Farmers Weekly US-based Tesla, the electric vehicle and clean energy company, has formed a joint venture with Defra to develop electric tractors aimed at saving farmers money and the environment. Defra secretary George Eustice has pledged an initial £500,000 that was not claimed by farmers in the r…
Farmers Weekly The merger of milk processors Nijjar Group Holdings Ltd (Freshways) and Medina Holdings Ltd has been cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The joint operation will process more than 450 million litres of milk a year through sites at Acton and Huddersfield. A third si…
Farmers Weekly A new recruitment and staff management tool has been launched to help dairy farmers meet their labour demands from the domestic workforce. The Employment Hub has been developed by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) and people consultancy Real Success. See also: Ho…
Farmers Weekly Butter, skimmed milk powder (SMP) and mild cheddar all made strong price gains in March on wholesale markets. As a result, the Actual Milk Price Equivalent (Ampe), the market indicator for milk used in butter and SMP, rose to a record 54.48p/litre in March, up by 12% (5.62p/litre) on …
Farmers Weekly Giving young farmers hope for the future and protecting mental health in the rural community are driving efforts to create a new facility to replace Cowbridge market in the Vale of Glamorgan. The market was demolished in 2020 to make way for a supermarket, taking from farmers a valued…
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Farmers Weekly The key message from on-farm trials using two alternative fungicides is that they offer useful activity on septoria in wheat, but advice on how they are utilised requires some refinement. In the 2020-21 harvest year, a group of farms in Norfolk set up field scale disease control trial…
Farmers Weekly Pig production has always been a key component of both the farming and the curriculum at Plumpton College in East Sussex. “It is a great enterprise for teaching due to the short production cycle,” says Ian Salmon, who manages Plumpton’s Lambert Farm. “Unlike other livestock, s…
Farmers Weekly Tension between farmers and visitors was heightened during the pandemic as record numbers visited the UK countryside, with infringements ranging from parked cars blocking gateways to dog walkers straying from footpaths. Some issues are merely an annoyance, while others seriously affec…
Farmers Weekly Herd movement restrictions in Great Britain could be significantly cut to as little as three weeks, thanks to a new test that will identify TB infection more quickly in slaughtered livestock. The Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) is rolling out a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) te…