Natural England denies claims of backdated appointments

Farmers Weekly Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your Saturday round-up of the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days as chosen by the editor. Before we start, a question… what’s the furthest you’ve gone to escape British weather? For Defra farm minister Mark Spencer, the answer this […]

Bull semen tanks full of straws stolen in Northern Ireland

Farmers Weekly Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your Saturday round-up of the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days as chosen by the editor. Before we start, a question… what’s the furthest you’ve gone to escape British weather? For Defra farm minister Mark Spencer, the answer this […]

Nuffield scholar calls farming the least diverse sector in the UK

Farmers Weekly Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your Saturday round-up of the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days as chosen by the editor. Before we start, a question… what’s the furthest you’ve gone to escape British weather? For Defra farm minister Mark Spencer, the answer this […]

This Week in Farming: Sprayers, savers and RT reformers

Farmers Weekly Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your Saturday round-up of the best content from Farmers Weekly in the past seven days as chosen by the editor. Before we start, a question… what’s the furthest you’ve gone to escape British weather? For Defra farm minister Mark Spencer, the answer this […]

Minister pledges support for flood-hit Scots farmers

Farmers Weekly Farmers have vented their frustration after a council sold a 40ha tenant farm to Forestry England to grow trees. A farmer had rented Hondslough Farm, on the northern edge of Delamere Forest south of Runcorn, from Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaCC) to grow hay/haylage, and only two seasons ago it yielded a […]

Defra commits to methane suppressants to cut emissions

Farmers Weekly Farmers have vented their frustration after a council sold a 40ha tenant farm to Forestry England to grow trees. A farmer had rented Hondslough Farm, on the northern edge of Delamere Forest south of Runcorn, from Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaCC) to grow hay/haylage, and only two seasons ago it yielded a […]

Council sells off tenant farm for tree planting

Farmers Weekly Farmers have vented their frustration after a council sold a 40ha tenant farm to Forestry England to grow trees. A farmer had rented Hondslough Farm, on the northern edge of Delamere Forest south of Runcorn, from Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaCC) to grow hay/haylage, and only two seasons ago it yielded a […]

Defra downgrades species reintroduction ambitions

Farmers Weekly Rural affairs secretary Mairi Gougeon has committed to spending ‘by far the majority’ of any future agriculture budget on conditional direct support for farmers.   The Scottish government has set out plans for a post-Brexit scheme made up of four tiers – with tiers 1 and 2 paying direct support and tiers 3 […]