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Arable budgeting tool predicts profit drop for this harvest
Farmers Weekly Higher working capital requirements, lower commodity prices and the fall in the value of basic payments mean net margins for harvest 2023 could be less than 50% of last year’s level. “Arable producers are…
Avocado Green Skin vs Hass
You’ve probably seen those large, green avocados at the grocery store — Florida avocados, also known as Dominican avocados — and wondered what the difference is. Are you missing out? Green Skin Avocados are…
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 149: Latest CS offer, data leaks and sheep tactics
Farmers Weekly In this episode, we look at the pros and cons as the government launches its latest Countryside Stewardship offer for farmers in England. Government landscape agency Natural England is under fire after a data…
Refreshed TB programme announced for Wales
Farmers Weekly Pre-movement testing of cattle for bovine TB is to be reinstated in parts of Wales because the number of herd breakdowns is on the rise. This announcement comes despite historically low rates of the disease.…
Five things Therese Coffey told hostile Efra committee meeting
Farmers Weekly Therese Coffey appeared before MPs at an Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee meeting to answer questions on the latest policies affecting food and farming. During the session held at Westminster on…
Eyes on forecast and hogg price with couples back £10
Farmers Weekly A lacklustre in-lamb ewe trade has made way for a similarly challenging couples trade, with auctioneers blaming input costs and a slow spring on limited demand. Ewes with lambs at foot were dearer at the start…
House panel eyes ending ocean carriers’ antitrust exemption
In a subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, members of Congress discussed overturning antitrust immunity that ocean carriers have enjoyed for decades. The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee hearing also included…
Is it a threat to national security or just my favorite app?
At the market (Image: Shutterstock) What’s going on here? It seems every week some company is laying off more and more of its staff. Last week, Walmart announced layoffs of 200 people, Amazon said it’s cutting 9,000 jobs and…
FMCSA’s hours-of-service exemption implicated in fatal truck crash
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board came down hard on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after the board found that a fatigued driver of a milk-hauling tank truck was abusing the…
Farmer Focus: Comment on suckler cow efficiency sinks in
Farmers Weekly It’s taken a while for me to understand a discussion I heard at a farmers’ meeting a decade ago. The discussion was about the merits of investing to improve the weaning percentage of suckler cows to try and…
