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Farmers Weekly We often think the role of government is to uphold criminal law and defend us militarily. Yet one of the first roles of any functioning state is to provide a muscular defence of the contracts that individuals…

Farmers Weekly Payment rates in Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes will be equal for upland and lowland farms carrying out the same actions across England, Defra has announced. Following 18 months of lobbying from…

Farmers Weekly Harvest is often an intense time for farmers and their families, with a dangerous cocktail of long working hours, large machinery and pressure to meet deadlines.  CXCS health and safety adviser Emily Jones…

Farmers Weekly Lambing 2023 is complete. We are really pleased with how the ewes and lambs coped with the wet conditions. I think this has been the best lambing we’ve had to date. Only a handful of ewes needed lambing…

Farmers Weekly Cast your mind back three years to the dark days of the Covid-induced lockdown. It seems strange to think of now, doesn’t it; like some kind of surreal fever dream that never really happened (although for those…

Farmers Weekly The North dominates this week, with imminent launches of whole farms and substantial land blocks. With almost 164 acres, Manor House Farm at Thrintoft near Northallerton comes to the market next week for the…

Farmers Weekly Managing sows so they neither gain nor lose too much body condition between parities should be the ambition of every pig breeder, as this single measure directly impacts on a herd’s economic performance. This…

Farmers Weekly Kent farm manager Jack Woolley is using a grain protein prediction test to help him meet milling wheat protein requirements and so use valuable nitrogen fertiliser as efficiently as possible and protect the…

Farmers Weekly The UK is set to join an 11-nation Indo-Pacific free-trade bloc in the coming year, but debate rumbles on over whether this will be good or bad for British agriculture. Prime minister Rishi Sunak says joining…