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Farmers Weekly harvest photo competition: Be our cover star
Farmers Weekly There’s still time to enter the Farmers Weekly annual harvest photo competition – giving one lucky winner the opportunity to see their work on the magazine’s front cover. Uploading your pictures is quick and…
Getting the most out of Group 4s
Farmers Weekly KWS Dawsum has delivered a stellar performance since its launch in 2022 and is now the UK’s most popular high yielding wheat with the new soft Group 4 KWS Zealum waiting in the wings. KWS Dawsum’s combination…
Opinion: Farming legend Temple Grandin reviews handling system
Farmers Weekly I can only describe it as the agricultural equivalent of having Tiger Woods staring at you while you take a swing at the local driving range. We’ve run tens of thousands of cattle through our handling system…
Farmer Focus: Liming, spreading muck and drilling OSR
Farmers Weekly Harvest is in full swing, but it is quite a different affair to last year, with opportunism being be the key word so far. This was our second earliest harvest starting winter barley on 17 July. We have bagged…
Sharing livestock machinery: Advice and options
Farmers Weekly Justifying a new tractor or baler for a beef and sheep enterprise on a family farm is becoming increasingly hard as costs inflate to erode margins. The depreciation and power and machinery cost averaged more…
WIYS: UK expat reveals highs and lows of Canadian hay business
Farmers Weekly Hay farmer and trader Mike Faulkner emigrated from the UK to Canada more than 20 years ago. Yet even today most of his kit still has a European flavour. Farmers Weekly asked Mike to talk us through his…
In-App Weather Alerts Prevent Accidents and Nuclear Verdicts
In-app weather warnings increase truck driver safety and satisfaction and reduce accidents and insurance claims. Read how in this blog.
Container volumes grow in July for South Carolina Ports
Despite an often-reported slowdown in U.S. imports, July volumes for South Carolina Ports rose both year over year (y/y) and sequentially, the port authority said Monday. SC Ports handled 208,134 twenty-foot equivalent units…
Appeals court chides STB for failures in Uinta Basin Railway project review
A three-person panel of judges determined that the Surface Transportation Board’s review of a planned project to construct an 85-mile-long rail line in the Uinta Basin in Utah that would carry crude oil was insufficient and…
Small increase in DOE/EIA diesel price masks underlying volatility
In a market of wild volatility, the latest weekly diesel price from the Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration almost looks like owners of retail outlets simply couldn’t figure out what to do next. Wholesale…
