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Family of farming-mad kid strike gold on tractor hunt
Farmers Weekly With the school summer holidays in full swing, parents of farm and tractor-mad children have appealed on social media to find local farmers and contractors at work in the fields, in the hope of catching some of…
Reworked Toyota Land Cruiser has diesel and hybrid power
Farmers Weekly Toyota has unveiled an updated version of its venerable Land Cruiser off-roader, featuring a stronger chassis, a new eight-speed automatic transmission and the option of a hybrid powertrain. Looks have been…
Farmer Focus: Forage rape emerges beautifully with rain
Farmers Weekly Sorry, for the start of harvest I am not going to talk about the weather again. It has been a “mainly stop and little start” harvest. We have personally had nothing ready to cut, but have been busy helping our…
Farmers Weekly Awards 2023: Livestock Adviser of the Year finalists
Farmers Weekly A drive to improve the health of the nation’s dairy herds, enhance sustainability and cut carbon emission was a central theme for all this year’s finalists as they sought to increase the efficiency of milk…
Transition Farm Walk visits carbon-negative arable unit
Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly Transition Farmer Andy Bason provided an insight into his carbon-negative, Hampshire-based arable unit during a recent farm walk. The Transition Farm Walk saw more than 80 visitors descend on…
Statutory nutrient mitigation credits – opportunities for farmers
Farmers Weekly Farmers can be both suppliers and buyers of Natural England’s (NE) statutory nutrient mitigation credits in the Tees catchment. This is the first area in which NE is offering the credits to developers to help…
This Week in Farming: Mules, off-roaders and harvest latest
Farmers Weekly Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, our round-up of Farmers Weekly’s best features and stories from the past seven days. Here are five of the biggest topics, as selected by the editor, and…
How brothers secured future with second autumn-block herd
Farmers Weekly A second dairy unit set up on neighbouring arable land has given two brothers a long-term future on their Leicestershire family farm Martin Wade and his sons, George and Ben, ran at Honeypot Farm, a 350-cow…
FMCSA will consider rollbacks to truck driver rest-break rules
WASHINGTON — Regulators will consider rolling back federal preemption decisions on truck driver work rules by issuing waivers to those who can show that stricter state rules in California and Washington are more safe. In a…
Pending rail car retirements, high scrap rates tighten equipment market
Despite lingering macroeconomic uncertainties, rail equipment manufacturers are upbeat about the rest of 2023 and early 2024 based on factors that appear to be supporting the market for rail car leasing and the production of…
