Conservatives haemorrhaging rural support, says YouGov
Farmers Weekly The Conservative Party is haemorrhaging support in rural areas, and it must develop policies that appeal to farmers and countryside dwellers if it wants to arrest the decline, a leading pollster has suggested. Patrick English, associate director at YouGov, said support for the Conservatives among rural communities has reversed with the Labour Party […]
MPs told to act now to expand seasonal farmworker numbers
Farmers Weekly Farmers have delivered an impassioned plea to Liz Truss’s government to expand the Seasonal Worker Scheme (SWS), allowing more foreign workers to travel to the UK to harvest crops. Conservative MPs Mark Spencer and Sir Robert Goodwill were told by NFU president Minette Batters that it had been a “nightmare” trying to have […]
Minette Batters sets the record straight on ELM scheme
Farmers Weekly Farmers have delivered an impassioned plea to Liz Truss’s government to expand the Seasonal Worker Scheme (SWS), allowing more foreign workers to travel to the UK to harvest crops. Conservative MPs Mark Spencer and Sir Robert Goodwill were told by NFU president Minette Batters that it had been a “nightmare” trying to have […]
Farming couple plea for help as 58 sheep killed by flash floods
Farmers Weekly A Cumbrian farming couple has issued a desperate plea to their local authorities for help managing the River Derwent near Keswick after a flash flood led to the loss of 58 ewe lambs. Warning: graphic images below Dan Simpson and Ruby Cappleman of Seatoller Farm, Borrowdale, experienced the “worst day of our lives” […]
Ukranian farmer prays for liberation of dairy in Kherson
Farmers Weekly A dairy farmer in Ukraine is praying the country’s armed forces can liberate the Kherson region in the south-west of the country, so he can return to his farm without fear of arrest. When Russian president Vladimir Putin announced he was annexing four regions of Ukraine – Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – […]
Opinion: More needs to be done to market dairy beef
Farmers Weekly We are two-thirds of the way through calving our autumn block and I’m thankful that we have tightened it down to just six weeks this year. The exertions of 12 weeks of calving back in the spring are still fresh in the memory, and the 2023 season will come around equally quickly. I […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 126: ‘Mini-budget’ impact on farming and future of ELM
Farmers Weekly Farm, animal welfare and green groups have renewed calls for the government to ensure UK food production standards are met in post-Brexit trade deals. Ten groups expressed their concern over current import plans in a joint letter to the new international trade secretary Kemi Badenoch. The letter said trade deals already struck with […]
Joint call to uphold UK standards in trade deals
Farmers Weekly Farm, animal welfare and green groups have renewed calls for the government to ensure UK food production standards are met in post-Brexit trade deals. Ten groups expressed their concern over current import plans in a joint letter to the new international trade secretary Kemi Badenoch. The letter said trade deals already struck with […]