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Strike at Billingham cancelled after pay offer 

Loading workers at the CF Fertilisers factory will no longer strike in September.

RSABI increases focus on suicide prevention in farming 

On World Suicide Prevention Day, RSABI is set to recruit a full-time member of staff focused on suicide prevention work in Scottish agriculture.

Key woodland management tasks this autumn

Autumn is an ideal time to ensure your woodland is in the best health for the colder winter months.

Change is coming to sugar beet

Reforms to the UK sugar beet seed model will give growers more choice and flexibility, allowing earlier uptake of new genetics and increase choice for growers.

Maize: An attractive breakcrop with SFI benefits

Tom Turner of seed breeder KWS offers advice on varietal choice and outlines the new SFI maize options.

Upland farmer uses recording to grow lamb income

Elfyn Owen has boosted his income from lamb sales by performance recording his closed flock of Welsh Mountain ewes.

Protect yield potential with well-drained land

Drainage forms the building blocks of all land management. Here, the NAAC provides its best practice drainage advice.

Farmers urged to act on coughing cattle immediately

Cases of lungworm are now being reported across the UK, prompting a warning to take action to prevent cattle deaths.

Precision agriculture solutions boost efficiencies

Guidance and autosteering options from FJDynamics UK.

Cultivating your own way

Horsch outlines its cultivator range, available with disc, tine or disc and tine configurations in 3–12m working widths, including new models.

Concerns over fertiliser shortage as CF workers plan to strike

Loading workers at CF Fertilisers’ Billingham factory will strike over pay.

New trailer mounted slurry separator launched

Vogelsang has launched a new trailer mounted XSplit unit to appeal to contractors and multi-site farms looking to improve slurry quality before application.

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