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Chris Bennett: Grain-carting near-miss reminds me of safety
Farmers Weekly For every fatality in farming, there are many near misses. Most of us will have had a near-miss. I certainly know I have. A few years ago, I was corn carting and had to travel through our parkland. I stopped…
Business Clinic: What insurance is needed when contracting?
Farmers Weekly Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Rory Gibson, regional director, Scotland, A-Plan Rural Insurance, highlights the importance of…
Essex farm uses borage and herbage seed to fight blackgrass
Farmers Weekly Borage and herbage seed break crops have helped one heavy land Essex arable farm get on top of blackgrass, with double spring-sown breaks and low soil disturbance seen as the key in its grassweed battle. The…
Why heat detection collars save time in an autumn-block herd
Farmers Weekly Tail paint, once the foundation of block-calving fertility, has been replaced by heat detection collars in one 260-cow herd in Somerset. The old go-to for identifying cows on heat proved to be less effective…
Farmer finds success in launching stonepicker hire firm
Farmers Weekly Stonepicking regularly ranks as one of the most hated jobs in the farming calendar, but for ex-farmworker Carl Hobbs it is proving a profitable side-line business. Keen to break away from a career of farm…
Yellow ceases operations
Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. ceased all operations at 12 p.m. Sunday, according to a notice on the gates at its terminals. Separate internal documents showed the procedures for closing the facilities as well as…
Borderlands: BNSF Railway rethinks plan to build Texas logistics center after community opposition
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: BNSF Railway rethinks its plan to build a Texas logistics center after community opposition;…
Unseasonable rise in demand provides much-needed optimism for transportation providers
Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Volume Index – USA SONAR: OTVI.USA After what has felt like a relentless barrage of bad news, an unseasonable upward trend in truckload tender volumes is giving domestic transportation…
McConnel’s driverless Robocut mower goes electric
Farmers Weekly McConnel has unveiled a battery-powered version of its driverless Robocut mower. Primarily developed for buyers concerned about noise and/or tailpipe emissions, the S300e carries two 48V Vanguard lithium…
Squirrel burgers to top the menu at Welsh Game Fair
Farmers Weekly Well-known Welsh hill farmer Gareth Wyn Jones is on the lookout for a ready supply of grey squirrels, as he prepares to serve them up at the upcoming Welsh Game Fair at the Faenol Estate, near Bangor. The event…
