Of all the supply chains to be found in British agriculture, it is the ones in the egg

Farmers Weekly As many as two-thirds of the farmland ponds in England and Wales have been lost though drainage and

Farmers Weekly Having five carcasses condemned for discolouration caused by cysts has cost a farm dearly and highlighted the issue

Farmers Weekly Just before Christmas in 1935, Farmer’s Weekly published Farmhouse Fare, a book composed entirely of recipes sent to

Farmers Weekly On the Cumbria-Northumberland border, the Greenside Estate is one of the few investment properties to come to the

Farmers Weekly Who dropped the ball? Good old Red Tractor (RT) sells us short to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Farmers Weekly Dairy exports are set to grow in response to a £1m investment by government to help businesses target

Farmers Weekly Stressed out farmers should accept what they can and cannot control and act on factors within the farmgate

Farmers Weekly Another case testing farming family business arrangements was decided in court recently, highlighting the need for clarity and

Farmers Weekly HS2 was heralded by the Conservative government as an integral part of its Northern Powerhouse strategy, a high-speed

Farmers Weekly If you were going to pick the perfect commercial farm to host a significant programme of trials and

Farmers Weekly Natural England spent more than £18,000 of taxpayers’ money on travel and accommodation to designate an area of

Farmers Weekly Feeding more milk to dairy calves to achieve faster growth rates is no longer just a management technique.

Farmers Weekly On-farm surveillance specialist Luda.Farm has developed a new internet-based camera system that works without a hard-wired connection. The

Farmers Weekly In autumn 2019 we didn’t drill a viable acre of winter crop due to the wet weather. With

Farmers Weekly A Cumbrian farmer has survived a heart attack having recently read our article in the Farmers Weekly monthly

Farmers Weekly A Herefordshire farmer says he has lost £39,000 after he was caught out by a fraudulent machinery scam.

Farmers Weekly UK lamb prices are being strengthened by export trade with less lamb available in Europe. Despite some seasonal

Farmers Weekly A new Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill has been proposed to ban live exports of cattle, sheep, goats,

Farmers Weekly A large UK surplus and competitive export markets are putting pressure on feed wheat prices. Some industry figures

Farmers Weekly The government has given a clear direction to British Sugar and the NFU that negotiations over the next

Farmers Weekly A new report calls for a rethink of “overly restrictive” regulation of plant protection products (PPPs) inherited from

Farmers Weekly Our latest machinery shed rummage unearths a fleet of well-worked Valtras on the Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, one of

Farmers Weekly Calf pneumonia has stayed in the top 10 of the most frequent diagnoses from carcass submissions* in Great

Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly has launched a landmark survey to measure the progress which has been made for women in

Farmers Weekly Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper rose to fame after appearing on Jeremy Clarkson’s hit TV show, which documented

Farmers Weekly Diversification usually allows farmers more control over the prices they charge for goods and services than they have

Farmers Weekly Delinked payments will replace Basic Payment Scheme income in England next year. The RPA is gearing up to

Farmers Weekly The clocks have gone back and the dark nights are here – but let’s be honest, it’s felt

Farmers Weekly A sheep industry health initiative has joined the podcasting craze to further its message on sustainable parasite control

Farmers Weekly Lincolnshire-based potato grower Arundel Kerr Produce (AKP Group) has purchased potato trading business Wolds Produce. AKP Group is

Farmers Weekly Researchers at the University of Nottingham have discovered a protein in plant roots which optimises nutrient uptake and

Farmers Weekly The payment rate of £69/ha on offer to Welsh farmers under the Habitat Wales Scheme (HWS) has been

Farmers Weekly A committee of MPs has accused the government of having a “worrying degree of complacency” on rural mental

Farmers Weekly Farm leaders are demanding an urgent investigation into fairness in the poultrymeat sector, similar to the one recently

Farmers Weekly Getting the most out of the nitrogen applied to crops is important for on farm profitability and for

Farmers Weekly An autumn-calving herd is targeting 7,500 litres from 1.5t of parlour cake after moving farm, breed and system.

Farmers Weekly October’s wet weather came a little too early for us, leaving one field left to drill with winter

Farmers Weekly Cow-calf separation is “contentious” and a growing concern for consumers around the world. And while they do not

Farmers Weekly Onshore wind turbine developments have been all but prohibited for almost a decade due to the restrictions imposed

Farmers Weekly Nottinghamshire young farmer Sophie Owen, 22, is on a mission to educate farmers and businesses about heart health

Farmers Weekly Two new compact, zero-emissions wheeled loaders have joined the Kubota stable, offering near-silent operation for working indoors, around

Farmers Weekly Fertiliser manufacturer CF Fertilisers UK, a subsidiary of CF Industries, has sold millions of pounds worth of carbon

Farmers Weekly Once a year, courtesy of an invite from the editor, I don black tie and head to the

Farmers Weekly Strong demand for farmland from a range of buyers has kept land prices elevated during the third quarter

