Harvest

Leading rural insurer NFU Mutual has launched a checklist to help keep farmers and workers safe through what could be one of the most challenging harvests since the Second World War.

Crops received a much-welcomed drink as the first rainfall in months for some fell across many areas of the UK last week.

Last week much of the UK received its first splash of rain in months, after May 2020 was named the driest since records began.

A physiotherapy career is not a natural precursor to farming, but Hannah Darby has brought insights from outside agriculture back to the family farm. Chloe Dunne reports.

The Government has announced it will relax the crop diversification requirements known as the three crop rule for farmers for 2020.

Despite the challenging season, around 90-95 per cent of AHDB Recommended List (RL) cereals trials are on track to reach harvest this summer.

When Claas added its latest harvesting technology to the straw walker Lexions, a Cambridgeshire farm was keen to try a pre-series model. Jane Carley reports.

A 23-year-old Case IH 2188 Axial Flow provides cost-effective harvesting for one Wiltshire farm, as Geoff Ashcroft found out during a recent visit.

In 2019, Claas announced a host of improvements to the Jaguar 970 self-propelled forage harvester, with new cab controls and a new six-cylinder engine, usurping the previous models V8. Simon Henley spoke to the firm involved in testing the preproduction model and who is now running two of the new six-pot Jags.

Reducing the weed seeds lost into the field before and during harvest shows potential to cut weed burdens. Jane Carley finds out more.