This Week in Farming: Grain merchants, crime and blackgrass
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to another edition of This Week in Farming, your Saturday compendium of the best of Farmers Weekly from the past seven days. Here are the five topics that have driven the farming agenda this week and a look ahead to what’s coming up in the FW podcast. Rural crime on […]
Tractor driver in intensive care after road crash
Farmers Weekly A tractor driver is in intensive care in hospital following a road traffic accident in Suffolk. The driver, a man aged in his 30s, was driving a New Holland T7.230 tractor that was involved in a collision with an articulated lorry at the A140/A1120 junction at Little Stonham on Thursday (3 August). Local […]
No 10 food summit aims undermined by EU import check delays
Farmers Weekly A tractor driver is in intensive care in hospital following a road traffic accident in Suffolk. The driver, a man aged in his 30s, was driving a New Holland T7.230 tractor that was involved in a collision with an articulated lorry at the A140/A1120 junction at Little Stonham on Thursday (3 August). Local […]
Scots first minister hints at further limits on land ownership
Farmers Weekly What a odd assortment of companies the firms that buy the bulk of UK grain are. Run a finger down the column of names in this week’s markets story on profitability in the sector and you see everything from the long arm of the Chinese state (Cofco) to farmer co-ops (including Openfield and […]
New national unit leads fightback against farm thefts
Farmers Weekly What a odd assortment of companies the firms that buy the bulk of UK grain are. Run a finger down the column of names in this week’s markets story on profitability in the sector and you see everything from the long arm of the Chinese state (Cofco) to farmer co-ops (including Openfield and […]
Editor’s view: Diversity of buyers is a public good
Farmers Weekly What a odd assortment of companies the firms that buy the bulk of UK grain are. Run a finger down the column of names in this week’s markets story on profitability in the sector and you see everything from the long arm of the Chinese state (Cofco) to farmer co-ops (including Openfield and […]
Campaign to get game meat in Welsh schools and hospitals
Farmers Weekly A campaign is being launched to get game meat on the menu in hospitals and schools in Wales. The Welsh Game Fair will launch the new campaign at their second annual event, which will take place over the weekend of 9-10 September, at Faenol Estate, Bangor, north Wales. The organisers say venison, pheasant, […]
Video: Former SAS soldier on a mission to combat rural crime
Farmers Weekly Ex SAS soldier Mick Hawkes spent four years breaking into farm complexes under cover in Northern Ireland to combat the IRA. The covert operations mainly involved working against terrorism, looking for hidden devices, weapons and explosives. Mick and his military colleagues would spend days “doing lots of recce” before they did the move […]