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The Senedd’s Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs (Etra) committee has launched an inquiry into troubled red meat promotion body – Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC). The levy board has faced turmoil…

ARABLE

Agronomist's focus on marginal gains delivers for farmer

Winning Farmers Weekly Arable Adviser of the Year 2024 has had a profound impact on Cornwall-based agronomist Richard Tresidder, enhancing both his professional and personal life while earning recognition at…

ARABLE

NFU unveils new combinable crops strategy

The NFU has launched a new strategy, Harvesting Growth, to boost the sustainability and profitability of the UK’s combinable crops sector. The strategy includes five key pillars for growth: tax…

NUTRITION AND FERTILISER

How microbial seed dressing helps cut nitrogen fertiliser

An increasing number of farmers are looking to cut their reliance on bagged nitrogen fertiliser, and trials suggest a microbial seed treatment could help them achieve this without affecting cereal…

ARABLE

Scotland’s first drone crop-spraying service set to launch

Sky-Pin Drones, a Scottish business led by entrepreneur James Braid, will become the first in Scotland to offer advanced crop spraying services using a drone. This new service, set to…

Livestock

 

LIVESTOCK DISEASES

Efforts to arm farmers with tools and knowledge to battle bluetongue are ramping up across the country in an industry-wide vaccination campaign. Led by vets, “Battle Bluetongue” urges farmers to…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2025: Richard Darling’s low-disturbance drill

Richard Darling won third place in our complex category. With wet weather proving to be kryptonite for Green End Farm’s Horsch Sprinter, he decided to build an insurance policy. Previous…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2025: Tom Lamb’s Bale Blaster Pro

Tom Lamb is our intermediate category winner. The Bale Blaster Pro is the latest masterpiece to emanate from the workshop of the Leicestershire farmer, inventor and YouTuber. Fed up with…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2025: Woodchip blower trailer bags top prize

Bagging the top spot in this year’s complex category is Gavin Winters of County Tyrone-based Winters Renewables, who fashioned his own high-spec blower trailer. The driver for this ambitious project…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2025: Craig Grant’s Kinair bean and OSR drill

Aberdeenshire farmer Craig Grant is our complex category runner-up. He built a 3m bean drill after committing to incorporating more home-grown protein into his hens' ration. Rather than start from…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Even as building costs escalate, it is still cheaper, and in many cases more suitable, for farmers to construct a new-build house on their land or convert a redundant barn…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Neil Berry, tax partner at accountant MHA, advises on the importance of…

Transition section

NUTRITION AND FERTILISER

Oxbury Bank has launched a funding facility which incentivises farm businesses to switch to more sustainable farming practices. The specialist agricultural bank is offering an interest rate 1 percentage point…

Opinion

OPINION

I’ve known Matty since he was 27, and he’s known me since the day I was born. We sit together and talk in the hospice. He was once my father’s…

Community

WILL'S WORLD

Farmers Weekly’s highly anticipated health and wellbeing competition, Britain’s Fittest Farmer, is drawing an impressive range of entries from applicants across the country. The competition is designed to encourage farmers…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. It might be soggy, but the air is milder and…

OPINION

This week marked a new low in the relationship between Labour and farm lobbyists. Representatives of the NFU, Country Land and Business Association, Tenant Farmers Association and the Central Association…

WILL'S WORLD

Trains are my favourite mode of transport. I like the sound they make, I like the architecture of the stations, I like the people-watching, I like looking out the window…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Well, Arthur John Barr Blackburn (my married name) was born on 30 January at 7.36am at the Borders General Hospital, Melrose. Arriving at speed and 10 days ahead of schedule,…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

We are about halfway through our sheep scanning, and the results so far are promising. Once again, the Welsh batch of ewes is performing well, with an empty rate of…

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FARM POLICY

London rally: Farm leaders vow to continue IHT fight

Farm leaders have pledged to continue their fight against the government’s plans to introduce a 20% inheritance tax on agricultural assets, vowing to keep up the pressure until Sir Keir…

TAX

Farmers take tractors to supermarkets in IHT protest

Hundreds of frustrated British farmers are taking their tractors to supermarket car parks across the country today (Friday 17 January) in a bold display of frustration over government policies they…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 242: Chink of light on IHT

In this episode, we discuss the possible outcomes after government finally agrees to talks with farm leaders on inheritance tax. Have things gone too far? Were farming protestors right to…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 241: How to improve farm assurance

In this episode, we look at the Leaf Marque - the farm assurance scheme that delivers benefits for consumers and the environment – as well as for farmers. We find…

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