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Bridgestone guarantees tread width with new VX-R Tractor tyre
Farmers Weekly With its latest tyre design – the VX-R Tractor – Bridgestone has focused on traction lug design to ensure overall tread width is what users expect from the tyre size marking. When manufacturers size a tyre as…
Farmer Focus: Shearing competition shows community spirit
Farmers Weekly Following a busy weekend at the annual Cneifio Llysfasi shearing competition, I’m still praying for a deluge of rain. Although we had some heavy showers with some thunder and lightning during the event, the…
Photo: Britain’s Fittest Farmer 2023 contestants fit and fantastic
Farmers Weekly The contestants and the sun were out in full force at the Britain’s Fittest Farmer 2023 qualifiers on Wednesday (21 June) at the Lincolnshire Show. This is Suzannah Borrows, one of the contestants taking part…
How the infrastructure revolution will affect more farmers
Farmers Weekly If the UK is to meet its net-zero and levelling-up ambitions, huge investment in infrastructure will be required over the next 10-20 years, much of which will involve pipelines, power cables and roads through…
Foul play suspected in fire at Nikola headquarters
An investigation is underway after an early morning fire on Friday damaged multiple trucks at the Phoenix headquarters of electric truck manufacturer Nikola Corp. The incident, which was first reported just before 5 a.m.…
Florida trucking company owner accused in $100M Ponzi scheme
A Florida man faces multiple federal charges for allegedly operating a $100 million Ponzi scheme through his over-the-road trucking company, Royal Bengal Logistics Inc. Sanjay Singh Sanjay Singh, 43, of Coral Springs,…
Opinion: Crises call for action, not window-dressing
Farmers Weekly I’m listening to Rishi Sunak on the Today programme and the political editor, Chris Mason, is trying to pin him down on why the Cabinet Office is resisting the full disclosure of WhatsApp messages and emails to…
Leaf launches school competition to win farm visit
Farmers Weekly A competition has opened inviting schools across the country to apply for the chance to win a farm experience for their classes to learn about the farm-to-fork journey and the importance of British farming.…
Farmer Focus: Worst blackgrass pressure in 30 years of farming
Farmers Weekly Remember back in February I said that on the whole I was pleased with the crops and blackgrass control? Well, scrap that. It is fair to say I’m probably the most embarrassed about my grassweeds that I’ve been…
Mechanisation imperative to secure UK thatching straw future
Farmers Weekly Indigenous supplies of thatching straw could be under threat if the sector’s vintage machinery is not brought up to date. Concerns over the sustainability of UK production were first aired by Historic England,…
