This week sees a quieter spell of weather offering an opportunity to complete autumn jobs such as top-up herbicides in cereals, drilling wheat after beet ...

Will a new carbon tax push up fertiliser prices? Has the farming industry successfully regulated its own pesticide use? And ...

The farm is looking a picture at present. We have had regular rainfall, mild temperatures and not too much drying nor’west wind yet. I have never seen ...

Sugar beet usually offers the highest gross margin for Suffolk farmer Will Hitchcock, but with yields down 20-30% this ...

Fifteen people from across farming and the rural economy have been selected for the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) 2027 ...

Cambridgeshire farmer David Wheatley has decided to stop growing sugar beet, as contract prices mean it is no longer viable. “On paper, the pricing looks ...

Nine new dealers have put pen to paper in the past 18 months, there is an updated 340hp flagship on its way, and a squad of Italian engineers is working ...

Lack of investment and persistent planning delays are thwarting the poultry sector’s ability to expand – despite “growth” being one of the government’s declared objectives. Addressing this week’s Egg ...

The value in topping a Pembrokeshire dairy farm’s 4,000 cu m (879,877-gallon) slurry lagoon with an impermeable cover was ...

Farmers keen to handle their own ditch cleaning, water pipe installation, groundworks and similar operations are being ...

Optimising both cost and performance is usually the starting point when developing fungicide programmes. Given the pressure ...

Farmers are advised to scan all cows this autumn to establish what’s in-calf and which animals are empty following bluetongue infection this summer. There ...