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INPUT MARKETS AND PRICES

Welcome to a bumper Easter edition of This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. April showers, following a very…

CROP WATCH

Crop Watch: Maize drilling and OSR flowering sprays

The kind conditions have seen a start to maize drilling in Northern Ireland and in the South West, with rain bringing welcome moisture for the pre-emergence herbicides. However, the rain…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Signature seed dressing helps grow fungicide-free crops

Irish farmer Tom Tierney has been no-till farming for a decade and is using a specialist seed dressing to kick-start crops into action and grow them without fungicides. The signature…

PULSES

5 key factors for maximising pea yields

A multi-noded, tall-stemmed plant with deep roots is the key to farmers raising pea yields, according to a new pea growth guide. Researchers estimate that peas could yield 7-8t/ha on…

POTATOES

Updated guidance for virus-free potatoes released

A document designed to help the seed potato industry tackle damaging viruses has been updated this spring, making it easier for growers to understand and implement critical control measures. Aphid-borne…

Livestock

 

HEALTH AND WELFARE

A group of Pembrokeshire farmers have joined forces to support each other in dealing with bovine tuberculosis (TB). Forming the first Agrisgop group to focus on TB, the 15 farmers…

FORAGE WAGONS

Driver's view: George Reed's wide-body Fendt Tigo 65 XR

Agco completed a multimillion-pound deal for Lely’s forage machinery division in 2017, giving it access to a vast range of mowers, tedders, rakes, balers and forage wagons. The latter have…

ROAD LEGAL

Harvest workforce hit by seven-month delays for tractor tests

Substantial delays of up to seven months for young farmers looking to book tractor tests could leave some businesses being short-staffed this harvest. Arable enterprises often employ young harvest workers…

FORAGE WAGONS

Driver's view: James Ireland's Pottinger Jumbo 5340

Pottinger introduced a new Jumbo model last summer, promising the features of its big 7000- and 8000-series forage wagons in a cheaper and more compact package. There are six twin-axle…

FORAGE WAGONS

Driver’s view: Andrew Whitelaw’s Strautmann Giga-Vitesse

As the mid-spec model in Strautmann’s forage wagon line-up, the Giga-Vitesse packs plenty of high-end features without the added expense of pivoting headboards found on fancier Magnon machines. At the…

PAYMENTS, SCHEMES AND GRANTS

Farmer Alison wanted a land diversification option that would support her sustainable farming practices and her ongoing nature restoration work. After learning about Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), Alison chose to…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Joe Spencer, a partner at accountant MHA, advises on how farm or…

Transition section

AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION

Irish farmer Tom Tierney has been no-till farming for a decade and is using a specialist seed dressing to kick-start crops into action and grow them without fungicides. The signature…

Opinion

OPINION

Imagine my surprise a few weeks ago to find that the farm truck was no longer where I thought I’d parked it in the yard. After I’d twice checked that…

Community

YOUNG FARMERS

Keeping a hungry Somerset anaerobic digestion plant properly fed and operational requires a fleet of high-output, modern kit. What’s in Your Shed? takes a tour of Bragg Farming’s machinery sheds…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome to a bumper Easter edition of This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. April showers, following a very…

OPINION

In the ongoing debate over where farm policy should end up, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are each, in their own way, striving to do something new. Apart from…

WILL'S WORLD

I’ve dealt with a considerable amount of ball ache lately. Not the usual variety, like farm assurance inspections or whole-herd TB tests, or even a burst hydraulic pipe at 5.05…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

I’m very happy with how spring drilling has gone, as I'm sure many of you are. Around the middle of March some fields were still a bit too wet, but…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

Springtime is always a busy time of year. For every job that gets ticked off the list, another two get added. The ground is hard and, while there isn’t a…

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COMMUNITY

Video: 90 and Counting: Mixed farmer, Frankie Turner, Leics

Fourth-generation farmer Frankie Turner, 18, tells Farmers Weekly about working with her family, her studies and her passion for welding. I live on Grange Farm just north of Leicestershire. We…

NEWS

Video: Farmers To Action stages ‘Say No to Labour’ protests

More than 1,000 tractors and farmers across the UK put aside their busy spring schedules – drilling, lambing and calving – to take part in a nationwide protest against what…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 250: Endangered hedges and bonanza beef vision

In this episode, we get to grips government grants to fund on-farm innovation and technology to improve productivity. With British Beef Week around the corner (23-30 April), we run the…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 249: Farm profitability and yellow rust

In this episode, the government appoints former NFU president Minette Batters to lead a Defra review to solve farming's "profitability problem". Her appointment – by Defra secretary Steve Reed –…

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