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Council plan to spend rural cash on roundabout rejected
Farmers Weekly A Norfolk council has been told by Defra to rethink its plans to spend almost £1m of rural development cash on a new multimillion pound roundabout project. Last September, Defra allocated £915,788 of funding to…
Farming charities merge to extend rural support offering
Farmers Weekly Two well-known farming charities, the Addington Fund and Forage Aid, have joined forces to extend their support network to farmers and farmworkers most in need. The Addington Fund, which provides housing,…
‘Outdated’ Defra control systems putting food safety at risk
Farmers Weekly Food safety in the UK is being put at risk by “outdated, inefficient and expensive” Defra IT systems that are “at constant risk of failure or cyber-attack”, according to a new report. The damning dossier from…
Show more ambition in ELM to support better soils, Defra told
Farmers Weekly Defra must show more ambition in its support for healthy soils as the foundation for sustainable food production in its Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes, industry leaders say. Cross-party MPs from…
Ceres Group to merge with property and planning specialist
Farmers Weekly A rural consultancy and its property division are joining forces with a planning specialist in a move designed to strengthen its position in the property sector. Ceres Group, an umbrella business for Ceres…
Lipsey Logistics blames weak freight market for layoffs
Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Lipsey Logistics has confirmed that it was forced to cut a number of jobs as the result of a “constrained and declining freight market.” “We have taken initiative for restructuring, controlling…
Farmer Focus: Milk price nosedive put improvements on ice
Farmers Weekly The past month has brought another 5 euro cents/litre (4.4p/litre) price drop from our milk processor Tirlán/Glanbia, bringing the March base milk price to 44.08 euro cents/litre (39p/litre). This follows…
Carbon offsetting ‘pricing Welsh farmers out of land market’
Farmers Weekly Mass tree planting is driving farmers off the land in one upland region of Wales. Four farms around the rural community of Abergwesyn, Powys, have been bought by investors from outside agriculture, including a…
How new tech aims to improve soil carbon measurement
Farmers Weekly Measuring soil organic carbon accurately has always been difficult. But with the rise in interest in carbon trading in agriculture, as well as the other benefits from managing carbon stocks in soils, companies…
