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MARKETS AND TRENDS

Conservative shadow environment minister Victoria Atkins has been accused of “weaponising” farming suicides in a row over inheritance tax proposals, as she called for Defra secretary Steve Reed to change…

VARIETY SELECTION

New OSR varieties offer regional differences

Eight new winter oilseed rape varieties come into the mix this year, after five hybrids and one conventional variety joined the AHDB Recommended List 2025-26, along with two clubroot-resistant types.…

CROP WATCH

Crop Watch: Dry weather prompts T2 fungicide queries

The T2 flag leaf fungicide spray is now the focus for winter wheat crops. Dry conditions over the last month have kept disease pressure low, so much so that product…

OILSEED RAPE

Oilseed rape grower sees helping hand from SFI

Hampshire oilseed rape grower Dick Hall is earning £369/ha from environmental payments, allowing the crop to rival winter wheat for profitability and making rapeseed the best break crop he can…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

New wheat fungicide to offer growers unique mode of action

Wheat growers are to benefit from a new fungicide for cereal crops, after confirmation that Adama’s latest active undergoing Chemicals Regulation Division approval has a unique mode of action. This…

Livestock

 

BOVINE TB

Meat processor Cranswick is carrying out a detailed investigation at one of its pig farms and has suspended all staff at the location, after significant animal welfare concerns were exposed.…

SLUG PELLET SPREADERS

New fan drive sees Stocks Ag Jet go wider and faster

A new version of the Turbo Jet 10 from Stocks Ag has hydraulic drive to a 1,400cfm fan to deliver increased airflow, enabling faster forward speeds, wider working widths and…

CEREAL DRILLS

How Limavady farmer built versatile drill on the cheap

Tired of Limavady’s persistent rainfall hampering the use of his trailed disc drill, Alistair Craig hatched a plan to build a less weather-dependent alternative. Key criteria were that it should…

CEREAL DRILLS

Horizon adds 3m and 4m rigid-frame DSX direct drills

Grain and oilseeds growers – as well as contractors – operating in smaller fields and across fewer hectares are being catered for by 3m and 4m rigid-frame additions to Horizon…

4X4S

KGM Rexton Commercial SUV offers lower tax for businesses

For anyone that hasn’t caught up yet, Ssanygong is called KGM these days and it’s got a new commercial-spec version of its Rexton SUV. Just like the passenger model, this…

TAX

A raft of issues including finance, employment and other costs, supply chain problems, climate change and international trade friction all combine to make business increasingly volatile. Challenges can come from within,…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Ted Beale, Associate Partner with Carter Jonas Rural, advises on the merits…

Transition section

AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION

This month, our Arable Insights farmers are considering all the options as they ponder the future of farming. With government support for both food production and nature recovery paused in…

Opinion

OPINION

There is always pleasure to be taken in a landlord-tenant relationship where there is goodwill on both sides and a desire to collaborate. As journalists, too often the stories we…

Community

COMMUNITY

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same” – so wrote Rudyard Kipling, in his seminal 1895 poem If. I’ve always particularly…

Week in focus

NEWS

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

OPINION

There is always pleasure to be taken in a landlord-tenant relationship where there is goodwill on both sides and a desire to collaborate. As journalists, too often the stories we…

WILL'S WORLD

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same” – so wrote Rudyard Kipling, in his seminal 1895 poem If. I’ve always particularly…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Norfolk is living up to its name as the driest county in the UK. Recent rainfall has amounted to just 12mm on 15 April, with nothing since. To make matters…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

I was hoping for a “normal” year, but ewe mastitis after turnout has been awful. There’s only been one E coli case, but about 25 caused by Staph aureus. Caught…

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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…

YOUNG FARMERS

Video: 90 and Counting - Milly Garnett, Ayrshire

In the penultimate article in our series focusing on a farmer born in each of the decades since Farmers Weekly first published in the 1930s, we meet young farmer Milly…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 253: What next for SFI?

In this episode we look at the future of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) agri-environment scheme. Natural England head of agriculture Peter Craven tells us the scheme will return –…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 252: Crops swelter as temperatures soar

Record-breaking temperatures see crops sweltering in the spring sunshine. A worry or just another challenge for arable growers? UK former home secretary James Cleverly and Save British Farming campaigners say…

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