What opportunities does new biomass strategy offer farmers?
Farmers Weekly The area of land devoted to perennial biomass crops has remained stubbornly low, despite an aspiration to increase the use of home-grown biomass in the power, heat and transport sectors over the past two decades. According to government statistics, in 2020 around 121,000ha of land – or just over 2% of the agricultural […]
Farming groups rally round Proud to Farm push for fair prices
Farmers Weekly The area of land devoted to perennial biomass crops has remained stubbornly low, despite an aspiration to increase the use of home-grown biomass in the power, heat and transport sectors over the past two decades. According to government statistics, in 2020 around 121,000ha of land – or just over 2% of the agricultural […]
NFU Cymru president suffers devastating farm fire
Farmers Weekly Swathes of “tick laden” bracken will soon dominate Scottish hillsides, farm leaders have warned, with the one chemical that can control the plant likely to be permanently removed from the options available. The product, Asulox, was delisted by the Scottish government in June last year, while the authorities in England granted an emergency […]
Scots fear permanent loss of chemical bracken control
Farmers Weekly Swathes of “tick laden” bracken will soon dominate Scottish hillsides, farm leaders have warned, with the one chemical that can control the plant likely to be permanently removed from the options available. The product, Asulox, was delisted by the Scottish government in June last year, while the authorities in England granted an emergency […]
‘Fury’ as Welsh government cuts rural affairs budget
Farmers Weekly Swathes of “tick laden” bracken will soon dominate Scottish hillsides, farm leaders have warned, with the one chemical that can control the plant likely to be permanently removed from the options available. The product, Asulox, was delisted by the Scottish government in June last year, while the authorities in England granted an emergency […]
Editor’s view: Red Tractor anger puts NFU in tricky spot
Farmers Weekly Swathes of “tick laden” bracken will soon dominate Scottish hillsides, farm leaders have warned, with the one chemical that can control the plant likely to be permanently removed from the options available. The product, Asulox, was delisted by the Scottish government in June last year, while the authorities in England granted an emergency […]
TFA calls for a halt to Dartmoor destocking
Farmers Weekly The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has called for Natural England’s livestock destocking policy on Dartmoor to be paused while a review is undertaken. David Fursdon, Lord-Lieutenant of Devon, was appointed by Defra earlier this year to oversee a review of the management of protected sites in Dartmoor. See also: Pressure to destock Dartmoor […]
Opinion: SFI is appealing, but will it help nature?
Farmers Weekly I am sure many of us have seen at least the headlines about the latest State of Nature report, and the inevitable farmer bashing that forms a big part of the conclusions. The State of Nature document highlights endangered wildlife, from mammals and millipedes to fungi and plankton. The most threatened group of […]