‘Pitiful’ policy in Scotland forcing farmers to scale back
Farmers Weekly Industry leaders in Scotland have warned that farmers are scaling back and holding off on long-term investments after a “pitiful” policy announcement from rural affairs secretary Mairi Gougeon. At the NFU Scotland (NFUS) conference in Glasgow last week, Ms Gougeon unveiled an ‘Agricultural Reform Route Map’, along with a list of measures farmers […]
Defra sets the record straight on farming support budget
Farmers Weekly Defra has rejected claims in a national newspaper that farmers in England now receive substantially less government support in farm payments than they did before Brexit. An article in The Observer published on Sunday 12 February claimed that farm businesses received “only a tiny fraction of slashed EU subsidies” last year, adding that […]
Opinion: Rethinking the plastic problem from the ground up
Farmers Weekly Having got all excited the other day about the 280 new options for Countryside Stewardship Plus, I found myself re-examining the now rather bog-standard Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) agreement I signed up to on a whim last autumn. Like so many things, we’re occasionally in the slightly absurd situation that we’re keener on […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 143: Cost-of-living crisis set to hit farm incomes
Farmers Weekly Two cows have been rescued after falling into a slurry pit on a farm in Cornwall. Emergency services were called to the farm in Burlawn, near Wadebridge, at 7.35am on Saturday 11 February. They used specialist equipment, including inflatable rescue paths, and the farmer’s telehandler to safely remove the cows from the 4m-deep […]
Firefighters rescue two cows from 4m slurry pit
Farmers Weekly Two cows have been rescued after falling into a slurry pit on a farm in Cornwall. Emergency services were called to the farm in Burlawn, near Wadebridge, at 7.35am on Saturday 11 February. They used specialist equipment, including inflatable rescue paths, and the farmer’s telehandler to safely remove the cows from the 4m-deep […]
Opinion: Family farms will suffer most in the financial squeeze
Farmers Weekly Welcome to another edition of This Week In Farming, our round-up of the best news, views and features from the past seven days. Here’s five of the best topics we’ve covered this week and a look ahead to what’s coming up in the next edition of the FW podcast. Welsh and Scottish policy […]
3 take-home messages from the 2023 AHDB AgriLeader Forum
Farmers Weekly Welcome to another edition of This Week In Farming, our round-up of the best news, views and features from the past seven days. Here’s five of the best topics we’ve covered this week and a look ahead to what’s coming up in the next edition of the FW podcast. Welsh and Scottish policy […]
This Week in Farming: Fert strategies, Welsh farm policy and debt
Farmers Weekly Welcome to another edition of This Week In Farming, our round-up of the best news, views and features from the past seven days. Here’s five of the best topics we’ve covered this week and a look ahead to what’s coming up in the next edition of the FW podcast. Welsh and Scottish policy […]