Home-grown vegetables made up just over half (53%) of total UK supply last year, highlighting a growing reliance on imports. This marks a stark change to ...

The 2025 Farmers Weekly Awards finalists have been chosen. Read on to find out more about the 45 innovative farmers, entrepreneurial contractors, expert ...

Personal base stations To be completely independent, the answer is to install your own base station. These can be expensive (£10,000 or more) if sourced from mainstream brands, but there are some ...

Some 61% of British farmers would grow GM crops if it were legal to do so, a Farmers Weekly survey has revealed. The survey, conducted in association with ...

Few details have survived of Charter’s first machine, but we know it powered a thresher and that the performance was probably satisfactory because a further five or six Charter tractors were ...

UK agriculture is undergoing huge and rapid changes – and while that means opportunities for some farmers, many others are finding the uncertainty and upheaval challenging. Growers and livestock ...

The European Union has approved controversial plans for the Dutch government to forcibly buy out livestock farms as part of plans to cut nitrogen emissions. Two schemes with a total budget of €1 ...

Safe Stop procedure The Farm Safety Partnership’s Safe Stop campaign promotes a procedure that all machinery operators should use before exiting their vehicle or leaving equipment. If followed ...

All poultrykeepers will be required to log their flocks on the national register this autumn – even if they own just a few birds in a backyard flock.

The Dutch government is planning to buy up and shut down almost 3,000 farms in a bid to meet tough EU greenhouse gas emissions targets. The targets ...

If the current global crisis has been a time to think about food and those who produce it, it should also be a time for some of us to rethink how we can ...

The government is looking at ways to speed up the construction of a new electricity transmission network to meet demand in urban areas and its net-zero targets. Farmers Weekly asks how farmers ...