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Farmers Weekly New freedoms to extend homes, convert lofts and renovate old buildings, including repurposing agricultural buildings, have been announced as part of the government’s review of permitted development rights.  …

Farmers Weekly Playing football is a great way to get physically fit, but a regular kickabout can also bring great mental health benefits for farmers. This is the focus of a new collaboration between the Farmers’ of Wales…

Farmers Weekly Inflationary pressures on farm businesses could be reduced through better collaboration with other farmers and processors, a leading banker has suggested. Addressing farmers at an NFU Cymru seminar at the Royal…

Farmers Weekly Hybu Cig Cymru has unveiled new plans to promote sustainable Welsh red meat products. Welsh livestock farmers will be front and centre of a new multiplatform, multimedia campaign to promote Welsh lamb, which…

Farmers Weekly Lord Smith of Finsbury (the former culture secretary) recently weighed into the extremely sensitive debate about right to roam, giving his two penneth in a comment piece in The Times.  Lord Smith, quite…

Farmers Weekly Defra secretary Therese Coffey has given her clearest indication yet that her department will continue to cull badgers to tackle bovine TB in England, if the science shows it is working. Speaking at a media…

Farmers Weekly Quite incredibly, four weeks to the day the intruders that stole a heap of our GPS equipment returned. We were rudely awoken at 2am by the alarm on our phones alerting us to the fact that there was movement…

Farmers Weekly Winter wheat harvest started two weeks earlier than usual for Dorset farm manager Tom Matthews, making him one of the earliest growers in the UK to cut wheat this season. However, initial yields of Extase wheat…

Farmers Weekly Trawling the globe for elite commercial sires and flushing easy-fleshing females from forage-based systems has helped a pedigree herd expand while consistently bulling heifers at 14-15 months old. Dutch…

Farmers Weekly The humble pickup has undergone a marked gentrification over the past decade and few have been as pivotal in its transformation as Volkswagen. Even when it was first launched in 2011, the high-spec Amarok…