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LAND MARKETS

Tight supplies are supporting GB cattle prices, with steers gaining nearly 8p in the week ending 26 September, to average 631p/kg deadweight. Heifers rose by 7p to average 627p/kg dw,…

POTATOES

Advice on stabilising soils to boost potato crop resilience

Potatoes can be a destructive crop to soil, but if resilience is built into the wider rotation, potatoes can be less damaging, and soil can recover much quicker. “This really…

OILSEED RAPE

Can British farming afford another neonics moment?

When British farmers lost neonicotinoid seed treatments for oilseed rape, they began an expensive experiment in how to grow a crop without their main defence against cabbage stem flea beetle.…

WEED MANAGEMENT

Nutsedge findings point to gap in invasive weed defences

Yellow nutsedge may still be a relatively unknown weed, but its appearance on a handful of farms is highlighting a much bigger problem: the UK has no coordinated system for…

OTHER CROPS

How a passion for nature turned into bird food business

When Lincolnshire farmer Nicholas Watts first began surveying bird populations, little did he know this was the first stepping stone to a thriving bird food business. Originally, the farm was…

Livestock

 

DAIRY

Dairy farmers who have settled their cows into free-access automated milking need to regularly monitor their list of fetch cows. It’s important to take care that being escorted to milking…

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BALERS AND WRAPPERS

Krone refreshes Big Pack baler line-up with new models

The beefed-up flagship in Krone’s Big Pack square baler line-up is being joined by more “Gen6” models with uprated features and two levels of specification to suit different user needs…

TOOLS

Milwaukee High Output XC5 batteries offer 50% more power

Milwaukee has overhauled its popular 18V 5Ah batteries, giving them 50% more power than their predecessors. These High Output XC5 packs feature tabless technology, which means they are more efficient…

TRACTORS

Revamped Valtra T-series gets new 10-speed powershift

The Finns like to do things their own way. So, despite Valtra’s new T6 being peppered with shared Agco parts, there is a healthy dose of Suolahti engineering in the…

MACHINERY

Telehandler-mounted Mektron Beaver saw tames unruly hedges

One of the first products to launch under PJM Agri’s Mektron machinery brand is the telehandler-mounted Beaver rotary saw. This overgrown-hedge-taming tool is armed with four 600mm blades that are…

LAND MARKETS

Borrowing to fund farm buildings can be done through high street banks or specialist funders and can be though a straightforward loan, hire purchase (HP) or what is commonly termed…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, finance or management question, Farmers Weekly’s expert panel can help. Here, Kate Bell, a partner in Albert Goodman’s farms and estates team, advises on how…

Transition section

PAYMENTS, SCHEMES AND GRANTS

Biologicals, breeding and better evaluation and co-ordination of multiple farm technologies will be three important building blocks of future crop protection strategies for disease control, as the industry continues its…

Opinion

OPINION

On the road to family farming succession, I’ve been channelling my inner Leonardo DiCaprio to forward my ideas onto my father. Not Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio, although I’d love…

Community

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Young farmers are calling for action on access to land, finance and housing amid warnings that agriculture risks losing a generation of potential new entrants. A new paper from the…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, home of the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days. First, here’s your markets (opens as PDF).…

OPINION

The warning this week of a bluetongue-linked fertility crisis in rams is a timely reminder that the cascading effects of this disease are still rippling through the sheep and cattle…

WILL'S WORLD

The majority of my time over the past few weeks has been spent in a tractor cab sowing winter barley, but I did manage to escape for a day last…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

We had a kind winter here at Valetta, no prolonged wet spells like the last couple of winters and stock have done well. Spring growth of grass seed crops has…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

The day my previous article was published, the weather finally turned and we had some very welcome showers. The grass turned green within hours and it hasn’t stopped growing since.…

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NEWS

Clarkson's Farm Season 5 official trailer drops

Amazon has released the official trailer for Clarkson’s Farm 5, with the latest instalment promising high-tech machinery, mounting financial pressure and one of the darkest seasons yet for Diddly Squat…

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Sheep farmer shares breast cancer survival story

A Ceredigion sheep farmer is sharing her breast cancer experience ahead of World Cancer Day on Wednesday 4 February to encourage rural communities to recognise symptoms and seek medical advice…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 326: Red diesel prices and AI

Soaring diesel prices are putting fresh pressure on farm businesses – and the outlook suggests volatility could continue well into 2027. In this episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast, we…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 325: Sifting through the SFI wreckage

Farmers are ploughing up environmental features after thousands were shut out of the Sustainable Farming Incentive when funding ran out less than six hours after applications opened. In this episode…

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