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TENANCIES AND RENTS

More than 5,000 farmers in England will get a one-year reprieve on their Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier agreements, after months of pressure forced Defra to extend vital environmental support due…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

OSR growers alerted to the threat of phoma leaf spot

Oilseed rape growers are being urged to examine crops for phoma leaf spot as the current wet weather is likely to encourage a disease which can cut yields by up…

CROP MANAGEMENT

Meet the new Arable Insights farmer panel for 2025-26

The Arable Insights farmer panel, our barometer on arable issues, is back for the 2025-26 cropping season with six new farmers from across the country. Here is an introduction to…

CROP MANAGEMENT

Integrating sheep into arable rotations - how to get started

The return of the “golden hoof” to arable rotations has gained momentum as more farmers embrace livestock integration as one of the key principles in a “regenerative” system. Potential benefits…

HARVEST

Scottish growers record bumper crop for 2025 harvest

Total cereals production surpassed 3.2m tonnes in Scotland this year, according to provisional figures published by the Scottish government. This represents an increase of 8% year on year and puts…

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POULTRY

From 27 sheep and a handful of beef just over a decade ago, Cumbrian tenant farmers Matt and Lissy Stephenson have established a 900-cow herd yielding 13,400 litres a cow…

4X4S

Latest Dacia Duster 4x4 gets the cargo carrier treatment

The third-generation Dacia Duster introduced in 2024 has been given a commercial conversion, changing the family-friendly SUV into a dedicated cargo carrier. Dacia did the same with earlier generations of…

CEREAL DRILLS

SMS Agro develops 4m direct drill for rejuvenating pasture

Czech agricultural machinery manufacturer SMS Agro has developed a simple trailed air seeder with disc coulters for rejuvenating tired pastures with fresh growth. The 4m Smart 400 is a trailed…

TRACTORS

McCormick cranks up its X8 VT-Drive tractor to 340hp

Argo Tractors has turned up the wick on the 6.7-litre FPT NEF engine that powers its range-topping X8 series tractors to produce a new flagship model. The X8.634 VT-Drive packs…

FORAGERS

Driver's view: Contractor rates Claas Jaguar 1200

Demand for more chopping capacity has driven Claas to join John Deere and Krone in the 1,000hp forage harvester division, as it looks to deliver the throughput expected by mega…

PLANNING PERMISSION

Solar developers continue to look for sites and interested landowners can do much to put themselves in the best position to proceed. Interest in potential wind turbine sites is also…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Nick Curnock, associate partner, Carter Jonas, advises on a neighbour agreement for…

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FARM POLICY

A Welsh Conservative motion to scrap the Welsh government’s proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) was rejected in the Senedd yesterday, with Labour and Plaid Cymru members voting against the proposal.…

Opinion

OPINION

And so my letter to Red Tractor began… “To whom, I believe, it should concern,” I wrote. “Please think outside the prescribed audit boxes for a few minutes to consider…

Community

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

The National Harvest Service was held today (16 October) at Westminster Abbey, drawing 2,200 guests, including the Queen, to mark World Food Day and the end of British Food Fortnight.…

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

“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” This was the phrase that sprang to mind amid a stampede of emails from lobby groups on Wednesday (15 October), taking…

WILL'S WORLD

I read a very unsettling article recently, detailing just how much the price of our weekly groceries has gone up over the past few years. As a family of six,…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Apparently, in the words of a famous Cambridgeshire YouTuber and farmer (James Peck), October drilling is for losers. Well, I’m not sure if that’s true or not, but we did…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

“Make sure you’ve got a farm to go back to.” It was 2019 at the British Charolais annual general meeting, and I had just been voted in as chairman. That…

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NEWS

10 hare coursers evade police in dramatic chase

A group of 10 men suspected of hare coursing evaded Cambridgeshire police in a dramatic car chase on Saturday (11 October). The men were travelling in a four-by-four vehicle, with…

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…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 276: Banned Red Tractor ad - what can we learn?

In this episode, we examine the lessons to be learned after the UK advertising watchdog bans a TV ad for Red Tractor farm assurance. We look at the future for…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 275: Movement on IHT policy anticipated

Government ministers are said to be looking at easing plans to impose inheritance tax on farmers. Civil servants are reportedly looking again at increasing the proposed threshold which would exempt…

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