A new trailer-mounted separator unit has been unveiled for contractors and multi-site farms looking to improve slurry quality before application. Manufactured by Vogelsang, the XSplit unit enables contractors to offer separation as an additional service to customers. Alternatively, it can be used on farm to separate slurry or digestate.... Read more

The production of low carbon, plant-based insulating blocks could generate additional farm income and tackle labour shortages, say experts. Encouraging farmers to diversify into making sustainable building materials for use on their own farms – or for construction in the local area – could benefit their own businesses, communities... Read more

• Three times more carbon dioxide • Crop deserves our closer scrutiny • Call to consider soil carbon loss Maize crops grown on drained peat soils emit three times more carbon dioxide than burning natural gas, suggests a study. Researchers say the finding highlights the need to consider soil... Read more

High-performing winter wheat tops all previous yields recorded since trials began in 2017 Group 3 winter wheat Bamford achieved a yield of 12.2t/ha, the highest ever recorded yield for any variety in the 8 year history of the GrainCo continuous wheat trial, according to Yorkshire farmer Steve Buckle and... Read more

Sixty-eight jobs in Lincolnshire have been saved following the pre-pack sale of the Burdens Group. Headquartered in Boston, the company supplied a wide range of farm and groundcare machinery from leading manufacturers including New Holland, Horizon, Amazone and JPM Trailers. The Burdens Group offered both new and used agricultural... Read more

• D-Day looms for farm budget • NFU wants farm voice heard • Minister ‘fights tooth and nail’ Farmers are being urged to join industry calls for a bigger budget for agriculture as the government prepares to unveil its spending plans. The Autumn Budget will be announced on 30... Read more

Tributes have been paid to Leicestershire farmer and former NFU livestock board chairman Charles Sercombe, who has died following a cancer diagnosis. Mr Sercombe farmed a commercial flock of 1,000 sheep and arable enterprises with his wife Helen and family at Sandlands Farm – a county council smallholding at... Read more

A group of Lincolnshire farmers has secured the funding needed to improve the environment by trading natural capital. The Northern Lincolnshire Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) is a farmer-led cooperative working to increase biodiversity, improve water quality, achieve net carbon farming by 2040 and generate new trading opportunities. Financial returns... Read more

Farm leaders have ramped up calls on the government to increase its budget for farming – arguing that doing so is vital to maintain UK food security. NFU president Tom Bradshaw made the call on 13 August – the day of the year that the UK would run out... Read more

The farming community has paid tribute to a Staffordshire farmer respected for his in-depth knowledge and for championing the industry over many decades. Growers and livestock producers across the country have remembered Robert Lockhart, of Drayton Bassett, who died aged 71 on 22 June after being diagnosed with cancer.... Read more