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CROP WATCH

Crop Watch: Spring drilling and T1 wheat fungicide strategies

A return to colder temperatures and unsettled weather are adding to challenges of managing forward cereals crops and staying on top of the disease pressure.  Our Crop Watch agronomists report…

DAIRY

Spring calving index pivots towards grazing-based systems

Planned revisions to the spring calving index are expected to change the type of animal dominating the male and female rankings. From April, producers running grazing-based, spring-calving dairy herds will…

COMMUNITY

Farmers take on 'mad' 900-mile route with vintage tractors

Three farmers are set to journey from John O’Groats to Land's End on a trio of less-than-trusty steeds. Lancashire natives Harry Shaw and Liam Cooper, along with Cumbrian James Rawsthorn,…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Business Clinic: How do we set up permissive access?

Whether it’s a legal, tax, financial or management question, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Richie Rees, legal director in Thrings’ agricultural litigation team, outlines what's involved in granting…

NEWS

Red diesel now just for Labour-voting farmers, Starmer says

Only farmers who vote Labour at the next election will retain access to red diesel, prime minister Keir Starmer has announced. The move, intended to reward party loyalists and help…

FARMER FOCUS

Farmer Focus: Can I hold out for bulkier first-cut silage?

Well, haven’t things changed in five weeks? Trump decides to bomb Iran and act like a petulant child when no one wants to join him. Aside from that, it will…

DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Oilseed rape samples needed for light leaf spot research

Oilseed rape growers can help improve understanding of the crop’s number-one disease threat, light leaf spot, by sending in affected leaf samples before the end of April. A new farmer-led…