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WEED MANAGEMENT

How to tackle the increasing problem of Italian ryegrass

Good crop rotations and cultivations are two critical factors in controlling troublesome Italian ryegrass in arable crops, in tandem with a good residual herbicide regime. These two cultural control methods,…

LAND MARKETS

Farmland in your area 2025: Yorkshire and Humberside

Greater numbers of equipped farms and land sales in Yorkshire and Humber are now taking place off-market. Interest from neighbouring landowners with expansion plans, inter-family changes, and tenants buying their…

TRACTORS

More power for facelifted Fendt 1000 Vario tractors

Fendt has lifted the lid on the fourth generation of its flagship 1000 Vario tractors, which are more powerful, cheaper to run and nicer to drive. Four models make up…

LIVESTOCK

How a beef and sheep farmer learned to set realistic goals

Going on a business course not only helped Matt Jordan to work out what he wanted to do with his family farm – it clarified what he did not aspire…

FARMER FOCUS

Farmer Focus: Cow body condition picking up on autumn grass

Since my last article, we have had the Stirling bull sales, and the Highland Wagyu/Netherton production sale, where I purchased a cow. She is from an imported New Zealand family…

WILL'S WORLD

Will's World: Hedge proud, and not ashamed to say it

Even though in some circles it makes you about as popular as the bloke who shot Bambi’s mother, I really like hedgecutting. And if you didn’t realise that hedgecutting could…

NEWS

Tractor protest seizure fundraiser hits £16,000 in hours

An outpouring of public support has raised more than £16,000 in under 24 hours for two farmers whose tractors were seized during Wednesday’s Budget day protest in London – but…

NEWS

Tractors seized during London farmer protest

A last-minute Whitehall tractor ban on Wednesday’s Budget day protest caused confusion, disruption, and two vehicle seizures, leaving farmers questioning why long-planned arrangements were overturned hours before the demonstration. Farmers…

FARM POLICY

Devon tractor rally shows unity with London protestors

Protestors in Devon staged a “go-slow” tractor parade around Exeter on Wednesday evening (26 November) in a show of support for fellow farmers attending the anti-inheritance tax rally in London…

MEDICINES

Clarity sought on Northern Ireland vet medicine rules

A coalition of veterinary, farming and animal health bodies has urged the UK government to clarify how new post-Brexit arrangements for supplying veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland will operate when…