Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly New Holland’s CR11 might have hogged the Agritechnica headlines but neither it nor the John Deere X9 can hold a candle to the Nexat combine in terms of harvesting output. The gantry-style 1,100hp tractor unit is pictured paired with a 15.5m-wide,

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Maize 321

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. Read More CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. Read More CLAAS is celebrating 50 years of Jaguar self-propelled forage harvesters. In this report, CLAAS. In this report, CLAAS.

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Forage Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 18, 2024

New Holland is redesigning and restyling its line of forage harvesters. Up front, farmers will notice a renewed version of New Holland’s UltraFeed grass pickup on its range of FR forage harvesters for 2024. The UltraFeed will be available in working widths of 3.o, The UltraFeed will be available in working widths of 3.o,

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Forage Harvest Harvester Harvesting 265

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Potato harvest is nearly complete for RG Abrey Farms in Norfolk, which has been pioneering an innovative camera-based system to drive yield and marketability across its potato crop.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop Yield 264

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Farmers Weekly Thank you to everyone who entered the 2023 Farmers Weekly Harvest Photography Competition. We had more than 1,600 brilliant entries that captured a real sense of this summer’s harvest. It was great to showcase the hard work carried out by our nation’s farmers.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting 264

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Weather conditions have drastically slowed harvest, with lodging difficulties delaying the combines. A sliver of light is that overall winter barley yields concluded well this season.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly It’s been a difficult stop-start harvest across the country, but how have our regular featured Arable Insights farmer panel fared?

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 279

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly With a return to rainy weather after 10 September, harvest slowed and was eventually completed on 3 October. This is not unusually late, but it felt like a long harvest, starting on 20 July, only a day later than last year.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 258

Farmers Weekly

JULY 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly Over the past couple days combines have been re-emerging in the South, and first impressions are starting to be made on the harvest 2023 to come. Essex Harvest began on Monday (17 July) afternoon for Carl Juhl, farm manager at Little Farms in Saffron Walden, with Craft winter barley in at 16.7%

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 225

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly Hotter summers and record temperatures are expected to become more commonplace for future harvests, therefore increasing the risk of farm fires. The […] The post Harvest heatwaves likely to lead to surge in farm fires appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farming 274

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly Grain traders are reporting wide variations in grain qualities, with this harvest very much proving the luck of the draw, depending on local conditions. Even so, milling wheat and malting barley have had average to above-average yields this year.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Grain 246

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 10, 2023

A newly-tasselled corn field indicates that silage harvest is only 45 to 50 days away. As producers speed down the runway toward silage harvest takeoff, Pioneer Seeds Canada nutritionist Ashley Knapton says now’s the time to look at key factors that will influence silage quality and how a well-managed silage crop can contribute to farm.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Seeding 243

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

ha this harvest, the specific weight held up with […] The post Harvest 2023: New winter barley impresses in Yorkshire appeared first on Farmers Weekly The two-row feed variety yielded 8.5-9.5t/ha

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 244

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 5, 2023

Farmers Weekly This week’s Photo of the Week comes from 14-year-old aspiring photographer Noah, who has captured the harvest progress beautifully. His brothers and father run an agricultural contracting business and have recently taken on a 49ha (120-acre) farm.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 246

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 is coming to an end throughout the country as spring barley is cut in the North, with this week’s heatwave keeping moisture contents below the drying threshold. Morayshire This week’s high temperatures, in the mid-20Cs, have been good for crops, says Frank Thomson, near Clochan.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 202

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Why so early? Why so early?

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Seeding Harvest Harvester Harvesting 307

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Throughout the harvest season, we are updating our handy map with the latest data from the AHDB’s 2023 oilseed rape Recommended List harvest results. Use the map below to find the five highest yielding oilseed rape varieties at your nearest trials site.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farming-mad Thomas, aged 9, is pictured following every minute of the harvest at his family farm in Norfolk on board a paddle board. See more: Submit your Harvest 2023 photos to our gallery […] The post Photo of the Day: Harvest paddling along nicely appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Family Farming 246

Farmers Weekly

JULY 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly Combines might have got off the starting line early for some, but wet weather has blown in and it is certainly putting a damper on harvest. Farmers Weekly speaks to a range of growers in the South West to find out the latest harvest updates.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 227

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

Farmers Weekly There’s still time to enter the Farmers Weekly annual harvest photo competition – giving one lucky winner the opportunity to see their work on the magazine’s front cover. Just head to our online Harvest 2023 gallery and follow the simple instructions. Uploading your pictures is quick and easy.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmers Weekly Harvest 2023 is now finished all bar 10ha of lentils, which look like they will be ready at the end of the month. Like last year, they were grown as a bi-crop with camelina, which is supposed to act as a pea-stick to hold them up for harvest.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Farmers Weekly A switch to grain maize could be the answer for farmers with maize crops still standing because harvest has been hampered by wet ground conditions. This is according to Michael Carpenter, technical director of feed preservation specialist Kelvin Cave.

