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CRIME

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first Spending Review has delivered a better-than-expected outcome for Defra, easing fears of severe budget cuts to green farming and environmental support. The Treasury settlement for Defra…

VARIETY SELECTION

Cereals 2025: DSV looks to fast track new breadmaking wheats

Plant breeder DSV is looking to fast track the development of new breadmaking wheat varieties using genomic prediction which has produced the candidate Group 1 wheat variety Arlington. Wheat breeder…

SOILS

Cereals 2025: UK start-up offers soil and nutrient software

A new soil mapping and nutrient management software called Soil Benchmark aims to make record-keeping and compliance assessment simpler on farm. The UK-based start-up offers soil, manure and nutrient management…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Cereals 2025: Growers given alert for yellow rust next season

Winter wheat growers are being urged to be vigilant about yellow rust next season and be prepared to use an early spring fungicide after a new race of the disease…

VARIETY SELECTION

Cereals: Growers get early access to new beet varieties

UK beet growers can now buy seed directly from a key plant breeder, giving them earlier access to next-generation varieties together with a wide range of seed treatments. The move…

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YOUNGSTOCK MANAGEMENT

A pocket data management system combined with automated handling has improved workflow and decision making for sheep farmer Tom Hadley. With a flock of Romneys, together with shearing and other…

SPRAYING AND SPREADING

Cereals 2025: Budget Turkish sprayer maker targets UK market

Hailing from the central Turkish city of Konya, crop sprayer maker Ontar had made the journey to this year’s Cereals event with the hope of breaking into the UK market.…

SPRAYERS

Cereals 2025: Fendt Rogator 600 gets performance upgrades

Fendt has treated its Rogator 600 sprayers to a series of upgrades with the hope of improving performance in tough conditions. The Gen 2 models now come with electronic, pneumatic…

SPRAYERS

Cereals 2025: Agroma returns with low-cost trailed sprayers

Greek sprayer maker Agroma is having another tilt at the UK market, having previously built machines for FarmGem and sold them through Lincolnshire outfit S&K Sprayer Services. Its trio of…

CULTIVATORS

Cereals 2025: GT Engineering shows spring tine cultivator

A spring tine cultivator is the latest addition to a growing line-up of equipment offered by Lincolnshire-based GT Agricultural Engineering. Available in working widths from 3m to 8m, it packs…

BNG

It is not uncommon for a dispute over as little as £2,000/year in farm rent to cost the losing party £40,000 or more when that difference of opinion is settled…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here Duncan Sigournay, partner and head of Thrings agriculture team, advises on a…

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FARM POLICY

Farmers and green groups have raised alarm over the potential for deep cuts to Defra’s budget in this week’s Spending Review – with fears that key farm support schemes could…

Opinion

OPINION

British farmers have staged an impressive number of tractor rallies and demonstrations in recent months, triggered by a host of seemingly hostile government policies. But Continental farmers have their grievances…

Community

YOUNG FARMERS

Jeremy Moody, John Thorley and George Dunn have one thing in common – they have all won the coveted Farmers Weekly Lifetime Achievement award. And now we’re on the hunt…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your quickfire guide to the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days First, here’s your markets (opens…

OPINION

At last, a glimmer of clarity as to how much spending power Defra has for the three financial years from April 2026 onwards. The combined budget for the Sustainable Farming…

WILL'S WORLD

What is it they say? Leave the farm once a week, the county once a month, and the country once a year. I’m not sure it fits particularly well with…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

For the past eight weeks I’ve been doing a rain dance every day, and it’s finally paid off. We got nearly 30mm of rain over the past week. This was…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Feeding ewes haylage in May is a first for us here at Gelston. We have split all our fields into fours and started to rotationally graze, to try and make…

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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…

AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION

Transition webinar: Renewable energy key points to consider

Renewable energy can displace fossil fuel use, cutting input costs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Farmers Weekly Transition project webinar panel. But with a number of renewables…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 258: Spending Review, beef, and Cereals

In this episode, UK farm leaders voice dismay after three major British supermarkets start selling beef from Australia, Uruguay and New Zealand. Is the government's spending review really better than…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 257: Spending review - likely impact on farming

In this episode, we look at the likely impact of the government's spending review on UK farming and the environment. We have a sneak preview of this month’s Cereals event…

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