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Opinion: Footpath ‘horror stories’ simply stoke division
Farmers Weekly Horror stories about people being trampled by cows are not what you want to read just before a holiday which will almost certainly involve encounters with cattle. Unfortunately, the press was recently full of…
Farmer Focus: Kicking myself about vaccine slip
Farmers Weekly By the start of July, we were about six weeks into calving, or half way. We have a summer calving bias of summer-born heifers, with beef at either end of this period and nothing born in February. We have no…
Royal Welsh Show makeover focuses on great visitor experience
Farmers Weekly Visitors to this year’s Royal Welsh Show are promised a “fresh outlook’’ after what had been a challenging period, both during and after the Covid pandemic. In a year of firsts, the show will present a food and…
Photo of the Week: Cutting winter barley on Dorset coast
Farmers Weekly The Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 gallery has been flooded with fantastic entries this week, including this stunning shot taken from Higher Farm on the Dorset Coast. Andy Sprake captured his combine cutting…
Research quantifies role of cover crops in carbon capture
Farmers Weekly Five years of trial work in Northamptonshire have shown that cover crops in a direct drilling system removed 27t/ha of carbon dioxide equivalents, highlighting their role in reducing a farm’s carbon footprint.…
Selling your farm: How to prepare for viewings
Farmers Weekly Most farms for sale meet strong demand, but there are some basics that can help with marketing. First impressions are important, so time and effort invested in preparing for viewings can pay off. “Undertake…
Farmer Focus: Not quite ready for early harvest
Farmers Weekly Harvests are definitely getting earlier. The good intentions to have everything sorted and ready in plenty of time are failing with annoying regularity. In theory, by the time you read this we should have…
Strong sales for new tractors and second-hand kit in 2023
Farmers Weekly Registrations of UK agricultural tractors over 160hp increased 27% on the year during the first six months of 2023, according to the latest figures from the Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA). This was in…
Sky EasyDrill gets Stocks Avadex applicator mounting kit
Farmers Weekly A comprehensive mounting kit for a Stocks Ag Turbo Jet applicator enables Avadex herbicide granules to be broadcast from the Sky EasyDrill direct air seeder to combat blackgrass and other grassweeds. The kit…
Opinion: I’ve become a ‘heritage’ farming character at 50
Farmers Weekly My grandparents often pointed out that life passes quickly. As a teenager, when a 30-minute Latin lesson felt like a month, I had no idea what they were talking about. That time of my life was just one long,…
