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Reciprocal Tariffs Will Overturn Decades of Trade Policy

April 1, 2025

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Trader Joe’s Hot Honey Mustard Dressing recalled…

April 1, 2025

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Carmakers Race to Persuade Trump to Temper Tariffs

April 1, 2025

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Opinion: Crises call for action, not window-dressing

Farmers Weekly I’m listening to Rishi Sunak on the Today programme and the political editor, Chris Mason, is trying to pin him down on why the Cabinet Office is resisting the full disclosure of WhatsApp messages and emails to…

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Leaf launches school competition to win farm visit

Farmers Weekly A competition has opened inviting schools across the country to apply for the chance to win a farm experience for their classes to learn about the farm-to-fork journey and the importance of British farming.…

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Farmer Focus: Worst blackgrass pressure in 30 years of farming

Farmers Weekly Remember back in February I said that on the whole I was pleased with the crops and blackgrass control? Well, scrap that. It is fair to say I’m probably the most embarrassed about my grassweeds that I’ve been…

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Mechanisation imperative to secure UK thatching straw future

Farmers Weekly Indigenous supplies of thatching straw could be under threat if the sector’s vintage machinery is not brought up to date. Concerns over the sustainability of UK production were first aired by Historic England,…

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New poultry units – planning and environmental permissions advice

Farmers Weekly Applicants seeking planning consents and environmental permits for poultry housing must meet increasingly tough pollution prevention regulations and high upfront costs for environmental mitigation measures.…

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This Week in Farming: Policy updates galore and a new Toyota

Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to another edition of This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for all the best content from the Farmers Weekly website in the past seven days. Here are five of the hottest topics that we’ve…

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Dairy farming in a drought – tips from New Zealand

Farmers Weekly Dairy farmers need to look Down Under to find new ways of dealing with extreme weather events. That is because New Zealand and Australia are two of the world’s most drought-prone countries that still have…

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Union Rep Says Norfolk Southern Has Cut Back on Inspections

Freight railcar inspections are happening less often and are not as thorough as in the past due to staff cuts, time constraints and regulatory loopholes, a union official testified June 23.

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Witness testifies freight car involved in NS train derailment was not inspected

Jason Cox, national representative of the Transportation Communications Union, testified at the National Transportation Safety Board’s hearing Friday on the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that a…

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Top 100 For-Hire Carriers Grow Despite Softer Freight Market

Despite a softer freight environment, most of the largest trucking companies in North America continued to grow their businesses last year even as spot market rates dropped.