Farmers Weekly Defra is to embark on a “summer of roadshows” at agricultural shows and events to encourage more farmers to engage in new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. Trudy Harrison, Defra environment minister!-->…
Farmers Weekly Four new members have been appointed to Scotland’s food standards board in a bid to improve food safety. Christina Bichan, Paula Charlesworth, Phillip Couser, and former farm vet Kate Richards have joined the!-->…
Farmers Weekly If ideas and enterprise stacking rather than scale and focus make a farming business resilient, then Doug Wanstall is onto a winner. A business that at its largest was contract-farming 1,900ha of arable and!-->…
Farmers Weekly Where there’s a will, there’s a way – though it sure does take a lot of determination to break into farming if you’re not from a farming background. Harnessing that entrepreneurial spirit seems high up the list!-->…
Farmers Weekly I had hoped to write this after cutting and clamping pre-maize first-cut and already be planning cultivations for maize, but the wet weather has me rethinking plans. We haven’t had weather to dry the land!-->…
Farmers Weekly Regular readers of this column will have gathered by now that I have a spectacularly vivid imagination. I’ve always adored any kind of fiction, especially of the adventure variety, and a 1980s childhood!-->…
Farmers Weekly Over the past three years, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have shown a gradual climb in the number of students enrolling to study land-based and agricultural degrees. In the 2021-22!-->…
Farmers Weekly One of the largest farms to come to the market in Cornwall for some time has just been launched. Siblyback Farm lies on the edge of Bodmin Moor in a very private setting just above the well-known lake of the!-->…
Farmers Weekly Dotted across the UK, our four Contractor Comment contributors will be giving us regular updates on the highs and lows of running an agricultural contracting business in their area. Having introduced our Devon!-->…
Farmers Weekly As a friend and lender to Britain’s farmers, we’ve always recognised and supported the vital role they play in conserving our environment – and now hopefully the government’s recently-published Green Finance!-->…
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