Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 127: Government plans for farming and food
Farmers Weekly In this episode, the government unveils plans to boost farm productivity and food security. But how exactly will it do it? How was it for you? We have the verdict on this year’s wheat harvest – which varieties performed – and which didn’t. We visit the farming couple who taught themselves to milk […]
This Week in Farming: Awards, polling and new green metal
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to a special Farmers Weekly Awards edition of This Week in Farming. This is your place to catch up with the biggest and best news of the past seven days, and nothing has been bigger at FW this week than our annual Awards bash where we bring the industry together […]
Opinion: Farming bankruptcies inevitable without swift action
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to a special Farmers Weekly Awards edition of This Week in Farming. This is your place to catch up with the biggest and best news of the past seven days, and nothing has been bigger at FW this week than our annual Awards bash where we bring the industry together […]
Farmers Weekly Awards 2022: Farming Champion of the Year
Farmers Weekly This year’s award goes not to just one farmer – but a whole nation’s farmers – the farmers of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion in February, Ukraine’s “agrarians” have faced horrific conditions, battling to keep farms running while fearing for their lives and those of their families. It has taken courage, resolve and […]
Widow to carry on farming in memory of her ‘wonderful’ late husband
Farmers Weekly This year’s award goes not to just one farmer – but a whole nation’s farmers – the farmers of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion in February, Ukraine’s “agrarians” have faced horrific conditions, battling to keep farms running while fearing for their lives and those of their families. It has taken courage, resolve and […]
Editor’s view: Waiting for farm policy stability is a mug’s game
Farmers Weekly This year’s award goes not to just one farmer – but a whole nation’s farmers – the farmers of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion in February, Ukraine’s “agrarians” have faced horrific conditions, battling to keep farms running while fearing for their lives and those of their families. It has taken courage, resolve and […]
Welsh Government announces changes to NVZ rules
Farmers Weekly Farm leaders in Wales have welcomed a package of changes to nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) regulations that include a three-month delay to the implementation of an annual holding nitrogen limit. The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations began a staged introduction in April 2021. Part of that would have seen a […]
AHDB to outline five-year spending plan at November meeting
Farmers Weekly Farm leaders in Wales have welcomed a package of changes to nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) regulations that include a three-month delay to the implementation of an annual holding nitrogen limit. The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations began a staged introduction in April 2021. Part of that would have seen a […]