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Farmer Focus: I’ve ordered a direct drill before Groundswell
Farmers Weekly The window has now shut for hoeing our combinable crops. We managed to get all the spring crops done, but due to the wet March (apart from most of our winter wheat/bean bi-crop), winter cereals slipped through…
Oilseeds near £350/t as large EU crop weighs on market
Farmers Weekly The outlook for UK oilseeds markets remains bearish in the short term with a large crop expected in Europe and mixed global demand. Total oilseeds production in the EU-27 is projected to be 33.7m tonnes by the…
5 hot tips for a successful harvest
Farmers Weekly For any arable farm, harvest is one of the most important times of the year. It’s also one of the most labour-intensive, with long working hours night and day and a huge amount of hard work involved. Poor…
Fuel price outlook: Red diesel steady but volatility remains
Farmers Weekly Fuel prices are at a level that may tempt many to fill the tank, having reached a 22-month low in mid-May and putting on just a couple of pence since then. However, offers to fix prices forward are hard to…
Video: How a lowland farm is preparing for low-methane sheep
Farmers Weekly Results from the first UK farm to test methane emissions in sheep using portable accumulation chambers have shown they were producing on average about 20g/day of methane and 1.2kg/day of carbon dioxide. The…
$140 Million Ticketed for New Border Crossing at Otay Mesa
San Diego transportation officials celebrated June 13 the anticipated award of about $140 million in state funding to help complete the Otay Mesa East Port of Entry.
Demand for global supply chain intelligence continues to rise
Persevering through disruptions such as the drought affecting container ship traffic in the Panama Canal, as well as future crises, involves building trusted networks of data to map the global supply chain, say Altana…
Austin Barbecue Great LeAnn Mueller Dies at 51
Ali Clem https://austin.eater.com/2023/6/14/23761318/leann-mueller-death-obituary-la-barbecue-austin
Rail unions urge Biden to keep current STB chair at helm
Rail labor groups are rallying around Surface Transportation Board Chairman Marty Oberman, saying calls to strip him of his position misdiagnose the root cause of the industry’s woes: operational challenges associated with…
The Starbucks Union Claims the Company Is Taking Down Pride Decorations
Pride decorations in June 2020. Noam Galai/Getty Images The coffee chain denies the allegations, despite accounts from workers in a number of different stores Starbucks has long portrayed itself as a queer-friendly…
