Farmers Weekly Organisers of tractor road runs and ploughing matches fear their events will be unsustainable when new rules banning the use of red diesel come into force later this year. In its 2020 Budget the government said it was removing the entitlement to use red diesel and rebated biofuels fro…
Farmers Weekly Millions of black soldier fly larvae, bred in a converted shipping container, are helping to boost the protein content of feed at a laying unit in Powys. The larvae are grown in a high-tech, mini-insect farm, built within a shipping container on Osian Williams’ Wern Farm near Welsh…
Farmers Weekly A new tine arrangement is the highlight of Lemken’s latest Karat cultivator, which the company says will reduce power requirements and deliver a straighter pull. The redesign of the “10” derivative sees the legs laid out symmetrically across each of the three rows, meaning the i…
Farmers Weekly A Herefordshire farmer has been killed after being crushed by a trailer tailgate. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said the farmer, who has not been named, died as a result of the injuries he suffered in the accident on 11 January. A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service …
Farmers Weekly Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has promised to promote and enforce the tougher penalties that now apply for sheep worrying in Scotland. The Protection of Livestock (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2021 came into force on 14 November 2021, increasing the investigative power…
Farmers Weekly Cheshire West and Chester Council is to sell off all but 500 acres of its farmland by 2025 – and there is no guarantee those remaining acres will be used for food production. Just 10% will remain of the 4,557 acres of farmland the authority owned in 2011 as the council continues to…
Farmers Weekly Farmers looking to exploit new opportunities, introduce greater flexibility and make their businesses more resilient should consider collaborating as a route to a more productive future. Joining forces with other farmers and growers is a proven way of reducing costs and increasing eff…
Farmers Weekly A research project investigating the role of phosphorus (P) within the UK food system has identified huge inefficiencies in its use, with a total of 138,000t of P unused, wasted or lost annually in 2018. One of three key areas associated with this loss was the over-application of phos…
Farmers Weekly Farm leaders fear a “perfect storm” is brewing at the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) over the delivery of new and existing farm support schemes in England. Underlying mapping and hedgerow data issues at the RPA are delaying offers for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme pi…
Farmers Weekly Ignorant of the realities of farming. That was the essence of Jeremy Clarkson’s reaction to recent news that he’d not received planning permission for the on-farm restaurant he said the business needed to mitigate the impending loss of subsidies. It was the same charge that was in…