Love and loneliness: how farmers are beating the odds
Farmers Weekly Anna Jones is a freelance journalist and founder of Just Farmers, a group putting practical farmers in touch with the wider media. Here she shares her thoughts on Jeremy Clarkson as an ambassador for farming I don’t spend much time thinking about Jeremy Clarkson. So when Farmers Weekly asked me for my views […]
Government stakes green ambitions on farming transformation
Farmers Weekly Newly released government figures which show a drop in fly-tipping cases fail to reflect the true situation in the countryside, say farming organisations. Defra’s annual fly-tipping statistics show local authorities dealt with 1.09 million incidents in the year ending March 2022. Despite a year-on-year decrease of 3%, this still represents an equivalent of […]
Fly-tipping figures trigger strong farmer backlash
Farmers Weekly Newly released government figures which show a drop in fly-tipping cases fail to reflect the true situation in the countryside, say farming organisations. Defra’s annual fly-tipping statistics show local authorities dealt with 1.09 million incidents in the year ending March 2022. Despite a year-on-year decrease of 3%, this still represents an equivalent of […]
Cost-of-living crisis sees young parents cut down on meat
Farmers Weekly More than one-quarter of parents with young children (27%) are cutting down on their meat consumption to save money as the cost-of-living crisis bites, according to new research. The survey, from Red Tractor and YouGov, found 39% of families with children aged 11 or under are replacing meat with carbohydrates such as bread […]
Eustice warns Pacific trade plans put hormone beef ban at risk
Farmers Weekly Government plans to join the trans-Pacific free-trade area will put the UK’s ban on hormone-treated beef at risk, former Defra secretary George Eustice has warned. The UK is in the final stage of negotiations for accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which is a multilateral deal between 11 […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 141: New environmental payments for farmers
Farmers Weekly A group of in-calf cows broke out onto the A25 in Surrey last weekend after Thames Water cut livestock fencing to fix a burst water main. A private boundary fence at Manor Farm, Surrey, was left unattended with a large gap by the water company, which resulted in five Belted Galloway cows walking […]
Farmstrong rural wellbeing tour kicks off in Scotland
Farmers Weekly A group of in-calf cows broke out onto the A25 in Surrey last weekend after Thames Water cut livestock fencing to fix a burst water main. A private boundary fence at Manor Farm, Surrey, was left unattended with a large gap by the water company, which resulted in five Belted Galloway cows walking […]
Cow breakout after Thames Water cut fence to fix burst pipes
Farmers Weekly A group of in-calf cows broke out onto the A25 in Surrey last weekend after Thames Water cut livestock fencing to fix a burst water main. A private boundary fence at Manor Farm, Surrey, was left unattended with a large gap by the water company, which resulted in five Belted Galloway cows walking […]