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Wheat area down 3% while OSR up 11% this harvest, says survey
Farmers Weekly The UK will harvest less wheat this harvest due to more barley and oilseed rape being sown, according to the AHDB’s latest Planting and Variety Survey. The survey, which provides planted area estimates for the…
Yellow shops 3PL unit; negotiations with union yield nothing
Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. announced Thursday after the market closed that it was shopping its logistics unit, Yellow Logistics Inc. The unit, formerly known as HNRY Logistics, specializes in truckload, contract…
Farmer Focus: Times are changing for suckler industry
Farmers Weekly As a family, we have recently decided to sell the suckler herd in favour of contract-rearing heifers for a local dairy farmer. From our point of view, it makes financial sense as external factors outside of our…
Bare land in Wales sees strong demand from farmer buyers
Farmers Weekly Bare land in Wales is seeing strong demand, with farmers the main buyers. While a number of significant equipped farms of scale have come to the market so far this year, the bare land market has provided most…
FW Awards 2023: Contractor of the Year finalists
Farmers Weekly The finalists showed a keen eye for detail, considered investment plans and a focus on staff management – the hallmarks of three very different businesses jostling for this year’s Contractor of the Year title.…
Editor’s view: Three choices for Welsh on tree targets
Farmers Weekly “And how large is your wood?” was the constant refrain at the Royal Welsh Show this week. It is remarkable how political the humble tree has become as it soars up politicians’ priority list, being seen as a…
How Wold Top Brewery barley grower lowered carbon footprint
Farmers Weekly The Yorkshire farming family behind the successful Wold Top Brewery and Yorkshire’s first single-malt whisky distillery is using the latest precision mapping technology in its drive towards a low-carbon,…
Hub Group’s Q2 earnings tumble in ‘challenging’ freight economy
Hub Group’s revenue and profits fell in the second quarter compared to last year’s record-breaking results. The transportation provider reported second-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $1.44, 3 cents better than the…
NS works to move past $803M hit from Ohio derailment
Like the other Class I railroads reporting earnings this month, Norfolk Southern is looking to cut costs and increase productivity in the second half of 2023 to match anticipated market demand. But unlike the other…
Semi-Automated Trucks to Be Tested on Ohio-Indiana Route
Ohio and Indiana have agreed to test partially automated trucks on a 166-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis beginning as early as October.
