BT’s digital switch must avoid rural connectivity ‘black hole’
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome to This Week in Farming, your regular round-up of the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. Here’s a selection of the key topics the FW team have been focused on as party conference season kicked off and the latest State of Nature report once again pointed the […]
Draft bill aims to deliver sustainable farming for Scotland
Farmers Weekly Supporting farmers and crofters to produce food more sustainably, work with nature and reduce emissions is at the heart of new draft legislation for Scotland. The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill (PDF) will reform how Scottish government will support farming and food production, with the aim of making Scotland a global leader […]
Editor’s view: Unresolved funding dilemma at heart of Welsh policy
Farmers Weekly A pioneering project that aims to get hospitality businesses of all kinds selling local food is being trialled in Yorkshire. The initiative, a collaboration between NFU North East and the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce Hospitality Forum, was launched at a roundtable discussion in May. It follows the publication of the […]
How Yorkshire farmers are breaking into the out-of-home market
Farmers Weekly A pioneering project that aims to get hospitality businesses of all kinds selling local food is being trialled in Yorkshire. The initiative, a collaboration between NFU North East and the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce Hospitality Forum, was launched at a roundtable discussion in May. It follows the publication of the […]
UK meat jobs at risk as government pulls trade support
Farmers Weekly Jobs in the UK meat industry will be put at risk unless the government continues to meet the cost of certification for businesses moving product between Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI), the sector has warned. Since January 2021, costs associated with the certification needed to move meat between GB and NI […]
Worrying surge in farm fatalities, HSE data reveals
Farmers Weekly Farming and science organisations have hit back at suggestions that intensive farming is mainly to blame for nature decline in the British countryside. The claim is made in the latest State of Nature report, compiled every few years by more than 60 research and conservation groups. It says there has been an average […]
Farmers fight back against claims of malpractice
Farmers Weekly Farming and science organisations have hit back at suggestions that intensive farming is mainly to blame for nature decline in the British countryside. The claim is made in the latest State of Nature report, compiled every few years by more than 60 research and conservation groups. It says there has been an average […]
Delay to building rules adds to income uncertainty for farmers
Farmers Weekly A delay to the introduction of building rules designed to offset environmental damage has been described as “bitterly disappointing” by farm leaders. New rules around biodiversity net gain (BNG), where developers would have to demonstrate a minimum 10% uplift in biodiversity by enhancing existing habitats or creating new ones, were due to be […]