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Tenant farmers to get legal rights to access Welsh agri-scheme

Farmers Weekly Defra has issued a strong rebuttal over claims it is planning to water down or scrap Environmental Land Management (ELM), its flagship post-Brexit agri-environment scheme. Over recent days, reports in the national media that Liz Truss may change or delay the proposed ELM schemes sparked an angry backlash from some of the UK’s […]

Defra rejects claims its ELM scheme could be axed

Farmers Weekly Defra has issued a strong rebuttal over claims it is planning to water down or scrap Environmental Land Management (ELM), its flagship post-Brexit agri-environment scheme. Over recent days, reports in the national media that Liz Truss may change or delay the proposed ELM schemes sparked an angry backlash from some of the UK’s […]

Opinion: Might history repeat itself as election looms?

Farmers Weekly I tend to feel melancholic at this time of year. I don’t know if it’s the annual shock of the nights rapidly drawing in, or the nagging guilt that my daughters have gone back to school without me having spent as much time with them as I’d have liked over the summer, or […]

Clarkson and 2,000 farmers demand halving of rural red tape

Farmers Weekly Prominent farmers including Jeremy Clarkson and Gareth Wyn Jones have signed a letter demanding that half of all rural red tape in England is removed. The letter, which accuses the UK government of seeking to “micromanage every acre’’, has the support of 4,725 people including some well-known figures. It says: “For years the […]

High-tech drones used to disrupt hare coursing in Thames Valley

Farmers Weekly Police forces across the country are increasingly turning to technology in the fight against crime, and the use of high-performance drones is giving rural officers in the Thames Valley an edge over hare coursers. Covering large areas of farmland across Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire is a huge challenge for Thames Valley Police (TVP) […]

Tractor driver arrested after three police cars rammed

Farmers Weekly A tractor driver has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three police cars were rammed in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Officers investigating a report of a drink driver attended an address in the Tattenabuddagh Lane area of Fivelmiletown in the early hours of Saturday 24 September. While they were at the […]

Organic experts needed to shape government policy

Farmers Weekly Welcome back to This Week in Farming, your weekly update of the best news and views from the Farmers Weekly website. Every Saturday we round-up the five most eye-catching topics from the website that you might have missed and look ahead to what’s coming up in the FW Podcast. Return of politics With […]