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Will’s World: Plan for farm’s future hardly straightforward
Farmers Weekly The year is 2043. Wrexham have just been crowned Premier League and European Champions and the 23rd series of Clarkson’s Farm has just been confirmed. Former FW opinion writer and now UK Farmers’ Party prime…
Farmer Focus: Cutting demand to eke out grass platform
Farmers Weekly Farming with extremes in weather patterns seems to be a recurring theme over recent years. Rain was welcomed last week, with drought stress visible across the farm. Grass growth had dropped to 25kg dry matter…
Fertiliser market shakes out after disruption of 2022
Farmers Weekly As an island with just one domestic ammonium nitrate (AN) manufacturer, the UK is exposed, relying heavily on imports for crucial plant nutrients. Gas had become the feedstock of choice in Europe and Russia’s…
FreightWaves SONAR launches Index-Linked Contracts solution
For many shippers, logistics providers and freight carriers, the request for proposal (RFP) process can be time consuming and stressful. The constant work of rebidding freight and wrangling over price can cause major…
Spot Market Struggles With Prolonged Bottom
The spot market has become stuck in a stagnant bottom with market patterns preventing it from building back momentum.
Teamsters Break Off UPS Talks, Warn Strike ‘Inevitable’
The Teamsters union gave UPS Inc. a June 30 ultimatum in labor talks after walking away from discussions June 28, warning a nationwide strike “appears inevitable.”
NHTSA rejects call to make AV test reporting mandatory
WASHINGTON — A federal regulator has declined a request to require automated vehicle (AV) developers and government agencies to submit test and safety data into an AV testing database, asserting that such a change to the…
Supply Chain Legislation Awaits Votes in House, Senate
With the congressional August recess fast approaching, senior transportation policymakers are calling for passage of several big picture supply chain-centric bills.
Your Guide to Moving People, Safely & Reliably
Transportation providers can and should start to build a modern and sustainable maintenance maturity management plan. This guide outlines ways to rethink applied enterprise asset management practices to meet new levels of…
State of Freight for June: Few signs of upturn from historic lows
CLEVELAND — In a room full of battered transportation and logistics companies laboring under the continued drag of a historically weak freight market, it would have been easy to declare that the second half of 2023 will be…