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Maize Harvest Harvester Harvesting 215

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly Throughout the harvest season, we are updating our handy map with the latest data from 2023’s AHDB wheat Recommended List harvest results. Use the map below to find the five highest-yielding wheat varieties at your nearest trials site.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 232

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 12, 2023

Farmers Weekly One photo submitted to Farmers Weekly‘s Harvest 2023 photo gallery this week really hits the nail on the head when it comes to summarising the stop-start harvest that farmers have been contending with up and down the country.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farming 246

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Farmers Weekly Many farmers will be breathing a sigh of relief as the maize harvest draws to a close, after weeks of grappling with the wet weather. That’s the situation for HC Beales in Norfolk, a family-run farming business and contracting company, mostly harvesting maize for AD plants and cattle customers.

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Maize Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly This has been the harvest that nearly broke me. This year’s harvest had its potential decimated in the last six weeks of the growing season. Talk about stress: only in farming can you have so much disappointment after so much promise.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farming 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly Just 5% of the winter wheat and spring barley crop in Britain has been cut in a delayed wet weather harvest, although these figures will have risen sharply after a dry spell in the second half of last week.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 231

Farmers Weekly

JULY 28, 2023

Farmers Weekly July has been the wettest month since October last year for Lincolnshire grower Colin Chappell, who has battled harvest rainstorms including 92mm in 16 days, and lodged winter barley. We’ve been harvesting the winter barley for weeks now – cutting at every moment physically possible, and we’re still not finished.

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Lodging Harvest Harvester Harvesting 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly The wheat harvest picked up pace in the recent dry spell, with yields surprisingly good after such a wet and stormy July, although milling quality is a concern with proteins generally low and Hagbergs under pressure. Suffolk father-and-son growers Carl and Adam Driver have finished 155ha of Extase with a yield of 8.7-9.7t/ha,

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 243

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I can foresee that potato movement might be later than normal which is […] The post Harvest 2023: Potato yields hit by dry early summer appeared first on Farmers Weekly “In digs, yields look pleasing, although quality is a little variable in places, but nothing I’m majorly concerned about,” says Andrew. “I

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Yield Harvest Harvester Harvesting 264

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 25, 2023

What does black electrical tape have to do with protecting your state of mind at harvest? For Megz Reynolds, during a particularly bad harvest, covering up the yield monitor with it was a small boundary she set to help ease her mind and focus on the task at hand. It may seem small, but small things. It may seem small, but small things.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 243

Farmers Weekly

JULY 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Throughout harvest 2022, we are updating our handy map with the latest data from 2022’s AHDB winter barley Recommended List harvest results. Use the map below to find the five highest-yielding winter barley varieties at your nearest AHDB trials site.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 216

Farmers Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

Farmers Weekly Somerset grower Charles Quick managed to catch a break between the rainstorms to make a start on winter wheat harvest, before this week’s forecast of heavy rain. 9t/ha and a specific weight of 74kg/hl […] The post Video: Snatch-and-go start to Somerset winter wheat harvest appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 246

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What if there was a way to boost the number of acres harvested in a day by 20 to 50 per cent while reducing fuel consumption by a similar amount? Read More What if there was a way to boost the number of acres harvested in a day by 20 to 50 per cent while reducing fuel consumption by a similar amount?

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Acre 318

Farmers Weekly

JULY 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Winter wheat harvest started two weeks earlier than usual for Dorset farm manager Tom Matthews, making him one of the earliest growers in the UK to cut wheat this season.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Yield 246

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly More than one-third of the total winter wheat crop area across Great Britain has now been cut, but farmers are still catching up on harvest due to variable weather.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Crop 190

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly With the changing weather fortunes we ended up harvesting the driest wheat at only a slightly higher moisture than the wettest oilseed rape. Hagbergs were great, specific weights decent, but well below last year’s highs, and proteins way down.

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Straw Harvest Harvester Harvesting 245