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21 Aug 2018

Your one stop shop for all agricultural sales. Visit the UK’s most comprehensive auction directory.

British Farming Awards

21 Oct 2021

There are few occasions when farmers come together to celebrate all they have achieved but the British Farming Awards is one of those rare times.

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21 Oct 2021

Marts the Heart Awards aim to recognise the livestock auctions driving the industry forwards and giving the most back to the farming community.

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24 Nov 2021

The CropTec show is for all farmers and agronomists seeking the latest information on innovative methods to increase profits from crop production.

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Great Glen Challenge goes virtual

27 Jul 2021

The Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RSABI), the charity supporting people in Scottish agriculture, is looking for participants for its virtual Great Glen Challenge event taking place on Friday, August 27.

2 Sisters warns of worst food shortages in 75 years

26 Jul 2021by Alex Black

Scottish dairy farm numbers continue to fall

25 Jul 2021by Alex Black

View from the Top: Auctioneers adapt through decades of change

25 Jul 2021by Jez Fredenburgh

1.2 billion tonnes of food wasted on farms globally

25 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

African swine fever poses looming threat to UK pork producers

24 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

Agricultural vehicles still ‘deadly’ modes of transport

23 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

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Test your skills, you could win £250 plus a £250 ram voucher in the 2020 sheep stockjudging competition

09 Jul 2021by Marianne Curtis

Wheat area up 26 per cent on 2020

08 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

Shocking 70 per cent rise in farm fatalities

08 Jul 2021

Government upholds ‘both ways or no-ways’ seed potato ban

07 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

Two farmers killed in separate farm incidents days apart

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Berryholme herd celebrates in style

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Salopian Solid Gold smashes Suffolk sheep record at 200,000gns

26 Jul 2021by Angela Calvert

The term ‘gene editing’ is confusing consumers

26 Jul 2021by Alice Dyer

Ag students offered £5,000 bursary through Jordans and PCF

26 Jul 2021

Pottinger launches forage wagons capable of handling tractors of up to 500hp

26 Jul 2021by Alex Heath

New project to explore precision fungicide application

24 Jul 2021by Alice Dyer

Arla brings Lactofree production to the UK

23 Jul 2021by Alex Black

SHROPSHIRE COUNTY SHOW 2021: Limousin tops beef inter-breed

23 Jul 2021by Hannah Noble

Strategic reseeding lifts grass yields on upland farms

23 Jul 2021

Successful transition for autumn calving herds

23 Jul 2021

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Will summer shows be the same post-Covid?

23 Jul 2021by Ben Briggs

Funding to boost business resilience

23 Jul 2021

Fendt gives optimistic view from the top and launches a host of new products

22 Jul 2021by Alex Heath

Steps to prevent heat stress in animals

22 Jul 2021

Two quad bikes stolen from Great Yorkshire Show

22 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

The term ‘gene editing’ is confusing consumers

26 Jul 2021by Alice Dyer

Ag students offered £5,000 bursary through Jordans and PCF

26 Jul 2021

Pottinger launches forage wagons capable of handling tractors of up to 500hp

26 Jul 2021by Alex Heath

2 Sisters warns of worst food shortages in 75 years

26 Jul 2021by Alex Black

Scottish dairy farm numbers continue to fall

25 Jul 2021by Alex Black

View from the Top: Auctioneers adapt through decades of change

25 Jul 2021by Jez Fredenburgh

1.2 billion tonnes of food wasted on farms globally

25 Jul 2021by Hannah Binns

New project to explore precision fungicide application

24 Jul 2021by Alice Dyer

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Badger cull leads to remarkable drops in TB in cattle

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Tributes paid to Farmers Guardian journalist Louise Hartley

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Countrywide Farmers enters administration after sale falls through

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Why I joined the Women's Institute: 'it’s a women’s movement, not just jam and Jerusalem'

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Rural book club - book of the month: The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison

The UK’s pivot towards Asia-Pacific must not come at the expense of farmers

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