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What’s in Your Shed? Diverse arable kit caters for niche crops
Farmers Weekly Dorset farmer Peter Snell takes Farmers Weekly on a tour of the machinery sheds at North Farm, Horton – the base of the family’s 1,422ha arable operation. See also: Video: Driver’s view – Tom Hawthorne’s Big…
New testing method is ‘game changer’ in fighting food fraud
Farmers Weekly A new testing method designed to verify the origin of certain food products has achieved 100% accuracy in a research project led by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast.…
GB potato area forecast to shrink in 2023 pushing up prices
Farmers Weekly Reduced plantings and a cool, wet spring is expected to lead to firmer prices in the UK potato market, analysis suggests. According to market information service World Potato Markets, the total GB potato area…
Editor’s view: Countryside’s future in hands of doers, not talkers
Farmers Weekly This week, I came as close as I ever have to attending a House of Lords away day. It wasn’t an official one, you understand, but a very smart new conference named Countryside Future, held at grand Hatfield…
Two Devon farms come to market
Farmers Weekly Recently launched in Devon by Greenslade Taylor Hunt is Brockenbarrow Farm near Challacombe, a 290-acre hill holding within the Exmoor National Park. The holding is about 11 miles from Barnstaple and has a…
Will’s World: The early farmer catches the birdsong
Farmers Weekly I am emphatically not a morning person. Which, when you think about it, is quite odd for an ex-dairy farmer (or perhaps that’s why I’m an ex-dairy farmer). I can get up early when I must, of course – and do…
Farmer Focus: Nasty surprise after progress on shade for pigs
Farmers Weekly Last month in my column I was writing about ideas I’d had for providing summer shade for our breeding sows. I was hoping it would further support our high animal welfare ethos, take a bit of pressure off the…
Scottish farmers demand policy clarity to plan businesses
Farmers Weekly The Scottish government is being urged to publish more detail on planned changes to agricultural policy with the new farm support system due to start in just two years. It is nearly 12 months since the…
Young farmers: What do they need to succeed?
Farmers Weekly The third annual study carried out by the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs (NFYFC) has shed new light on the challenges facing young farmers as they try to break into farming. The study, backed by…
Tips on growing profitable second wheats
Farmers Weekly Farmers on decent wheat-growing land should consider adding second wheats to the rotation, as few other crops are as profitable. Although margins are tighter due to higher input costs – notably nitrogen – and…
