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Farmer Focus: Fear tree-planting concerns fell on deaf ears
Farmers Weekly We’ve just got back from the Royal Welsh Show. It was another fabulous show where everyone connected to farming, from Wales and beyond, came together to celebrate our existence. In a recent survey carried out…
Contrasting north-eastern farms come to market
Farmers Weekly A mid-summer launch of almost 1,800 acres in Northumberland brings Crow Hall Farm to the market. The holding is in the Tyne Valley, between Bardon Mill and Haydon Bridge, about 30 miles west of…
Pyrethroid spray approved for flax beetle in linseed
Farmers Weekly Farmers looking to establish linseed next spring can now use a key pyrethroid spray to manage flax flea beetle. Premium Crops has secured an extension of authorisation for minor use (Eamu) from the Chemicals…
Will’s World: Why I’ll never tire of the Royal treatment
Farmers Weekly From the four corners of Wales the faithful come in convoys of pickups, Land Rovers, wagons, stock trailers and caravans. Over the mountains and along the valleys, through villages and small towns, past chapels…
How to deliver landscape-scale change through farm cluster groups
Farmers Weekly Farmer cluster groups are meeting local environmental priorities both on their own farms and beyond their boundaries. The term “cluster” was adopted, because it describes how members of these groups are…
450ha woodland core to low-cost dairy-beef system
Farmers Weekly Agroforestry has gone from a novel idea to a core part of a resilient farming model at Yeo Valley in Somerset, with 405ha (1,000 acres) of woodland grazing targeted by 2028. British Friesian and Angus-cross…
Analysis: What’s the future for the UK pork sector?
Farmers Weekly Pig prices have begun to recover in 2023 and producers are starting to recoup some of the losses as they return to a more profitable position. Finished pigs are selling for about 225p/kg deadweight, and the…
Editor’s View: This is peak danger time for farm accidents
Farmers Weekly This week and next will be among the busiest in the year’s arable farming calendar as a break in the weather looks set to permit folk to catch up on the harvest schedule. The long days ahead will be a necessity…
Iowa Champ Mindy Rathjens Eager for Debut at NTDC
For Mindy Rathjens, everything clicked once she got behind the wheel at the Iowa Truck Driving Championships. The 3-axle winner and state grand champion now sets her sights on nationals.
HMM hit by ‘intensified’ imbalance between supply and demand
South Korean ocean carrier HMM’s second-quarter net profit plunged 89% year over year. HMM provides little color in its earnings releases and reports in South Korean won. It reported Thursday that Q2 net profit was KRW 313…
