Farmers increase demands for Welsh 10% tree cover rethink
Farmers Weekly Wales’ rural affairs minister will be urged to inject more flexibility into the government’s new farm support scheme when she meets farmers at next week’s Royal Welsh Winter Fair – or risk its failure. Welsh farmers fear they must sacrifice efficiency to achieve Lesley Griffiths’ contentious eligibility requirement for farms joining the Sustainable […]
Devastated farmer loses £6,000 in online tractor scam
Farmers Weekly Wales’ rural affairs minister will be urged to inject more flexibility into the government’s new farm support scheme when she meets farmers at next week’s Royal Welsh Winter Fair – or risk its failure. Welsh farmers fear they must sacrifice efficiency to achieve Lesley Griffiths’ contentious eligibility requirement for farms joining the Sustainable […]
Slurry storage grants opening for farmers for up to £250,000
Farmers Weekly Farmers in England will be able to apply for the Slurry Infrastructure grant from 6 December. The grant is designed to improve on-farm slurry storage, reduce pollution and improve use of organic matter. The first round of funding will be overseen by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) with £13m available for livestock farmers […]
ABP to work with suppliers to cut carbon emissions 25% by 2030
Farmers Weekly Red meat processing giant ABP is setting its UK suppliers the challenge of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions from beef and lamb production by as much as 25% by 2030. In its ambitious £1.5m Prism 2030 programme of research, the processor will work with 350 farms and with Harper Adams University to establish […]
Dogs seized after sheep killed and injured in North Wales
Farmers Weekly Red meat processing giant ABP is setting its UK suppliers the challenge of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions from beef and lamb production by as much as 25% by 2030. In its ambitious £1.5m Prism 2030 programme of research, the processor will work with 350 farms and with Harper Adams University to establish […]
Opinion: It’s not just farmers who are feeling the squeeze
Farmers Weekly In early 17th century England, a chronicler of rural life noted a new social trend. Farmers were moving their farmyards out of the villages and towns so that they stood alone in the countryside “like crows nests”. You could say it was the start of an alienation process that we still see writ […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 133: Why are UK supermarkets importing eggs?
Farmers Weekly In this episode, why are UK supermarkets importing eggs rather than paying British farmers more to offset higher production costs? We examine the impact on your farm business as the UK government unveils a huge round of spending cuts. See more: Farmers Weekly Podcast: Farm budget, lamb prices and AHDB plan As the […]
Dorset farmers horrified after pig illegally butchered in field
Farmers Weekly Warning: Graphic images below A Dorset farmer has spoken of his horror at finding the remains of one of his free-range pigs that had been illegally slaughtered and butchered in a field overnight. James Hull made the gruesome discovery on Sunday morning (20 November) after realising a group of his Tamworth pigs had […]