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Compact design for new 8.4m and 9.2m Novacat butterfly mower
Farmers Weekly Farmers without the bank balance, workload or field sizes to justify a set of Pottinger’s 10m V 10000 butterfly mowers now have some slightly smaller V-spec options to consider. The two new models, V 8400…
Farmer Focus: Losing my uncle leads to thoughts of succession
Farmers Weekly When I was a kid at school, that bell used to take forever to ring. School holidays were spent wrestling four-inch augers and looking for fit fields of wheat to get a bit more harvesting done before school got…
Britain’s Fittest Farmer 2023: Meet the finalists
Farmers Weekly After battling it out in three regional qualifiers, the 31 Britain’s Fittest Farmer finalists for 2023 have been announced. The selected competitors will go head to head at the final on 17 September at Tom…
Advice for tenant farmers on common issues
Farmers Weekly Tenants, like all farmers, have many issues to contend with. Common issues that frequently arise include rent rises, changes in tenancy terms and succession. We look at how to deal with some of these thorny…
Advice on how to maintain a tight calving block
Farmers Weekly Achieving a tight calving block is key to the success of a block-calving system. Typically, farms will aim for a calving period of nine to 12 weeks, with 75-80% of eligible cows in-calf in the first six weeks,…
Northants wheat grower cuts his nitrogen by using a drone
Farmers Weekly Will Green is using a drone on his Northamptonshire farm to cut his nitrogen fertiliser use by nearly a third on his winter wheat destined to make breakfast cereal at the nearby Weetabix factory. Multiple…
Gulf & Atlantic Railways reopens Mississippi-to-Tennessee short line
Short-line operator Gulf & Atlantic Railways (GAR) this week announced the reopening of the Grenada Railroad between Mississippi and Tennessee and the acquisition of the 18-mile Pioneer Valley Railroad in Massachusetts.…
A first for Werner: Small group of workers votes to unionize
A tiny step toward unionization has come to one of the biggest truckload carriers in the country, albeit at a subsidiary that isn’t in the longhaul business of the parent company. At three facilities in New Jersey operated…
Panama Canal restrictions are rerouting LPG shipping flows
Panama Canal restrictions are already forcing ships to take multi-week detours via the Suez Canal and Cape of Good Hope. One shipping segment is more exposed to these reroutings than any other: specialized tankers that carry…
Arizona settles federal lawsuit over shipping container border wall
Arizona has agreed to pay $2.1 million to the U.S. government for damage done to federal and tribal land during construction of a roughly 4-mile wall of shipping containers at the Mexico border. The payment will settle a…
