Author: TFF News

A combine that went up within two hours of starting work sparked five weeks of hard-won experience on The Farming Forum: 110 contributions on what starts combine fires, from failed bearings and DPF regens to static on plastic panels, and what prevents them. Insurers discount premiums 15% for accredited suppression systems, yet neither manufacturers nor dealers offer them on new machines. After a second tinder-dry harvest, that distribution gap is the question the trade is left holding.

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A resident’s video of a slurry tanker rounding a village corner has The Farming Forum asking whether the poor road reputation of young tractor drivers is deserved. Across 101 contributions, farmers and contractors debated speed, phone use, a Mickey mouse tractor test, telematics that already log every speed reading, and whether recruitment pressure is putting the least experienced staff on the most public-facing job. The unresolved question: does the industry act on its own data before a formal test arrives?

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Breeding sheep sales opened 2026 in full cry, with mule shearlings £50 a head up on last year and champion pens at £330. But a two-month conversation on The Farming Forum shows a trade bracing itself: bluetongue spreading, drought-starved grass, ewes going home unsold at recent sales and warnings that the money may run out before the sheep do. What farmers are saying about prices, replacements and margins, counted and quoted, with the full analysis and slide deck for the trade.

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The farm vote has stopped being Reform’s by default. Eight months after Reform took a clear majority of The Farming Forum’s election poll, a repeat run has the Conservatives back in front, Restore taking a sixth of the ballot from a standing start, and one voter in ten refusing to pick any party at all.

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