Libs Dems demand extra £1bn/year for farming
Farmers Weekly Fears for next year’s UK maize crop disaster averted as the government agrees to new seed dressing licenses. Are your cows ready to go digital? Are you ready to take up your passports? Defra launches the Digital Cattle Movement System consultation. Just how do one bank’s farming customers feel at the moment with […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 175: Maize seed success and digital cows
Farmers Weekly Fears for next year’s UK maize crop disaster averted as the government agrees to new seed dressing licenses. Are your cows ready to go digital? Are you ready to take up your passports? Defra launches the Digital Cattle Movement System consultation. Just how do one bank’s farming customers feel at the moment with […]
Opinion: Farmers are the climate change scapegoats
Farmers Weekly There are two distinct groups of people associated with net zero. Consultants who tell us everything we need to know on the subject and have a vested interest in the climate emergency, because let’s be honest, this newly created industry pays them a good wage. Then there are the farmers, who are on […]
This Week in Farming: Milk fears, new Quadtrac and SFI opens
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 the five key topics the FW team have been obsessing over as the rain lashed down and autumn began in earnest. Milk haulage woes Millions of litres of milk are […]
Editor’s view: Welcome to the Farmers Party conference
Farmers Weekly Upland farmers in the Lake District say their traditional sheep farming communities face an uncertain future due to reductions in stock numbers to comply with environmental policy. Keith Rowand, an upland farmer with long-standing heritage in the Lake District, has written to King Charles to raise concerns about the preservation of traditional upland […]
Agroforestry: Can it work for farming as well as environment?
Farmers Weekly Upland farmers in the Lake District say their traditional sheep farming communities face an uncertain future due to reductions in stock numbers to comply with environmental policy. Keith Rowand, an upland farmer with long-standing heritage in the Lake District, has written to King Charles to raise concerns about the preservation of traditional upland […]
Upland sheep farmers in Lake District fear for future
Farmers Weekly Upland farmers in the Lake District say their traditional sheep farming communities face an uncertain future due to reductions in stock numbers to comply with environmental policy. Keith Rowand, an upland farmer with long-standing heritage in the Lake District, has written to King Charles to raise concerns about the preservation of traditional upland […]
FSA unveils streamlined approach to gene-edited crops
Farmers Weekly Plant breeders have welcomed proposals by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for a new streamlined, science-led approach to regulating gene-edited crops in England. An FSA board meeting on Wednesday 20 September discussed plans for the regulation of precision bred food and feed products under the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023. Until recently, […]