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CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Outlook 2026: Sugar beet faces lower prices, increased costs

It was written last year that despite the 17.5% price reduction to a headline £33/t, the 2025-26 sugar beet campaign would produce returns for growers that compared favourably to alternative…

FARM POLICY

What are industry leaders' greatest hopes and fears for 2026?

As UK agriculture moves into 2026, we asked the leaders of seven leading farm groups to share their greatest hopes and fears for the year ahead. This is what they…

BEEF

How to make sure suckler cows produce top-quality colostrum

Ensuring suckler cows have at least 14% crude protein in their diet before calving will help antibody production and improve colostrum quality. But the drought in 2025 means that forage…

FARMER FOCUS

Farmer Focus: The benefits of drone mapping

When my non-farming brother first suggested flying a drone over my crops to map them for variable-rate nitrogen, I thought it was pie in the sky stuff. However, we had…

SLURRY TANKERS

Vogelsang develops larger capacity XSplit slurry separator

A new larger capacity screw-type slurry separator from Vogelsang can be installed in a fixed position on a big livestock farm or on a trailer for use at multiple sites.…

COMMUNITY

6 top ways farming raised funds for charity in 2025

Farmers, rural families and industry figures across the UK raised tens of thousands of pounds for health and wellbeing charities through balls, tractor runs, endurance challenges and community events in…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: All the right ingredients for a happy new year

We all know you have to be an eternal optimist to be a farmer, and a quick look back at my first column of 2025 reminds me that I had…

CONTRACTOR COMMENT

Contractor Comment: Second Jaguar mops up late-season grass

The arrival of a second Claas Jaguar 950 forager couldn’t have come at a better time for Josh and Helen Collins, who found themselves facing a formidable autumn workload. Just…