Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Defra has announced £35 million of guaranteed funding for rural businesses to purchase state-of-the-art equipment and machinery.

The average treated gross output of OSR control varieties is 5.12t/ha, which is below the four-year average value of 5.25t/ha.

Two livestock auctions in the UK and Ireland have raised more than £23,000 for mental health charities that support farmers.

The use of dairy sexed semen has doubled in the past five years and now accounts for nearly one in three inseminations, according to AHDB’s latest survey.

The Valtra N154e Versu is more than just a tractor. The N154e Versu means the possibility of tailoring the tractor precisely for individual needs already on the production line and in the Unlimited Studio, where only the laws of physics and road traffic regulations are the limit.

Valtra has taken a step beyond precision farming and is now aiming at Smart Farming. Smart Farming involves more than just adjusting tractor functions based on location information or some other individual technology.

Valtra is teaming up with fertiliser company Yara in a project that aims to achieve a significant reduction in the environmental impacts of meat and dairy production and increased productivity of grassland production.

Beef farmers are being advised to consider delaying weaning over the winter months to make sure cows achieve optimal condition for spring calving.

The Manitou group, world leader in all-terrain material handling, announces the take over of a majority stake in its UK dealer Mawsley Machinery Ltd, based near Northampton, consecutive to the retirement of their main shareholders.

The National Farmers Union (NFU) is urging MPs to investigate the UK’s liquid milk processing sector as a matter of urgency, with tight margins across the supply chain leaving the dairy industry in an “unsustainable situation”.

A rise in aphid numbers, coupled with the start of cereal drilling, has prompted agronomy firm ProCam to compile a three-point checklist of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) risk factors that could take on added significance as growers attempt to manage the problem without a neonicotinoid seed treatment this autumn.

Swadro TC 1370 Krone has launched the Swadro TC 1370 as a replacement for the Swadro 1400 Plus. The new model is a four rotor rake designed specifically for contractor