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Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 149: Latest CS offer, data leaks and sheep tactics
Farmers Weekly In this episode, we look at the pros and cons as the government launches its latest Countryside Stewardship offer for farmers in England. Government landscape agency Natural England is under fire after a data…
Refreshed TB programme announced for Wales
Farmers Weekly Pre-movement testing of cattle for bovine TB is to be reinstated in parts of Wales because the number of herd breakdowns is on the rise. This announcement comes despite historically low rates of the disease.…
Five things Therese Coffey told hostile Efra committee meeting
Farmers Weekly Therese Coffey appeared before MPs at an Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee meeting to answer questions on the latest policies affecting food and farming. During the session held at Westminster on…
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…
