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A report which highlights significant barriers preventing young people from entering and thriving in farming has been revealed at the Royal Welsh Show, suggesting joint action between governments and industry…

AWARDS

FW Awards: Meet the 2025 Arable Adviser of the year finalists

This year’s finalists bring a diverse mix of strengths – from hands-on potato expertise and regenerative precision farming to data-led strategies for building farm resilience. The judges Edward Vipond Suffolk…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Wheat yellow rust ratings set to fall for next season

Winter wheat growers are being warned that disease resistance ratings for yellow rust are set to fall this summer 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…

Livestock

 

HEALTH AND WELFARE

Wales risks losing its rural lifeblood unless urgent action is taken to halt a worrying fall in livestock numbers, the chairwoman of Hybu Cig Cymru (Meat Promotion Wales) has warned.…

CEREAL DRILLS

Horizon Ag takes mounted MDSX no-till drill to 9m

Having taken the trailed DSX no-till drill to 9m last year, Horizon Agricultural Machinery has followed suit with the mounted variant, now available in 7.5m, 8m and 9m sizes for…

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…

AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION

Attention to detail has been critical as Raby Estate has changed direction and set about creating a more robust and commercially viable business, with an environmentally sustainable farming enterprise at…

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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AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION

Employee recruitment and retention is tough across agriculture, from large farming estates to smaller family farms. From the generational shift to workers seeking non-manual work, together with the sometimes unsociable…

Opinion

OPINION

I’m not particularly “techie”, but fortunately I run with bright young staff. Any setting up or day-to-day running of complicated kit can easily be grasped by them and, eventually, taught…

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WILL'S WORLD

Buy quality kit and make it last. That’s the machinery policy at 1,250ha Neatham Manor Farm, near Alton, Hampshire. Farm manager Matthew Ashton talks through the Neatham fleet. See also: On…

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

No one was terribly surprised by this week’s news that the Treasury will press on with its plan to reform inheritance tax (IHT) with virtually no changes to what had…

WILL'S WORLD

It feels like I’ve been waiting for rain almost as long as I’ve been waiting for Wales to win a rugby game. And, much to my equal parts relief and…

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

July is one of the months I look forward to most. It signals the end of a pretty busy period that began back in April, where calving and lambing led…

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Cautious welcome for SFS but BPS reduction will bite

The Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), launched a week before the Royal Welsh Show, was cautiously welcomed, but farming leaders warned that next year’s 40% Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) cut will…

NEWS

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…

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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