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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…
Pottinger adds on-land option to Servo 6000T plough
Farmers Weekly An on-land option for Pottinger’s new Servo T 6000 semi-mounted ploughs enables the implements to be used for either in-furrow ploughing or with wide-tyred and tracked tractors operating out of the furrow.…
Plan carefully to avoid farm property family friction, warn legal advisers
Farmers Weekly This month, after a long and expensive legal case Rebecca Carter had her right to ownership of a house on her family’s farm confirmed in court. Separately, a judge found that Julie Mate was entitled to a share…
Video: UK’s largest agroforestry system integrates fruit and arable
Farmers Weekly First-generation tenant farmer Stephen Briggs planted the UK’s largest agroforestry system, integrating fruit trees and arable cropping to boost land productivity. More than a decade after the 4,500 apple trees…
Cautious, Guarded, Financially Focused: The State of Consumers in 2023, from NIQ
Consumers are feeling “unsettled,” and it will impact their spending year. This is the key takeaway from the NIQ presentation “What Comes Next for Retail?” at The NGA Show last month. The presentation focused on U.S. data…
EV Startup Lucid to Cut 1,300 Jobs, 18% of Its Workforce
Lucid Group Inc. is eliminating 18% of its workforce, including employees and contractors, as the electric vehicle startup looks to cut costs in its second full year of production.
