This Week in Farming: Royal Welsh, new Amarok and Shorthorns
Farmers Weekly Hello and welcome back to This Week in Farming – your weekly update on the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. Here are five of the biggest topics we’ve covered this week and a look ahead to what’s coming up in the next edition of the FW podcast. Trees versus […]
Government failure to protect fertiliser market poses food security risk
Farmers Weekly A government failure to step in and protect the domestic production of nitrogen fertiliser and ammonia poses a major food security risk, MPs have warned. Nitrogen fertiliser is used by UK farmers on 89% of crop area for tillage crops such as wheat, barley, potatoes and sugar beet and 59% of grass, but […]
Severn Trent water leak cost us £600,000, says turf farmer
Farmers Weekly The Yorkshire farming family behind the successful Wold Top Brewery and Yorkshire’s first single-malt whisky distillery is using the latest precision mapping technology in its drive towards a low-carbon, sustainable future. Carbon and soil health are a major focus at Hunmanby Grange and third-generation farmer Tom Mellor has long recognised the importance of […]
How Wold Top Brewery barley grower lowered carbon footprint
Farmers Weekly The Yorkshire farming family behind the successful Wold Top Brewery and Yorkshire’s first single-malt whisky distillery is using the latest precision mapping technology in its drive towards a low-carbon, sustainable future. Carbon and soil health are a major focus at Hunmanby Grange and third-generation farmer Tom Mellor has long recognised the importance of […]
Editor’s view: Three choices for Welsh on tree targets
Farmers Weekly The Yorkshire farming family behind the successful Wold Top Brewery and Yorkshire’s first single-malt whisky distillery is using the latest precision mapping technology in its drive towards a low-carbon, sustainable future. Carbon and soil health are a major focus at Hunmanby Grange and third-generation farmer Tom Mellor has long recognised the importance of […]
Low emissions charge hits farmer’s digestate deliveries
Farmers Weekly A Berkshire farmer says a company refused to make deliveries or collections to and from his farm as it did not want to pay the new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) charge. Colin Rayner, a director of J Rayner & Sons based in Horton, said he placed an order for digestate to be […]
Welsh farmers seek flexibility over ‘blanket’ tree planting
Farmers Weekly Farmers are demanding flexibility from the Welsh government over its plans to require all farms in Wales to plant trees on 10% of land to access future farm payments. Increasing concern over “blanket” tree planting for farmers to be eligible for payments in the universal tier of the upcoming Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) […]
Net zero slowdown will intensify transition pain for farmers
Farmers Weekly The primary function of farmers is to grow crops and raise livestock for food production, while retaining natural ecosystems as custodians of the countryside. But many Welsh farmers feel their essential role as food producers is under threat from multiple competing demands for land, and the need to tackle climate change and help […]