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Farmer Focus: Wet harvest, dreadful peas and a music festival
Farmers Weekly We started harvesting Maris Otter winter barley on Monday 10 July but it has been slow progress since. We cut just 120ha (10% of our combine area) in the first fortnight of harvest with our solitary John Deere…
100hp Axos range returns with new Claas 200-series tractors
Farmers Weekly The “Axos” name is returning to the Claas tractor range with the introduction of a pair of 92hp and 103hp machines destined for loader, field and general yard work on stock farms and for commercial…
Opinion: It’s time to tighten up on spending
Farmers Weekly I have been extraordinarily lucky that the formative years of my business and personal life have been in a period of fundamentally negligible interest rates. My now-wife and I bought and completely rebuilt a…
Pressure on councils poses threat to smallholdings estates
Farmers Weekly Defra’s annual report on county council farms in England shows relatively little change in overall land holdings, but growing pressures on authorities are influencing decisions. Acquisitions and disposals…
Video: Snatch-and-go start to Somerset winter wheat harvest
Farmers Weekly Somerset grower Charles Quick managed to catch a break between the rainstorms to make a start on winter wheat harvest, before this week’s forecast of heavy rain. Cutting into a crop of Graham over the weekend…
Nature-friendly farmers face £120m yearly bill without IHT reform
Farmers Weekly Farmers and landowners who want to create new habitats for nature face being hit with an annual bill of around £120m unless inheritance tax (IHT) rules are changed, new analysis has found. Most farmland,…
Harvest 2023: Only 21% of oilseed rape cut and with poor yields
Farmers Weekly The pain continues for oilseed rape growers with only 21% of the rapeseed area cut by 25 July and yields averaging a poor 3t/ha, according to the first AHDB harvest report. Progress is far behind where it was…
How dairy’s solar fence captures energy at peak demand
Farmers Weekly At Kilmeaden Farm in County Waterford, cows graze either side of a 150m fence that runs north to south the length of one of David Foran’s fields. This is no ordinary fence but a configuration of bifacial solar…
Western Global Airlines lines up bankruptcy financing, report says
Western Global Airlines has struck a deal with creditors for $77 million in financing that would allow it to keep operating while it restructures its debt in a potential bankruptcy, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Speculation…
TFI posts weaker top-, bottom-line results in Q2
Canadian transport company TFI International (NYSE: TFII) on Monday reported revenue, including fuel surcharges, of $1.79 billion in the second quarter, down from $2.42 billion in the 2022 quarter as weaker volumes ate into…
