Video: Combine harvests crop under suspended solar panel array
Farmers Weekly Researchers in France have successfully combined solar energy and crop production by stringing photovoltaic panels above the height of machinery. The trial conducted by French power company TSE Energy looked at vine production and soya bean crops on a farm in the north-east of France. Its aim was to assess whether solar energy […]
Editor’s View: Another PM resigns, what on earth next?
Farmers Weekly Eagle-eyed viewers will note this is not the editorial that appeared in this week’s magazine. A weekly that attempts to ride the news agenda occasionally gets bucked off when the pace of change accelerates and it’s certainly been one of those weeks in Westminster. All politicians lose power the longer they go on […]
Unions call for Welsh agriculture bill to protect farm jobs
Farmers Weekly Farm leaders have called for changes to the Agriculture (Wales) Bill to help safeguard farming jobs and tenancies. The Welsh government bill was published in September and set out four Sustainable Land Management (SLM) objectives for an agricultural strategy to achieve. These covered food production, biodiversity, landscape, and social and cultural issues. It […]
Illegal meat discovery at Dover highlights Swine fever risk
Farmers Weekly The shocking discovery of illegal meat in lorries at Dover port has intensified concerns about the threat of an outbreak of deadly African swine fever (ASF) breaching the UK’s shores. Officials from Dover Port Health Authority (DPHA) inspected 22 lorries originating from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland over a 24-hour period earlier this […]
Analysis: Rock report recommendations on farm tenancies
Farmers Weekly Better opportunities for tenant farmers to access Defra’s emerging environmental and productivity schemes, plus a revamp of “outdated” tenancy legislation, are among the key recommendations from the Tenancy Working Group. Launched in February of this year, the group was chaired by Conservative peer Baroness Kate Rock, supported by eight industry experts, to help […]
Tenant farmers hit by Natural England anti-grazing stance
Farmers Weekly A tenant farming family is battling Natural England after it refused to give them livestock grazing rights on common land on Dartmoor that has been grazed for centuries. Roy and Helen Radmore, their son Mark and their predecessors have been farming on Dartmoor for decades. Previously, they and other graziers on the common […]
Direct farm support at livestock precision tech, says think tank
Farmers Weekly A tenant farming family is battling Natural England after it refused to give them livestock grazing rights on common land on Dartmoor that has been grazed for centuries. Roy and Helen Radmore, their son Mark and their predecessors have been farming on Dartmoor for decades. Previously, they and other graziers on the common […]
Daera issues three new wild bird control general licences
Farmers Weekly A tenant farming family is battling Natural England after it refused to give them livestock grazing rights on common land on Dartmoor that has been grazed for centuries. Roy and Helen Radmore, their son Mark and their predecessors have been farming on Dartmoor for decades. Previously, they and other graziers on the common […]