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Farmers Weekly The Prince’s Countryside Fund, the charity founded by His Majesty King Charles to support family farms and rural communities, has officially become the Royal Countryside Fund. Following King Charles’ coronation…

Farmers Weekly Power corrupts, as the old saying goes, but power also reveals. A politician on the climb will often seek not to take firm positions on anything anything as they’ll be left high and dry when circumstances…

Farmers Weekly A new award worth £10,000 for an idea that contributes to improving the sustainability of farming has been launched by the Green Farm Collective. The motivation behind the Green Innovation Award, which is open…

Farmers Weekly Normal service has resumed up here, with more rain in the past week than we have had in the past two months. It can stop anytime. I’m glad we managed to get a second cut in when we did as there hasn’t been a…

Farmers Weekly As the August deadline for submitting applications for mid-tier Countryside Stewardship (CS) approaches, farm consultants are being thwarted by problems with the Rural Payment Agency’s (RPA) online service.…

Farmers Weekly One Welsh farmer has integrated contract finishing with Gamechanger into his wider beef and fruit growing business to add efficiency and certainty into the business. As part of a bid to streamline systems on…

Farmers Weekly Are you a shorts person? I feel like I need to ask this very important question, as I’ve noticed a visible divide in the farming community between those who stick to the traditional dirty jeans, even on the…

Farmers Weekly The area of farmland publicly marketed across Great Britain rose during the first half of this year to 85,606 acres, according to Savills research. This is 16% higher than in the same period last year and a…

Farmers Weekly Few combine harvesters leave a contracting business in better condition than when they arrived, but that’s usually the case for the cosseted examples run by Lancashire outfit A Johnson Agricultural Contractors…