Meat processors face soaring costs employing overseas staff
Farmers Weekly Meat processors are paying huge additional sums to recruit overseas workers to bridge the shortfall in domestic workers, the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) says. UK meat companies are having to pay £10-£15,000 per person in one-off costs to bring staff in from as far afield as Asia. This is adding extra cost […]
Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 165: Farm deaths hit record high
Farmers Weekly The government’s failure to meaningfully address the climate and nature crises and support farmers risks the UK being unable to produce enough of its own food, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The IPPR’s study, Reaping the rewards: Cultivating a fair transition to farming (PDF), examines […]
Food security threatened by lack of government support, report warns
Farmers Weekly The government’s failure to meaningfully address the climate and nature crises and support farmers risks the UK being unable to produce enough of its own food, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The IPPR’s study, Reaping the rewards: Cultivating a fair transition to farming (PDF), examines […]
Farm Safety Week 2023: Farm fatalities worryingly high
Farmers Weekly The government’s failure to meaningfully address the climate and nature crises and support farmers risks the UK being unable to produce enough of its own food, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The IPPR’s study, Reaping the rewards: Cultivating a fair transition to farming (PDF), examines […]
Research quantifies role of cover crops in carbon capture
Farmers Weekly Five years of trial work in Northamptonshire have shown that cover crops in a direct drilling system removed 27t/ha of carbon dioxide equivalents, highlighting their role in reducing a farm’s carbon footprint. However, the trials also showed that 17t/ha of carbon dioxide equivalents can be lost from soil with deep tillage. See also: […]
Opinion: Footpath ‘horror stories’ simply stoke division
Farmers Weekly Five years of trial work in Northamptonshire have shown that cover crops in a direct drilling system removed 27t/ha of carbon dioxide equivalents, highlighting their role in reducing a farm’s carbon footprint. However, the trials also showed that 17t/ha of carbon dioxide equivalents can be lost from soil with deep tillage. See also: […]
Opinion: I’ve become a ‘heritage’ farming character at 50
Farmers Weekly Siwmae a croeso (hello and welcome) to a Welsh-led edition of This Week in Farming. Farm policy in Cymru is just one of five key topics that have been driving traffic to the Farmers Weekly website this week. Read on to find them all and what’s coming up in the next edition of […]
This Week in Farming: Welsh Ag Act, land prices and tanks
Farmers Weekly Siwmae a croeso (hello and welcome) to a Welsh-led edition of This Week in Farming. Farm policy in Cymru is just one of five key topics that have been driving traffic to the Farmers Weekly website this week. Read on to find them all and what’s coming up in the next edition of […]