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HEALTH AND SAFETY

Domestic wheat markets remain under pressure, with a bearish global outlook and exchange rates making imports even more competitive versus UK grain. The spot price for ex-farm feed wheat collected…

ARABLE

What's in the latest capital grants offer for arable farmers?

A new round of capital grants worth £150m has opened in England, with arable farmers welcoming the latest opportunity to apply for funding to make environmental improvements. Against a tight…

ARABLE

Adas to pull plug on cereal and oilseed YENs

Crop consultancy Adas has announced it will cease facilitation of the Cereal and Oilseeds Yield Enhancement Networks (YENs) – a move prompted by declining sponsorship. Founded in 2012, YEN has…

ARABLE

Why Herts farming family is moving their business to France

The negative impact on tenant farmers of changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and the greater return on investment to be found overseas are two of the key reasons…

PEST MANAGEMENT

Beet growers to gain from emergency approval for beet moth

Beet growers seeing high levels of beet moth are set to benefit from the emergency authorisation of an insecticide used in maize and carrot crops. Sugar beet growers were counting…

Livestock

 

HEALTH AND WELFARE

A structured approach to preventative vaccination in sheep has driven significant improvements in flock health, antibiotics use and cost efficiency – cutting lameness levels by 66%, among other benefits. This…

MACHINERY

Razorback to import GreenTec hedgecutters and saws

Vegetation management machinery specialist Razorback is supplementing its own reach and rotary mower ranges by importing complementary products from GreenTec of Denmark. GreenTec manufactures hedge and verge cutters, and four-blade…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

Driver's view: Liam Rooney's Claas Quadrant 5300 Evolution

The 5300 Evolution occupies the top spot in Claas’s Quadrant line-up, with a hydraulic pre-chamber that helps create dense 120x90 bales. Two such machines are operated by Shropshire native Liam…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

Driver's view: Will Reed's Krone Big Pack 1290 HDP Gen 5

Now in its fifth generation, the Big Pack 1290 HDP is Krone’s answer to high-density, six-string baling. It’s the frontline machine of choice for Suffolk straw merchant Will Reed of…

BALERS AND WRAPPERS

Driver's view: Blackwater Baling's NH BigBaler 1290 HD

New Holland’s battle for big baling supremacy is led by the 1290 HD, which is the tool of choice for Gavin and Liz Strathern’s Blackwater Baling outfit. Five of them…

LAND MARKETS

Midsummer has brought a range of fully equipped farms and bare blocks of land to the market, ranging in value from £1.5m to more than £10m. The largest offering is…

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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FARM POLICY

The Sustainable Farming Incentive 2024 (SFI) reopens for applications from Monday 7 July – but only for a limited group of eligible farmers who fall into designated exception categories. The…

Opinion

OPINION

If you are not a farmer and you are reading this, you probably represent the problem this industry is facing. Farmers are not valued as part of the process that…

Community

COMMUNITY

A wintery sheep farming scene from Radnorshire has won “Best of Welsh Farming” in this year’s NFU Cymru photo competition. More than 200 photos were submitted, but judges were particularly…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome back to another edition of 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…

OPINION

Freedom Week. That was how the editor of Farmers Weekly described the end of rationing in 1954 – 71 years ago this week – as farmers celebrated the government no longer…

WILL'S WORLD

The present Mrs Evans and I have just spent two days at Groundswell. It’s my favourite farming event, by some distance, and it’ll take me some time to properly process…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

I farm in the north of County Dublin and surrounding areas on a large family farm with seven brothers and their seven sons all working together in one shared business.…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

First-cut silage is now in the clamp. While all went without a hitch, grass yields were well down. I’m hoping for a bulkier second cut, which we will aim to…

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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…

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…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 261: Groundswell 2025 and ÂŁ150m capital grants

In this episode, a former Defra adviser says the government must win back farmers' trust if it is serious about successful agriculture. The government unveils £150m in capital grants for…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 260: Early harvest, and why it's gone quiet on IHT

In this episode, we preview the early start to harvest 2025 as the first combines roll into barley crops. One year after the Labour came to power, we ask why…

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