This Week in Farming: Sugar row, Kaleb Cooper and delinking
Farmers Weekly Welcome to another edition of This Week in Farming, where we bring you the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. But before we get started, here’s a question: To what extent is agriculture still a sexist industry? We asked that question back in 2014, and now we’re asking farmers, both […]
Government faces legal action over sewage sludge on farmland
Farmers Weekly An environmental campaign group is taking legal action against the government, accusing it of axing its pledge to regulate microplastics and chemicals in sewage sludge spread over farmland. Fighting Dirty, which comprises campaigners George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hynd, argues that the government reneged on its commitment to bring the regulation of […]
Editor’s view: Culture change needed to secure future food supply
Farmers Weekly Of all the supply chains to be found in British agriculture, it is the ones in the egg and poultry sectors that are so often held up as examples of best practice. Devoid of taxpayer support, stakeholders from primary producers and egg packers to meat processors, and even retailers, have learned to work […]
How to restore ‘forgotten’ farm ponds for wildlife
Farmers Weekly Of all the supply chains to be found in British agriculture, it is the ones in the egg and poultry sectors that are so often held up as examples of best practice. Devoid of taxpayer support, stakeholders from primary producers and egg packers to meat processors, and even retailers, have learned to work […]
Q&A: New CLA president sets out her ambitions for farming
Farmers Weekly HS2 was heralded by the Conservative government as an integral part of its Northern Powerhouse strategy, a high-speed rail project that would bridge the North-South divide and rebalance the economy. Announcing the project in 2014, then-chancellor George Osborne declared that he wanted to create a Northern Powerhouse that would connect “not one city, […]
Herefordshire farmer loses £39,000 in machinery ad fraud
Farmers Weekly HS2 was heralded by the Conservative government as an integral part of its Northern Powerhouse strategy, a high-speed rail project that would bridge the North-South divide and rebalance the economy. Announcing the project in 2014, then-chancellor George Osborne declared that he wanted to create a Northern Powerhouse that would connect “not one city, […]
Natural England spent £18k of taxpayers’ cash on SSSI hearing
Farmers Weekly HS2 was heralded by the Conservative government as an integral part of its Northern Powerhouse strategy, a high-speed rail project that would bridge the North-South divide and rebalance the economy. Announcing the project in 2014, then-chancellor George Osborne declared that he wanted to create a Northern Powerhouse that would connect “not one city, […]
Analysis: Farmers forced to sell up by HS2 need clarity
Farmers Weekly HS2 was heralded by the Conservative government as an integral part of its Northern Powerhouse strategy, a high-speed rail project that would bridge the North-South divide and rebalance the economy. Announcing the project in 2014, then-chancellor George Osborne declared that he wanted to create a Northern Powerhouse that would connect “not one city, […]