Latest news

Latest news - additional articles

FARM POLICY

In this episode, we preview the early start to harvest 2025 as the first combines roll into barley crops. One year after the Labour came to power, we ask why…

CROP MANAGEMENT

How Wilts estate's 'practical regen' approach supports yields

Covering 1,800ha within the Cranbourne Chase National Landscape, a family-owned estate is aiming to increase biodiversity without compromising yields or profits. The productive chalk downland farm is home to various…

WEED MANAGEMENT

Electric weeding system makes debut at Groundswell

Controlling weeds in arable crops using electricity is a step closer with the first commercial tractor-mounted units destined for specialist crop growers in the UK. Better known for its precision-guided…

SOILS

Herefordshire seed grower crowned Soil Farmer of the Year

Herefordshire farmer Jonathan Joseph is this year’s Soil Farmer of the Year, in recognition of how he has reshaped soil management on his farm. This has been achieved through a…

VARIETY SELECTION

Bedford grower assesses new varieties to replace Extase

Matt Fuller is set to switch to two new milling wheat varieties this autumn to replace much of his Extase area if the Group 2 millers fulfil their promise on…

Livestock

 

DAIRY

Pig producers struggling to find and retain good-quality staff are advised to focus on getting the basics right and consistently meeting key needs. “Pay must be fair and should always…

CONTRACTOR COMMENT

Contractor Comment: Foraging work ditched for an easier life

Much can happen in four months. And so it’s proved for Isle of Wight contractor Rob Chapman. When we last visited Rob’s base at Westover Farm, Calbourne, all the talk…

MACHINERY

Mzuri production goes to Poland as Kongskilde returns to UK

Production of all Mzuri Pro-Til seed drills, the Rehab subsoiler and Rezult straw rake is now concentrated in Poland, with all sales, marketing and other activities also transferred to Mzuri World,…

4X4S

On test: Ford ramps up Ranger pickup power with 281hp hybrid

Marrying the powers of petroleum and electrons has produced one of the pokiest Ranger pickups ever built. Ford’s Plug-in Hybrid (Phev) powertrain – the first of its genre in Europe…

COMBINES

Case IH launches high-spec 6.1-12.5m G500V VariCut headers

As the UK grain harvest gets under way, Case IH has revealed a refreshed cutting table with variable knife position and features said to improve combine performance and make the…

LAND MARKETS

Family succession planning brings a 1,789-acre Staffordshire mixed farming and sporting estate with diverse income streams to the market. Bagots Park at Abbots Bromley has been in the same ownership…

BUSINESS CLINIC

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Kate Bell of accountant Albert Goodman sets out considerations on partnership capital…

Transition section

CROP MANAGEMENT

Talk at Cereals 2025 about “public money for public goods” being under threat means that growers visiting the event were considering which environmental actions would remain in place on their…

Opinion

OPINION

In the years since Brexit, British agriculture has become caught in a peculiar double bind. We’re told to look forward, not back. To embrace change. To take responsibility. But at…

Community

WILL'S WORLD

Harvest is one of the most intense, rewarding, and visually striking times of the farming year, and Farmers Weekly wants to see it through your lens. Our annual Harvest Photography…

Week in focus

NEWS

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, here are your markets (opens…

OPINION

Two trips in the past two weeks have given a fresh perspective on the challenges posed to the arable sector by the current ultra-low prices, and how farmers will be…

WILL'S WORLD

Make hay while the sun shines, they say. And for the past few weeks, on and off, I’ve been doing just that. What marvellous weather we’ve had for it; I…

Arable Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

In late May, I was fortunate to have a week in the US visiting suppliers of an irrigation business we are part owners of. Nothing beats fronting up, in person,…

Livestock Farmer Focus

FARMER FOCUS

On a Monday morning in early January, I was at the Moredun Institute just outside Edinburgh, where many of the great and good of the bovine sector – including the…

Events

Adverts for apps

 
 

NEWS

Video: Earliest ever barley harvest for Merseyside grower

Merseyside arable farmer and YouTube personality Olly Harrison has kicked off his earliest ever barley harvest, starting on Thursday 26 June – a day ahead of his previous record set…

YOUNG FARMERS

Video: 90 and Counting - James Harris, future farmer, Shrops

Future farmer James Harris, four, is the fifth generation on his family’s beef farm in Shropshire, where he lives with mum Katie, dad Robert and sister Florence, nine. About a…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 260: Early harvest, and why it's gone quiet on IHT

In this episode, we preview the early start to harvest 2025 as the first combines roll into barley crops. One year after the Labour came to power, we ask why…

NEWS

FW Podcast Ep 259: Red Tractor reform and bluetongue havoc

In this episode, a former NFU combinable crops chairman sets the pace of change at Red Tractor is too slow to win back farmers' confidence. Cross-border bluetongue restrictions on livestock…

Series

What’s in your Shed?

The brands, tips, and tools that make a difference

View series

Crop Watch

Insights and crop management updates from seed to harvest

View series

Contractor Comment

A closer look at the highs and lows of life on the job

View series

Business Clinic

Business tips and advice from our team of experts

View series

Jobs classified property

Most popular

custom styles