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New hybrid barley variety brings yield and disease benefits
Farmers Weekly Cow about that! The new hybrid barley feed variety that is super easy to grow. Newly recommended for 2023, SY Nephin is a high-performance hybrid barley variety combining high yield, excellent specific weight…
Food at Home Prices Unchanged in June: CPI Report
Food prices saw a small increase (+0.1%) in June according to the recently released CPI report. This comes on the heels of May’s 0.2% increase. Food at home The food at home index was unchanged during the month of June after…
Finished prices drop back as more spring lambs come to market
Farmers Weekly Larger numbers of new-season lambs have started to come forward at auction markets, putting pressure on finished prices. The new-season lamb liveweight SQQ averaged 292.65p/kg for the week ending 11 July, down…
Vicon’s non-stop baler-wrapper now comes in Kubota colours
Farmers Weekly As Kubota’s distribution network in Britain continues to grow, so the number of products available to those dealers from the Kverneland Group sister company is increasing. Among the latest is the non-stop…
Appeal for wheat brown rust sample as population shift suspected
Farmers Weekly Growers and agronomists are urged to send brown rust samples into the UK cereal pathogen virulence survey (UKCPVS) to help investigate a suspected virulence change in its population. Speaking at the recent…
Farmer Focus: Wheat yield compromised as harvest nears
Farmers Weekly With my comment last time of “sun, sun, glorious sun”, it would appear I jinxed the June rainfall total and brought it down to next to nothing. Something similar to what our friends in Norfolk would normally…
Top farming safety tips from Farmers Weekly readers
Farmers Weekly Next week marks the start of Farm Safety Week (17- 21 July), an annual campaign to inspire safe practice across farms in the UK and Ireland. This year’s event comes in the wake of the latest farming fatalities…
How will new Welsh Agriculture Act affect farmers?
Farmers Weekly The debate and voting are over. All that now stands in the way of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill becoming legislation is royal assent. Described by rural affairs minister Lesley Griffiths as the most important…
Global grain markets volatile with Black Sea deal in doubt
Farmers Weekly Threats to grain exports from the Black Sea region and weather concerns in the US are both weighing on global markets, with prices seeing some support. The Black Sea Grain Initiative is due for renewal on…
4 farmers outline bale grazing benefits in field lab trial
Farmers Weekly A group of farmers is taking part in a four-year project to explore the impact of bale grazing on forage quality and soil health. The Innovative Farmers field lab will fill a research gap: to date, there have…