Farmers Weekly Technology developers are being offered up to £200,000 in government cash to help reduce ammonia emissions from cattle

Farmers Weekly More than 1,000 tractors were registered in the UK during October – an increase of 8.6% compared to

Farmers Weekly A mix of peas and mustard generated the highest gross margin in the first year of an extensive

Farmers Weekly UK food security is being placed in jeopardy by the government’s lack of interest in the fruit and

Farmers Weekly Training heifers to the parlour, keeping them with their peers, or managing them as a separate milking group

Farmers Weekly South Korean maker Kioti has tweaked its trio of three-seat K9 UTVs, with the 2410s gaining an upgraded

Farmers Weekly Agriculture is a devolved matter here in Scotland, so we are at the mercy of Holyrood and the

Farmers Weekly Vaccine supply disruption has frustrated beef and sheep farmers over the past two years, but things could be

Farmers Weekly More than 50% of adults would reportedly build their own home, given the opportunity, but the two biggest

Farmers Weekly I hope everyone is well. It feels like October has passed us by in no time at all.

Farmers Weekly Rainy days on the farm have never been easier, says this week’s Photo of the Week contributor Bridget

Farmers Weekly The chance of bluetongue disease entering the UK is described as “medium” following the latest Defra assessment, with

Farmers Weekly Back in the days when stubble burning was as much a part of blackgrass control as IPU, many

Farmers Weekly Avant Tecno, the Finnish maker of diddy green compact loaders, has added a brace of new models to

Farmers Weekly It is common practice to use mastitis and cell count patterns to see which broad area of risk

Farmers Weekly Welcome to another This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of the best content from Farmers Weekly and

Farmers Weekly The pumpkin patch has been in full swing during October, with hundreds of people coming through the field

Farmers Weekly Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Sam Shaikh,

Farmers Weekly Farmers must learn to “clean-graze” lambs to reduce worm burdens, rather than routinely relying on anthelmintics. This was

Farmers Weekly As Maschio Garspardo’s new UK distribution subsidiary prepared to start full operations at premises in Lincolnshire from 1

Farmers Weekly Welsh farmers, who stand to lose up to 70% of their environmental payments once the Glastir land management

Farmers Weekly NFU Sugar has written to Defra farming minister Mark Spencer asking his department to urgently intervene in the

Farmers Weekly Achieving net zero in Wales by 2050 is going to be “very challenging”, according to a senior adviser

Farmers Weekly There’s a shortage of cash in the entire farming system, according to Richard Barrow, who co-owns and manages

Farmers Weekly A snap poll by Farmers Weekly revealed that 52% of dairy farmers who responded, train their heifers through

Farmers Weekly Could mint extracts be the secret ingredient to tackling resistant weeds, such as blackgrass and Italian ryegrass? Could

Farmers Weekly Biodiversity net gain (BNG) sites are already in demand. Here, Julie Robinson, agriculture partner at Roythornes Solicitors, talks

Farmers Weekly A problem shared is a problem halved, and we could rightly do without half of the weather that

Farmers Weekly Love Island and TikTok star Will Young, known as “Farmer Will”, is on a mission to make farming

Farmers Weekly To have the right to criticise an institution, and be listened to, you also have to give praise

Farmers Weekly With Christmas approaching at an alarming rate, Farmers Weekly is once again “taking the pulse” of the farming

Farmers Weekly Planting trees alongside food production provides additional income, improves soil and livestock health and stores carbon. You don’t

Farmers Weekly A trainee pilot from Bedfordshire has been praised for stopping the spread of a field fire, after spotting

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest

Farmers Weekly Defra secretary Therese Coffey will travel to China next week for talks with officials in a bid to

Farmers Weekly Potential candidates are starting to emerge for the three top officeholder positions which will be hotly contested at

Farmers Weekly Disease does not respect borders, so it is incumbent on the whole industry to take a strict stance

Farmers Weekly Change is in the air in the agri-research space, with plans afoot to merge three of the four

Farmers Weekly We have struggled to terminate fertility leys with shallow cultivations before establishing our first wheats this year, due

Farmers Weekly The combination of rapidly falling Basic Payment Scheme income, tax certainty for the time being and the changing

Farmers Weekly The Environment Agency stands accused of hypocrisy and negligence over its failure to maintain watercourses to prevent farms

Farmers Weekly Sheepdogs are often one of the farm’s greatest assets, and the value of a well-trained collie cannot be

Farmers Weekly Deadweight lamb prices have rallied in recent weeks, with smaller numbers coming forward than this time last year.

Farmers Weekly British Sugar has written to its 2,300 sugar beet growers to offer them a price of £38/t for

Farmers Weekly Gains from improved wholesale dairy commodity markets are yet to pass through to farmgate milk prices, with many

Farmers Weekly Industry bodies remain split over the future for Red Tractor, with a call from AHDB to consolidate all