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MEAT MARKETS AND PRICES

Labour’s standing in the countryside has hit rock bottom, with a new poll showing no farmers would vote for the party if a general election were held tomorrow, as anger…

SUGAR BEET

Sugar beet campaign start dates announced for 2025-26

British Sugar has announced the start dates for the 2025-26 sugar beet harvest campaign for each of its four factories, starting on 15 September. See also: How Birds Eye hopes to…

PULSES

How Birds Eye hopes to grow peas for another 60 years

Frozen food company Birds Eye, whose vining pea operations are based in Yorkshire, is going to great lengths to secure the long-term future of local pea growing by developing and…

HARVEST

Harvest 2025: A final push to the finish line

As harvest draws to a close in the South, farmers further north are reporting strong yields and good quality across a mix of winter and spring crops. See also: AHDB…

WEED MANAGEMENT

How to avoid weed burdens after land comes out of SFI

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,…

Livestock

 

PIGS

An on-farm review has enabled beef farmers Jonathan and Delyth Crimes to prioritise areas that will benefit foot health, resulting in easier day-to-day management and a 90% reduction in antibiotics…

MACHINERY

FW Awards: Meet the 2025 Contractor of the Year finalists

Balancing growth with sustainable investments has been key to the success of these three very different firms in the running for this year’s Contractor of the Year Award.  Finalists Gary…

4X4S

Chinese-made GWM Poer300 adds to diesel pickup options

China’s Great Wall Motor Co (GWM) is having another crack at the pickup market after a lengthy absence, with a new diesel-fuelled double-cab model. In markets such as Australia the…

301-400HP

Fendt unveils long-awaited Gen5 800-series Vario tractors

Fendt has injected new life into its 800-series tractors, most notably with a switch of engine supplier that should put an end to the mechanical maladies that have plagued S4…

CULTIVATORS

Horsch expands Fortis tine-and-disc cultivator range

The established Horsch Fortis cultivator design, with its combination of rigid tines and mixing discs, has been extended. The current AS model now includes sizes from 5.6m to 8.9m for…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Many think, wrongly, that succession to an appropriate tenancy is an entitlement or an automatic process. Only Agricultural Holdings Act (AHA) tenancies granted before 12 July 1984 will automatically carry…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Kate Bell of accountant Albert Goodman explains the pros and cons of VAT…

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WEED MANAGEMENT

A new freely available app is helping farmers and landowners monitor biodiversity and manage habitat quality. The app, known as e-Surveyor, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make ecological surveying more…

Opinion

OPINION

The sad news of David Richardson’s death last week arrived just a few hours before the deadline for submitting this column. As one would expect from the ultimate farming journalist,…

Community

WILL'S WORLD

New Hollands are gradually superseding Zetors at Jonathan Hutchinson’s growing Yorkshire dairy business. Farmers Weekly's machinery editor, Oliver Mark, heads over to Whitby to check out what farm kit is…

Week in focus

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), where…

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

As farmers we are eternal optimists. We have to be, we see failure of crops and death of animals, but we are always believing that next time will be better.…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Exciting news: Claire and I have been very fortunate to obtain a tenancy on a farm following the retirement of a neighbour. It has been quite an effort to get…

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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 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…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 267: AHDB harvest error triggers investigation

A data error means the latest harvest progress report over-estimates yields – and triggers an investigation by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. Why wasn't the report right in the…

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