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Farmers Weekly Farmers and land managers in England are being encouraged to look at what’s on offer in Defra’s Landscape Recovery scheme. The Landscape Recovery (LR) programme is one of the government’s three new…

Farmers Weekly Former National Pig Association (NPA) chief executive, and now regional director for NFU East Anglia, Zoe Leach has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the new King’s first Birthday…

Farmers Weekly The number of cattle slaughtered due to bovine TB in England is at its lowest level for 15 years, according to (new official statistics PDF). Between April 2022 and March this year, 20,228 TB-infected cattle…

Farmers Weekly Located over 140 acres of mixed terrain across the rolling hills of North Yorkshire, family-run farm High Braythorne recently collaborated with Environment Bank to help diversify their income. When farmer…

Farmers Weekly It bothers me that when times are hard in farming we get told we need to diversify to survive. I fear farmers are led down a path of bringing in additional income from secondary businesses that can act as a…

Farmers Weekly By Chris McCullough Paying more attention to feed efficiency indexes when selecting sires for dairy herds will help compensate the escalating costs of feed being witnessed today. With that in mind, dairy…

Farmers Weekly Autonomous Agri Solutions and Sentry farming have teamed up to use a fully autonomous robot to successfully drill and weed a 150ha area of sugar beet across Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. This season the…

Farmers Weekly The problems caused by winter stem weevil in oilseed rape crops this year may have been unintentionally caused by bringing drilling dates forward. The adults have an earlier egg-laying period than that of…

Farmers Weekly A British herd manager is overseeing the strategic expansion of a 1,900-cow farm in Indonesia, adding two new barns with close to 1,000 cow spaces and a 90-point rotary this year.  Herd manager Brendan Wilkins…