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Welcome back to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, here are your markets (opens as PDF), with…

HARVEST

Early maize harvest signals tough year for UK farmers

UK maize harvests began three weeks early in parts of the South amid severe drought and record heat, with farmers now facing reduced yields, rising costs, and increased crop disease…

BARLEY

Growers explain appeal of new winter malting barley variety

Winter malting barley growers are opting for a newer variety, which promises higher yields and good disease resistance. Joining the AHDB Recommended List in late 2022, Buccaneer from Elsoms is…

PEST MANAGEMENT

Pea bruchid pest discovered for first time in UK crop

Pulse growers and traders are being urged to report any signs of insect holes in stored peas after the discovery of the first UK case of pea bruchid in a…

ESTABLISHMENT

Farmer aims to cut wheat inputs with home-brewed inoculant

Microbial inoculants will be part of the autumn drilling campaign on a Cambridgeshire farm this autumn, as Tom Pearson takes the next steps in reducing reliance on artificial inputs. See…

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GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT

Dairy herds in the top 25% for genetic merit earn £173 more a cow a year than herds of average genetic merit, a reassessment of the value of profitable lifetime…

CONTRACTOR COMMENT

Contractor Comment: Pricey breakdowns in otherwise easy summer

The lack of rainfall in recent months has treated Josh and Helen Collins to one of the most straightforward summers since they set up their contracting business seven years ago.…

4X4S

Tax savings for latest Toyota Land Cruiser Commercial

A Commercial version of Toyota’s latest Land Cruiser went on sale in August, offering some attractive tax perks over its passenger carrying cousin. As it’s technically a van, those running…

TELEHANDLERS

On test: Neomach's versatile Nova X40 pivot-steer loader

Farms are perennially craving more power and capacity, but for those still mucking out pokey old sheds built in the pitchfork era, size matters. Miniature pivot-steers, with their typical 3m…

ATVS AND UTVS

Polaris Ranger UTV gets slicker transmission shifting

Ranger farm buggy drivers who find themselves tugging or pushing hard at the selector lever to shift into forward or reverse should have an easier time of it, according to…

DIVERSIFICATION

The possibility of an exemption from inheritance tax (IHT) on the grounds that land or buildings are of heritage significance has attracted a lot of media attention in the past…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, planning expert Nicola Quick, a partner with Carter Jonas, sets out how…

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ESTABLISHMENT

Twelve Welsh farms have completed carbon footprint assessments, the results of which have highlighted the importance of understanding their data to drive efficiency and boost consumer appeal. The farms are…

Opinion

OPINION

I’m fed up of hearing the crowing from the rooftops that scale will be the saviour and only possible future for arable farming. I wonder if these people’s calculators are…

Community

BRITAIN'S FITTEST FARMER

As one of the earliest harvests in memory draws to an end in the UK, we thought this image, titled “Strapping on the last load of the night”, was perfect…

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NEWS

Welcome back to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, here are your markets (opens as PDF), with…

OPINION

Writers of editorial columns akin to this one are forever on the lookout for reasons to be gloomy and I frequently find myself on guard against it. Doom-soaked forecasts of…

WILL'S WORLD

A lazy stereotype goes that being a middle-aged man is all ear hair, haemorrhoids and grumbling about young people. While admittedly that is somewhat true, there are a few things…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Harvest started at Southesk on 24 July, a week earlier than usual and, at time of writing we are 70% cut. Unsurprisingly, and having reported this in previous articles, 43…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

I was interviewed recently by food and travel writer Clare Hargreaves. She was drafting a piece to appear on my Just Farmers media profile page. Towards the end of the…

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NUTRITION AND FERTILISER

Why seaweed is key to biological crop market growth

The global market for biological crop protection products is expanding at a rate four-and-a-half times faster than conventional chemistry.  Valued at $8bn (£5.9bn) in 2020, this figure is expected to…

HARVEST

Video: Drought hits milling wheat yields while proteins good

A Berkshire farm manager has been counting the cost of this year’s dry conditions, harvesting stunted and stressed wheat crops.   The Benham Estate, a mixed farm on the outskirts of…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 269: Hay and straw shortage, and moorland blaze

In this episode, farmers are helping firefighters battle a huge moorland blaze in Yorkshire. Farmers are using slurry tankers to deliver water to fire crews fighting flames which have engulfed…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 268: OSR bucks trend, and beet price analysis

Harvest has been hugely variable this summer – with many growers in prime arable areas reporting terrible cereal yields. But has one crop bucked the trend? See also: 3 establishment…

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