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VegetablesAt Dyson Farming Research in Lincolnshire, trials are testing late foliar potassium for dry matter, seaweed and microbial biostimulants, low-emission nitrogen products and floral tramlines that draw hoverflies to eat aphids.
AgrotechCalifornia software firm FarmX has acquired Iowa-based Amos Power, whose 3-tonne twin-track electric tractor works fields and orchards for four to eight hours, and plans to combine it with its sensor-based Perceptive Navigation autonomy.
AgrotechCatchmentAI's Probcast shows growers all 18 Met Office simulations behind a forecast, with traffic-light spray windows. A Defra Adopt project led by Northamptonshire farmer Stuart Tabernor seeks 70 growers to measure its value.
LivestockThe Veterinary Medicines Directorate warns that BTV-3 vaccines are prescription-only and cannot be passed between keepers, after reports of sales on social media, as confirmed bluetongue cases in Great Britain reach 3,338.
EnvironmentThe Environment Agency has put Yorkshire in drought after its fifth-driest April-September on record, England's third drought in five years, while the Met Office warns of wetter, stormier weather that could bring run-off and erosion.
LivestockThe Welsh government will accept membership of Red Tractor, Pasture for Life and FAWL as evidence for the Measure and Plan steps of the Sustainable Farming Scheme's animal health cycle, cutting duplicated paperwork and vet costs.
AgribusinessNFU Mutual's Farm Fires report puts 2025 damage at £150m, over £400,000 a day, with east of England costs nearly tripling; the NFU wants better-funded rural fire services and a national wildfire strategy.
LivestockDynamic lighting that changes colour and intensity through the 37-day crop improved feed conversion from 1.5 to 1.47 in four broiler houses at IEC Poultry, saving an average £3,580 a crop.
CropsCertis Belchim's Areli, combining cyazofamid with valifenalate, a fungicide that also acts as a plant-defence elicitor, is registered in the UK for late blight in potatoes, with a full commercial launch in spring 2027.
LivestockSixty Acres Farm near Truro averaged 12,351 litres a cow in 2025 on two milkings a day, which herd owner James Johns puts down to a simple, consistent system rather than chasing yield.
AgribusinessLand agents in Cumbria, Wales, Devon and Somerset say auctions are still drawing strong local and overseas bidding, with several blocks of bare land selling well above their guides.
HealthOn World Mental Health Day the DPJ Foundation's Kate Miles said drought, wildfires and bluetongue have piled pressure on farmers and asked them to take stock and seek support before winter.
OpinionSally Ormiston of Rural Solutions argues in Farmers Weekly that diversification has become a long-term strategy for resilience and should begin with what a family wants to achieve.
