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Welsh government to pay 100% of tree planting costs
Farmers Weekly Higher payment rates for woodland creation will be paid to Welsh farmers in a bid to encourage more tree planting. The funding provided will now cover 100% of tree planting costs to help the Welsh government…
Daily Infographic: Texas and New Mexico led US crude oil production in 2022
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Scots demand 80% of future funding goes to farmers as direct payments
Farmers Weekly NFU Scotland is demanding that four-fifths of all future support to agriculture should be made as direct payments to farmers, as Scotland moves towards a new post-Brexit policy from 2025 onwards. The demand is…
High Court rejects legal challenge over fast-growing broilers
Farmers Weekly A High Court judge has rejected a legal challenge brought by animal welfare campaigners over the use of fast-growing broiler chickens for meat consumption. The Humane League UK, which brought the legal…
Call for £5m fund to set up regional food hubs in England
Farmers Weekly A group of food and farming organisations is urging Defra to inject £5m into a pilot fund to kickstart food hubs in England and enhance national food security. Sustain, the Sustainable Food Trust, the Soil…
EU-era farm payment system limiting ELM flexibility
Farmers Weekly Concern has been raised that the EU-legacy IT system used by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is limiting the amount of flexibility that can be offered to farmers participating in the Environmental Land…
Right to delinked payments can be traded in 2024
Farmers Weekly A late rule change means that businesses which did not make an English Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) claim in 2023 may now benefit from delinkage by selling their reference amount, which is based on claims made in…
‘State of Freight’ for May: No signs of 2nd-half recovery
FreightWaves’ “State of Freight” webinar for May offered little optimism that demand for cargo capacity will return at any point this year. Craig Fuller, FreightWaves CEO and founder, said he doesn’t see any signs of a…
UP, train engineers reach ‘historic’ deal addressing work-life balance
Union Pacific and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have reached a “historic” tentative agreement that seeks to give engineers a more predictable work schedule, the two groups said Wednesday. The…
The barge carrier craze of the 1970s
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and…
