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TRACTORS

Challenger gets reverse drive conversion for tree pruning

After decades of hauling heavy cultivation kit, a 1990s twin-track crawler has found an unlikely second career in the cider orchards of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The Caterpillar Challenger 55 is…

CROP WATCH

Crop Watch: Protecting OSR yields and weevil damage in pulses

This week's key discussions include protecting yields in flowering OSR crops, fertiliser strategies for milling wheat and the severe pea and bean weevil attacks in the north.  See also: How…

TENANCIES AND RENTS

How greener, longer-term FBTs are gaining momentum

Hot on the heels of a new guidance note from the Farm Tenancy Forum on how to set up a long-term farm business tenancy (FBT), the Duchy of Cornwall has…

COMMUNITY

Farmers deliver more pick-ups to war-torn Ukraine

British farmers and other industry stakeholders have just completed the delivery of another 38 pick-up trucks and vans to Ukraine – the 26th successful mission by UK charity Pick-ups for…

FARMER FOCUS

Farmer Focus: 10 years on, we’re a proper family farm

It has been busy here, but definitely a good busy, rather than a bad busy. We are eight days post due date for our spring-calving suckler cows. So far 40%…

BOVINE TB

Compulsory TB blood testing to expand in England

Compulsory interferon-gamma blood testing will be extended to more cattle herds in England from July, under changes by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha). From 1 July 2026, all…

POULTRY

Advice on protecting flocks from Newcastle disease virus

It was in 2006 when Great Britain last had an outbreak of Newcastle disease. With cases now confirmed in western Europe, it is possible that this highly contagious avian virus…

LIVESTOCK DISEASES

Vaccine ready to counter emerging bluetongue BTV-8 threat

Farmers looking to protect their livestock against the BTV-8 bluetongue variant have another tool at their disposal, with the Syvazul BTV-8 vaccine now available for use in England, Scotland and…