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The Welsh government has made £33m available for nine Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) preparatory schemes. These, deputy first minister Huw Irranca-Davies said, will provide certainty and stability and back farm…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Wheat yellow rust rating set to fall for next season

Winter wheat growers are being warned that disease resistance ratings for yellow rust are set to fall this autumn for many leading feed wheat varieties, after a new race of…

VARIETY SELECTION

Harvest 2025: The 5 top-yielding winter barley varieties map

Throughout harvest 2025, we are updating our handy interactive map with the latest data from the AHDB’s winter barley Recommended List harvest results. Use the map below to find the…

HARVEST

Harvest 2025: OSR yields well but wheats are mixed

Harvest is gathering pace across England, with oilseed rape yielding well and coming in dry and clean. Wheat yields are mixed, but grain quality is notably high, with strong specific…

VARIETY SELECTION

Why Essex grower is expanding Scope wheat area this autumn

Essex grower Jeremy Durrant is so impressed with the new top-yielding feed winter wheat variety Scope that it will take up a quarter of his 500ha winter wheat area next…

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HEALTH AND WELFARE

Welsh rural affairs minister, Huw Irranca-Davies, has urged the farming industry to unite on the national vaccination drive against Bluetongue virus (BTV-3), warning that time is running out to prevent…

CEREAL DRILLS

Sky adds lower-cost coulters to Progress harrow drill

Simpler and lighter single-disc coulters are a new option for the Sky Agriculture (formerly Sulky) Progress piggy-back air drill. The established P30 coulter design is already used on the manufacturer’s…

COMBINES

Power hike for flagship Claas Trion 760 combine harvester

There’s a new top dog in Claas’s Trion 700 combine harvester range, packing a gutsier engine, bigger grain tank and higher-spec cab than its predecessor. Primarily aimed at customers who…

CULTIVATORS

Amtec introduces Torox 'old-school' disc cultivators

The advent of minimum tillage and regenerative farming practices sounded the death knell for “old-school” heavy-duty disc cultivators from the likes of Simba and Gregoire-Besson. But Amtec, the Warwickshire-based used…

TECHNOLOGY

RootWave wins ÂŁ11m funding for electric weed control

Warwickshire-based RootWave has secured a useful capital injection to help roll out its patented electric weed zapping technology. The $15m (£11m) funding boost for RootWave, which includes $3m (£2.2m) in…

LAND MARKETS

More farmers are thinking “beyond the farm gate” to ride out a series of challenges facing the sector and secure a future for their businesses. Growers and livestock producers say…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Kate Bell of accountant Albert Goodman sets out considerations on partnership capital…

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NEWS

There is often a big gulf between possessing an ambition to instigate change in a farming system and applying it, but Andrew McFadzean has more or less fully achieved the…

Opinion

OPINION

“That’s very brave, minister.” The immortal words of Yes Minister’s permanent secretary Sir Humphrey when he wanted to advise the minister for the Department of Administrative Affairs, Jim Hacker, that…

Community

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

A new series of Clarkson’s Farm landed in May, suddenly putting farming back on people’s agendas. Friends who’d normally glaze over at the mention of fattening weights or nitrate leaching…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days. First, here’s your markets (opens as PDF). It’s been…

OPINION

“That’s very brave, minister.” The immortal words of Yes Minister’s permanent secretary Sir Humphrey when he wanted to advise the minister for the Department of Administrative Affairs, Jim Hacker, that…

WILL'S WORLD

We broke a harvest record yesterday. Not for yield, unfortunately – though early indications are that it’s going to be pretty decent this year – but for start date. We…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

The lead up to harvest is meant to be a quiet time on most farms, with holidays taken in preparation for the long hours ahead. I have managed a fleeting…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

The last two weeks of June was scheduled to be a busy time, and both daughters were home giving a helping hand. The weather had been kind as we were…

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Video: Earliest ever barley harvest for Merseyside grower

Merseyside arable farmer and YouTube personality Olly Harrison has kicked off his earliest ever barley harvest, starting on Thursday 26 June – a day ahead of his previous record set…

YOUNG FARMERS

Video: 90 and Counting - James Harris, future farmer, Shrops

Future farmer James Harris, four, is the fifth generation on his family’s beef farm in Shropshire, where he lives with mum Katie, dad Robert and sister Florence, nine. About a…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 263: Tom Youngs on farming and rugby

In this episode, former British Lion Tom Youngs shares his thoughts on farming and rugby. We run the rule on the government’s latest iteration of a national food strategy -…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 262: Dry weather - drought and wildfire fears

In this episode, as drought is declared in Yorkshire, we look at the impact of the dry weather across the country. Scotland faces a wildfire warning – following a 30,000…

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