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Farmers Weekly Farmers looking to establish linseed next spring can now use a key pyrethroid spray to manage flax flea beetle. Premium Crops has secured an extension of authorisation for minor use (Eamu) from the Chemicals…

Farmers Weekly From the four corners of Wales the faithful come in convoys of pickups, Land Rovers, wagons, stock trailers and caravans. Over the mountains and along the valleys, through villages and small towns, past chapels…

Farmers Weekly Farmer cluster groups are meeting local environmental priorities both on their own farms and beyond their boundaries. The term “cluster” was adopted, because it describes how members of these groups are…

Farmers Weekly Agroforestry has gone from a novel idea to a core part of a resilient farming model at Yeo Valley in Somerset, with 405ha (1,000 acres) of woodland grazing targeted by 2028. British Friesian and Angus-cross…

Farmers Weekly Pig prices have begun to recover in 2023 and producers are starting to recoup some of the losses as they return to a more profitable position. Finished pigs are selling for about 225p/kg deadweight, and the…

Farmers Weekly This week and next will be among the busiest in the year’s arable farming calendar as a break in the weather looks set to permit folk to catch up on the harvest schedule. The long days ahead will be a necessity…