2023-08-19 14:20:26
This Week in Farming: TB focus, combine insight and arrests
Welcome back to This Week in Farming, our regular round-up of the best Farmers Weekly content and a look ahead to the next edition of the FW podcast.
This week we have a special focus on Bovine TB, a forecast of a rush to exit the dairy sector, the latest harvest news and an in-depth look at how well the latest combines – big and small – are working on farm.
Bovine TB Takes Toll
Bovine TB is taking a heavy toll on people, cattle and wildlife. This week’s special focus on the dread-inducing disease reveals the burden it’s placing on farmers and vets, as well as the financial cost, based on a survey of farms in Wales.
Slack was down, with issues loading pages and sending messagesColumnist Will Evans, whose herd threw up an inconclusive result in one heifer at the most recent test, talks movingly about being a pawn in a dysfunctional system that could be serving so much better.
If you’re in a high-risk area and only have time for one article on the topic, make it this one – a run through of safe cattle handling advice on testing day. Please stay safe out there.
Dairy Demand Decline
Is there too much milk in the world? That’s what the global markets are telling us, with a sharp drop in the much-watched Global Dairy Trade price this week.
The news came as the NFU revealed that an increasing number of its members think they will stop producing milk by 2025 as the price dips below the cost of production for many.
Steam Trap Market to hit USD 6.2 Bn by 2032, Says GlobalOutput has held up well despite significant contraction in farmer numbers in recent decades, suggesting that there’s plenty of producers that remain bullish well into a downturn – but should the industry support ever-greater consolidation?
Harvest Update: Quality Varies
It’s been another week of frantic activity across much of the country, with wheat pouring into stores between showers.
Traders and grain stores are describing quality as “ridiculously variable”, depending on localised weather conditions, a state of affairs that Farmer Focus writer Robert Drysdale would certainly recognise.
On-farm yields of winter wheat show a wide range of 6.2-13t/ha, according to data gathered up to 8 August by Adas for AHDB.
Rail passengers set for disruption as engineering work between Chesterfield and Sheffield leads to delays and diversions – with no trains to some Derbyshire stationsLatest Combine Insights
Will it definitely be time to change your combine after this season?
A decision of this financial magnitude takes a lot of thinking through, so we went to speak to farmers who’ve done just that.
If it’s sheer output over a large number of hectares you need, then the John Deere X9 is currently the heavyweight champion.
The team at Buckminster Farm in Lincolnshire have two of the monsters and here’s what they have to say.
Medicated Feed Market Size, Key Players Analysis and Forecast To 2029 – Evonik, DowDuPont, DSM, AdisseoIf it’s something smaller and a bit more nimble, then the Claas Trion could be an option.
Sentry Cambridgeshire’s farm manager Peter Keates gives us the lowdown on this machine, which will set you back £350,000 delivered on farm (including header).
Good/Bad Week
Finally, the first try-out of a new feature – who’s had a good week and who’s had a bad one?
Well, it’s definitely been a good week for North Yorkshire-based farm and country supply business Bata shareholders, who wanted it to remain a co-operative, after they won a key vote to stop a move to make it a private limited company.
SkyWater Technology to Participate in Jefferies Semiconductor, IT Hardware & Communications Technology SummitAnd it’s definitely been a bad week for four people arrested in relation to the collapse in 2021 of Scottish grain merchant Alexander Inglis & Son.
Police Scotland said: “Three men aged 48, 49 and 75 years, and a 76-year-old woman, have been arrested in connection with a fraud following a police enquiry relating to a business registered in the Ormiston area of East Lothian.”
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