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Farmers Weekly The recent energy crisis has pulled into sharp focus for all businesses the rising cost of gas and electricity; but for dairy farms, where the energy need has always been high, the current spikes in unit costs…

Farmers Weekly Higher-powered versions of New Holland’s T7HD and the Case IH Optum have been introduced, with 340hp on tap and a peak torque figure of 1,353Nm at 1,400rpm. The new models feature the same 6.7-litre,…

Farmers Weekly For any arable farm, harvest is one of the most important times of the year. It’s also one of the most labour-intensive, with long working hours night and day and a huge amount of hard work involved. Poor…

Farmers Weekly Amazone is among a ruck of big-name cultivator manufacturers to branch into the world of inter-row mechanical weeders on the back of strengthening anti-chemistry sentiment. The first fruits of its 2019…

Farmers Weekly The window has now shut for hoeing our combinable crops. We managed to get all the spring crops done, but due to the wet March (apart from most of our winter wheat/bean bi-crop), winter cereals slipped through…

Farmers Weekly The outlook for UK oilseeds markets remains bearish in the short term with a large crop expected in Europe and mixed global demand. Total oilseeds production in the EU-27 is projected to be 33.7m tonnes by the…

Farmers Weekly For any arable farm, harvest is one of the most important times of the year. It’s also one of the most labour-intensive, with long working hours night and day and a huge amount of hard work involved. Poor…

Farmers Weekly Fuel prices are at a level that may tempt many to fill the tank, having reached a 22-month low in mid-May and putting on just a couple of pence since then. However, offers to fix prices forward are hard to…

Farmers Weekly Results from the first UK farm to test methane emissions in sheep using portable accumulation chambers have shown they were producing on average about 20g/day of methane and 1.2kg/day of carbon dioxide. The…