Yellow Wellies launches bespoke health-and-safety policy tool
Farmers Weekly The Farm Safety Foundation, also known as Yellow Wellies, has launched an online tool to help farmers build their own health-and-safety policy, as figures show that farming accounts for 18% of all workplace deaths in the UK, despite employing just 1% of the country’s workforce. Many farms still do not have a health-and-safety […]
Retrofit tracker launched to find stolen Starfire receivers
Farmers Weekly Cambridgeshire firm Traakit has adapted a regular GPS tracker for use in John Deere’s Starfire 6000 receiver, allowing it to be followed and recovered if stolen. Its launch is timely, with NFU Mutual reporting a surge of equipment thefts, up 30% in the first quarter of this year, and thieves likely to take […]
Opinion: Time to call time on the sexist ‘dinosaurs’
Farmers Weekly In writing this piece I’m conscious of following closely on the heels of Farmers Weekly’s current back-page incumbent, Will Evans. Normally, I would avoid revisiting a subject which has been so ably and recently covered, but given its importance I will for once break this rule. Being a 6ft tall privately educated white […]
How selection pressure is building a resilient beef herd
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to This Week in Farming, our round-up of eye-catching news, features and the biggest topics that affected farming this week. Here are the five biggest topics from the past seven days, plus a reminder to listen to this week’s FW podcast. See also: Farmers Weekly meat sector clean-up campaign gains […]
This Week in Farming: Jail sentence, campaign ‘win’ and work balance
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to This Week in Farming, our round-up of eye-catching news, features and the biggest topics that affected farming this week. Here are the five biggest topics from the past seven days, plus a reminder to listen to this week’s FW podcast. See also: Farmers Weekly meat sector clean-up campaign gains […]
Lawyers for John Price appeal farmer’s 12-month jail sentence
Farmers Weekly Lawyers acting for Herefordshire farmer John Price have lodged an appeal against a judge’s decision to imprison the farmer for works he carried out along the protected River Lugg. They claim the judge’s decision on Thursday (20 April) to impose a 12-month custodial sentence on Mr Price was too harsh and did not […]
First Milk receives King’s award for enterprise
Farmers Weekly Farmer-owned dairy co-operative First Milk has been awarded the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise, ahead of the coronation on 6 May. It is one of 148 UK business which have received the award this year for outstanding achievement. First Milk was presented with the award for its work relating to sustainable development, with […]
Escaped bull shot dead by armed police in Cheshire
Farmers Weekly Police marksmen shot and killed a bull on the loose after it escaped from a farm in Cheshire. Residents were warned to stay indoors after the agitated animal was “charging at people” in Wells Avenue, Haslington, before 9am on Wednesday 19 April. The owner and police officers attempted to bring the marauding bull […]