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Was Gordon Lightfoot’s song about the Edmund Fitzgerald accurate?
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. In the wake of the death of musician Gordon Lightfoot and his famous folk song, “The Wreck of the Edmund…
Farmer Focus: Who else unwinds by watching Cammy farming?
Farmers Weekly Lambing is almost done and, although it’s had its frustrations, it’s been a lot better than last year. The extra feeding has put more milk on the ewes, and the lambs have been more evenly sized and stronger. We…
Will’s World: Time to think about how we use time
Farmers Weekly “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” I was probably about 12 when I read those words for the first time in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Back in those days – when…
Editor’s view: Food Summit expectations are at rock bottom
Farmers Weekly “I call this meeting to order,” said Rishi Sunak, banging an auctioneer’s gavel on a Downing Street table and sending Larry the cat streaking for a window. “Minette, it’s so good of you to come. Although, of…
Powys farms offer diverse enterprise mix and potential
Farmers Weekly A brace of adjoining farms in Powys is about to be put on the market, offering a mix of enterprises and a decent scale to work with. Among several holdings with poultry units due to be launched in the next…
Time running out to prepare for wave of new plant diseases
Farmers Weekly Climate change is putting arable crops at greater risk from attack by pests and diseases never before seen on UK shores. According to a scientific review by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), a…
Tuning firm Twisted to offer modified two-seat Suzuki Jimnys
Farmers Weekly Tuning firm Twisted Automotive has turned its attention to the Suzuki Jimny, marking the first time in its 21-year history that it has carried out conversions on anything other than the classic Land Rover…
OSR makes a comeback with new drill and companion crop
Farmers Weekly Andrew and Ruth Spratt are back growing oilseed rape after a four-year gap armed with a new drill and using companion crops on their Gloucestershire farm to ward off pest attacks, and with the chance of an…
Four reasons Scottish wool shedders are good fit for NZ
Farmers Weekly A trailblazing hill farm’s maternal selection policy and commercial focus on its wool-shedding ewes has attracted the attention of a world-leading sheep stud. The Welsh family of Mossfennan, near Biggar, sent…
Rail safety bill passes Senate committee amid GOP resistance
The future of a railway safety bill created in response to the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) train in East Palestine, Ohio, is uncertain even though it passed a Senate committee, paving the way for a…
