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94-year-old farmer competes at Glamorgan ploughing match

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly At 94, Basil George is almost certainly one of the UK’s oldest ploughmen, turning over the soil on Sunday (10 September) at the ploughing match he co-founded in South Wales.

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Will’s World: Ploughing and the pursuit of happiness

Farmers Weekly

Catching up with friends. […] The post Will’s World: Ploughing and the pursuit of happiness appeared first on Farmers Weekly A nice pint in a pub with an open fire. Seeing the sun rise. Singing along to my favourite song on a car journey. Eating a decent steak.

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Irish Ploughing Championships sees stacks of new kit launched

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly There is a lot more to the Irish National Ploughing Championships than competitive inversion of soil. Farmers Weekly headed to Ratheniska, County Laois, on the hunt for new machinery.

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Farmer Focus: Glad to own machinery in wet drilling season

Farmers Weekly

Chasing the plough with the drill in between showers resulted in us slowly but surely getting […] The post Farmer Focus: Glad to own machinery in wet drilling season appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly The clocks have gone back and the dark nights are here – but let’s be honest, it’s felt like winter for a while now.

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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

But will the current trend away from ploughing towards direct drilling and the accompanying use of glyphosate bring the benefits advocates claim, or could this make matters even worse? Richard Young follows on from his article, Speed the plough or the direct drill and sprayer?

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Photo of the Week: Fordson tractor displays memorial poppy

Farmers Weekly

The photo was submitted to our photo competition gallery by Kerry Adams, who said: “At a ploughing match on a cold winter’s day I noticed a friend warming his hands up [on] his Fordson. Farmers Weekly Our photo of the week is this timely picture displaying a Remembrance poppy on a vintage Fordson tractor.

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Farmer Focus: Keeping on top of drainage pays dividends

Farmers Weekly

On reflection, it might have been wiser to have shallow ploughed them in early August, and then got away with one pass […] The post Farmer Focus: Keeping on top of drainage pays dividends appeared first on Farmers Weekly It has taken four to five passes to get a seed-bed.

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