This Week in Farming: Clarkson, beef, beet and cheese
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to This Week in Farming, your catch-up on this week’s unmissable content from Farmers Weekly. Here are five hot topics that we’ve been taking a close look at this week, and a reminder of where you can listen to the FW podcast. Scottish turbulence Scottish farmers and crofters were left […]
Get ready for Storm Otto, warns NFU Mutual
Farmers Weekly As Storm Otto approaches, farmers in the north of England and Scotland are being urged to prepare for 75mph gusts and up to 50mm of rainfall after the Met Office issued a yellow warning. Otto is the first storm to impact the UK this storm season, which began in September last year. Rural […]
How upland farmers are pooling resources to plug funding gap
Farmers Weekly As Defra starts to roll out more of its Environmental Land Management scheme, ministers and civil servants have been quick to claim there is plenty in it for upland farmers. Its recent announcement on new standards for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) emphasises that upland farmers will have “more […]
Editor’s view: Scots government has learned nothing from English
Farmers Weekly As Defra starts to roll out more of its Environmental Land Management scheme, ministers and civil servants have been quick to claim there is plenty in it for upland farmers. Its recent announcement on new standards for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) emphasises that upland farmers will have “more […]
Cyclone Gabrielle damage to NZ farms ‘unprecedented’
Farmers Weekly The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) will be leaving its Stoneleigh Park offices in April and relocating to a much smaller premises on the Middlemarch Business Park near Coventry Airport. At 16,000sq feet, the new offices will be about half the size of its existing headquarters, and will save the levy-organisation an […]
Growers warned to look out for stolen Norfolk agrochemicals
Farmers Weekly The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) will be leaving its Stoneleigh Park offices in April and relocating to a much smaller premises on the Middlemarch Business Park near Coventry Airport. At 16,000sq feet, the new offices will be about half the size of its existing headquarters, and will save the levy-organisation an […]
Cornish young farmer wins NFYFC Farm Safety Award
Farmers Weekly The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) will be leaving its Stoneleigh Park offices in April and relocating to a much smaller premises on the Middlemarch Business Park near Coventry Airport. At 16,000sq feet, the new offices will be about half the size of its existing headquarters, and will save the levy-organisation an […]
AHDB to save £500,000/year in move to smaller headquarters
Farmers Weekly The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) will be leaving its Stoneleigh Park offices in April and relocating to a much smaller premises on the Middlemarch Business Park near Coventry Airport. At 16,000sq feet, the new offices will be about half the size of its existing headquarters, and will save the levy-organisation an […]