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Alaskan trucking fleets promise $150K driver salaries amid drilling boom
As more drilling and mining projects are approved in Alaska, local trucking fleets are planning to hire drivers around the United States to haul equipment, chemicals and other loads — particularly on its fearsome Dalton…
Don’t let good safety practices slip amid freight recession
With trucking companies bearing the brunt of the freight recession, the question on every carrier’s mind is how to generate more revenue despite low freight rates and weak demand. Brian Runnels, vice president of safety at…
The ‘Great American Baking Show’ Is Actually Good This Time
Hosts Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood join hosts Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry for a ‘GABO’ reboot that succeeds Roku Channel The new show with hosts Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry is a lot like the “Great British Bake Off,” and…
NFU Scotland demands clarity on £33m deferred funding
Farmers Weekly Farm leaders in Scotland are seeking clarification from Scottish government over when £33m deferred from the agricultural budget will be returned to the sector. NFU Scotland (NFUS) has written to Scotland’s…
Canada gives green light to gene-edited crops
Farmers Weekly Canada has approved the use of gene-editing technology to grow crops for commercial use, just months after similar regulation was passed in England. Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced that…
Defra to embark on ‘summer of roadshows’ to promote ELM
Farmers Weekly Defra is to embark on a “summer of roadshows” at agricultural shows and events to encourage more farmers to engage in new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. Trudy Harrison, Defra environment minister…
New Food Standards Scotland board to focus on food safety
Farmers Weekly Four new members have been appointed to Scotland’s food standards board in a bid to improve food safety. Christina Bichan, Paula Charlesworth, Phillip Couser, and former farm vet Kate Richards have joined the…
Downsizing and enterprise stacking makes Kent farm financially resilient
Farmers Weekly If ideas and enterprise stacking rather than scale and focus make a farming business resilient, then Doug Wanstall is onto a winner. A business that at its largest was contract-farming 1,900ha of arable and…
Editor’s view: Farming must be profitable to attract new entrants
Farmers Weekly Where there’s a will, there’s a way – though it sure does take a lot of determination to break into farming if you’re not from a farming background. Harnessing that entrepreneurial spirit seems high up the list…
Farmer Focus: Turnout gallops leave paddock poached
Farmers Weekly I had hoped to write this after cutting and clamping pre-maize first-cut and already be planning cultivations for maize, but the wet weather has me rethinking plans. We haven’t had weather to dry the land…
