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Farmers Weekly The James Hutton Institute has secured funding within the potato industry to continue its “Fight Against Blight” programme. It helps protect valuable potato crops by monitoring outbreaks of late blight and…

Farmers Weekly Natural England has written to farmers on Dartmoor to propose a one-year extension to existing stewardship agreements, with no reduction in livestock numbers for most areas. This would be followed by a…

Farmers Weekly Is there a secret pact between Labour and the Tories to see who can infuriate the countryside more? Just when you think you’ve heard every curious idea thought up by the government, along comes a story that it…

Farmers Weekly The wool trade once formed the historic backbone of the British economy, with fleeces sold overseas to foreign merchants, however, in recent times its value has taken a tumble. See also: Charles III: Advocate…

Farmers Weekly “If you can keep yourself from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you’ve got it half licked,” wrote Henry Miller in his seminal 1972 book On Turning Eighty. I think about this a lot, as it’s…

Farmers Weekly With lambing finished, things have become a bit less hectic here. It has gone well, with the weather in our favour. Lambing everything outside certainly leaves us vulnerable on this front, but it’s the right…

Farmers Weekly Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Neil Berry, partner at MHA, offers advice on how land and buildings can be put into a pension…

Farmers Weekly Soil-borne viruses have pushed a light land Somerset farm into growing only one variety of winter barley and one of winter wheat, which are resistant to the yield-damaging mosaic strain, after suffering big…

Farmers Weekly Jim Watt of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire runs a busy contracting firm focusing on baling and forage harvesting. Cashflow is one of the biggest challenges facing his business as farmers’ margins tighten and…