Author Posts: Farmers Guide

Bradley Engineering has added a range of weighing and packing machinery to its portfolio, which includes palletisation and robotics products.

Farm vet Faye Heath, of Westpoint Farm Vets in Winchester, provides some top tips to ensure a successful lambing season.

Wox Agri Services says it is looking forward to delivering its new Scorpion front Reeler unit to the LAMMA show, which has been entered into the event’s Innovations competition.

Offences include keeping animals in a poor living environment, repeated overdue TB testing or breaching avian flu housing orders.

Protein-rich peas and beans are replacing concentrates in the winter ration of sheep and cattle at a Radnorshire farm.

Colostrum is critical to the short and long-term health of lambs. Nettex provides a guide on how to supplement both ewe and powdered colostrum.

Growers planning to apply a pre- or post-emergence herbicide to late-sown crops must be aware of the potential risks to crop safety and efficacy where conditions are sub-optimal, agronomy firm Hutchinsons warns.

Leach Lewis Rubber Tracks is now an established supplier in the agricultural track market following more than a decade supplying the construction market.

A dairy farm in Cheshire that was having trouble handling sand-laden slurry, has solved the problem with a new pump and help in the set-up of its reception pit.

With uncertainty over what government help will be available in 2024, making use of existing slurry grants to improve storage, management and to cover slurry is being advocated by industry specialist Tramspread.

A delayed 2023 harvest, followed by a particularly wet autumn hampered winter drilling, so spring cropping could be the only option for those farmers severely affected.

As temperatures begin to decline, FMC crop nutrition product manager Chris Bond urges growers to build up their cereal crop resilience through foliar nutrition to help them withstand the winter.