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Farmers Weekly has been working for your farming future since 1934. News, analysis and advice that farmers can trust. #BackBritishFarming 🇬🇧

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Get snapping! Farmers Weekly photo competition deadline nears - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/K3OTBH
Get snapping! Farmers Weekly photo competition deadline nears - Farmers Weekly

Get snapping! Farmers Weekly photo competition deadline nears - Farmers Weekly

There’s still time to show off your best farming photographs! Farmers Weekly is reminding farmers and keen snappers to get their entries in for this

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The National Women in Agriculture Awards is officially welcoming its first entries! Whether you're entering yourself or nominating someone whose contribution deserves recognition, now's the time to get involved. Enter or nominate now: nationalwomeninagriculture.c… #NWIA #WomenInAg
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Farmer Focus: I won a battle with wireworm for once - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/o8MzVd
Farmer Focus: I won a battle with wireworm for once - Farmers Weekly

Farmer Focus: I won a battle with wireworm for once - Farmers Weekly

We finished harvesting our potato crop in record time this year. Yields and quality were not wonderful, but we did have one very successful result. An 8ha

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Claas steps up tractor range overhaul with new Arion 4 - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/OU9uly
Claas steps up tractor range overhaul with new Arion 4 - Farmers Weekly

Claas steps up tractor range overhaul with new Arion 4 - Farmers Weekly

This week, Claas launched a new range of 120-150hp tractors at the EIMA show in Italy. Tagged Arion 4s, with a dot and a number to denote their rated

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Red Tractor proposes 27% cut in combinable crops audit points - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/JDPAe0
Red Tractor proposes 27% cut in combinable crops audit points - Farmers Weekly

Red Tractor proposes 27% cut in combinable crops audit points - Farmers Weekly

Red Tractor is inviting combinable crops and sugar beet growers to help rewrite its standards, with around a quarter of audit points proposed for removal

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How a whole-flock health strategy cut lameness to 1.4% - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/oxiQzu
How a whole-flock health strategy cut lameness to 1.4% - Farmers Weekly

How a whole-flock health strategy cut lameness to 1.4% - Farmers Weekly

Adopting a whole-flock approach to health has helped a Carmarthenshire farmer to reduce lameness from 3% to 1.4% while improving lambing output. Neil

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Avian flu confirmed at Lancashire poultry farm - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-w…
Avian flu confirmed at Lancashire poultry farm - Farmers Weekly

Avian flu confirmed at Lancashire poultry farm - Farmers Weekly

A fresh outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed at a mixed commercial poultry farm near Garstang, Lancashire, prompting emergency

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ABP lamb takeover raises competition and job fears - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/VszoTG
ABP lamb takeover raises competition and job fears - Farmers Weekly

ABP lamb takeover raises competition and job fears - Farmers Weekly

The proposed takeover of Pilgrim’s Europe Llanidloes lamb abattoir by ABP Food Group has raised concerns among Welsh sheep farmers over reduced

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Avian flu confirmed at Lancashire poultry farm - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/edux5l
Avian flu confirmed at Lancashire poultry farm - Farmers Weekly

Avian flu confirmed at Lancashire poultry farm - Farmers Weekly

A fresh outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed at a mixed commercial poultry farm near Garstang, Lancashire, prompting emergency

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Defra urged to step up bulk milk testing in TB fight - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/mvcB76
Defra urged to step up bulk milk testing in TB fight - Farmers Weekly

Defra urged to step up bulk milk testing in TB fight - Farmers Weekly

Farming, veterinary, and dairy industry organisations are urging the government to adopt bulk tank milk testing as an extra layer of defence against

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Alasdair Boden: Who says farmers need to live in farmhouses? - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/63yzYQ
Alasdair Boden: Who says farmers need to live in farmhouses? - Farmers Weekly

Alasdair Boden: Who says farmers need to live in farmhouses? - Farmers Weekly

We sought planning permission for a shepherd’s hut a couple of years ago, highlighting how the rental income from this would support our farming

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All together now: "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." 🎄🎅 Share your snaps 👇 ow.ly/wke850ZYGAj
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Contractor Comment: New shed up, 50,000t of straw secured - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/unhzAl
Contractor Comment: New shed up, 50,000t of straw secured - Farmers Weekly

Contractor Comment: New shed up, 50,000t of straw secured - Farmers Weekly

The balers are now hibernating at Orchard Farm near Warboys, Cambridgeshire, having been put to bed with several hundred slugs of grease, a handful of new

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First cases of Shamonda virus detected in GB cattle - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/VMsRVC
First cases of Shamonda virus detected in GB cattle - Farmers Weekly

First cases of Shamonda virus detected in GB cattle - Farmers Weekly

Sheep farmers are being urged to report suspected disease after the first cases of the midge-borne Shamonda virus were detected in Great Britain. The

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Farmer Focus: My patience seems to have paid-off - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/narmDx
Farmer Focus: My patience seems to have paid-off - Farmers Weekly

Farmer Focus: My patience seems to have paid-off - Farmers Weekly

I would like to think I have been fairly patient this year. We started drilling the hybrid rye and barley on 22 September and finished a couple of days

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Plant-based dairy swap raises iodine concerns, study finds - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/oAEbZv
Plant-based dairy swap raises iodine concerns, study finds - Farmers Weekly

Plant-based dairy swap raises iodine concerns, study finds - Farmers Weekly

Replacing dairy with plant-based alternatives like oat and almond milks could increase the risk of inadequate iodine intake among teenage girls and young

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Farmer Focus: New grazing challenges heifer immunity to ticks - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/ZVVpak
Farmer Focus: New grazing challenges heifer immunity to ticks - Farmers Weekly

Farmer Focus: New grazing challenges heifer immunity to ticks - Farmers Weekly

It has been a welcome change to the weather here. With the drop in temperature and some much-needed rain, it is easy to forget how dry it was during the

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Opinion: Labour comment shows detachment from rural reality - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/myv1NH
Opinion: Labour comment shows detachment from rural reality - Farmers Weekly

Opinion: Labour comment shows detachment from rural reality - Farmers Weekly

It was odd to be told my evening plans were apparently part of a far-right fantasy that “never really existed”. Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, Labour’s minister

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How peas and beans can affect soil health and following crops - Farmers Weekly ebx.sh/wnm4Fe
How peas and beans can affect soil health and following crops - Farmers Weekly

How peas and beans can affect soil health and following crops - Farmers Weekly

New research shows that the remains of pea and bean crops left in fields after harvest can affect soil health and how well the next crop grows.

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