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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…

ARABLE

Can arable farms operate without fossil fuels?

While completing his Nuffield Scholarship, Stuart Oates founded the Fossil Free Farm project, born of his belief that removing fossil fuels from farming is essential for future sustainability. Based at…

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…

Livestock

 

YOUNGSTOCK MANAGEMENT

Love Lamb Week, running from 1-7 September, is marking its 10th year, with Northern Ireland’s sheep farmers taking centre stage in a nationwide celebration of lamb’s quality, versatility, and the…

CEREAL DRILLS

Wider 7.2m and 8m models join Kuhn's Megant tine drill range

Kuhn has unveiled 7.2m and 8m versions of its Megant min-till tine drill, having previously offered it only in 6m mounted guise. Recent challenging autumn drilling campaigns have driven an…

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…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

A recent Supreme Court judgment on the division of assets in a “big money” divorce has been hailed by the legal and accountancy professions as a landmark ruling. While it…

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…

Transition section

ARABLE

Land coming out of some Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) options must be managed carefully to avoid unintended weed burdens in following cash crops. For options such as winter bird cover,…

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…

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COMMUNITY

What stayed with me from US president Donald Trump’s visit to Britain was the exchange at a press conference after a reporter asked: “How important are farmers to a country?” He…

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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

Like most, harvest has been pretty straightforward, dry to very wet conditions meant the wheat was coming off between 14-15% so no need for drying – just some cooling through…

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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