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Farmers Weekly A group of farmers on Jersey are looking to make use of their island’s benign climate to help the UK government meet its ambitious targets for planting more trees. In 2019, the UK government set a target to…

Farmers Weekly Many years ago, at a local NFU evening meeting in County Durham, a farmer stated that the worst thing to happen for his region was grammar schools. When I asked why, he pointed out that they took the most able,…

Farmers Weekly The Yorkshire Agricultural Society is offering life-saving first aid training to farmers across the county at a heavily subsidised rate, after securing grant funding from the Partnership Investment Fund. The…

Farmers Weekly Making the contents of bulky farm tyre technical data books available on a mobile device app has made it much easier for farmers to get guidance on inflation pressures for tractors and equipment. Now a number…

Farmers Weekly Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Joe Spencer, partner at MHA, offers advice on tax reliefs for diversification. See also: Expert…

Farmers Weekly Ed and Sarah Sykes, owners of Piglets Adventure Farm in York, have created straw bale sculptures to welcome visitors to the farm this weekend for the Coronation. See more: Charles III: Advocate of traditional…

Farmers Weekly For the first time in more than a decade there have been a few tweaks made to the way our piglet payment is calculated. The basic payment we receive has previously had top-ups for vaccinating, maintaining green…

Farmers Weekly Potato growers are being advised to check fields to determine how well their herbicides have worked before the blight spraying season kicks off. Andrew Goodinson, potato agronomist at crop production specialist…