Opinion: Cattle breeders in upbeat mood
Farmers Weekly The positive mindset at the recent British Cattle Breeding Conference left conference chairman and AHDB senior knowledge exchange manager Amy Fawcett-Hughes feeling optimistic about the future. Where do you go after you’ve had the best week of your career and one of the most enjoyable of your life? This was the thought running […]
NFU Conference 2023: Defra to use ‘every tool’ to tackle TB
Farmers Weekly The positive mindset at the recent British Cattle Breeding Conference left conference chairman and AHDB senior knowledge exchange manager Amy Fawcett-Hughes feeling optimistic about the future. Where do you go after you’ve had the best week of your career and one of the most enjoyable of your life? This was the thought running […]
EA lists top 10 reasons for inspection failure in 2022
Farmers Weekly Farm inspectors have revealed the top reasons for non-compliance one year into the Environment Agency’s (EA) new era of heightened farm scrutiny in England. Of the 5,590 improvement actions issued to almost 3,500 English farms by the EA in 2022, more than one third was for: The quality of the silage clamp Failure […]
NFU Conference 2023: Seasonal farmworkers to be paid living wage from April
Farmers Weekly Milk production in Wales will plummet by 336m litres/year unless farmers are given more generous allowances to spread slurry and fertiliser on their land under the new all-Wales nitrate vulnerable zone rules, farming unions have warned. The unions are pressing the government to go ahead with its proposed new licensing scheme, to allow […]
Welsh milk production threatened by planned nitrogen limits
Farmers Weekly Milk production in Wales will plummet by 336m litres/year unless farmers are given more generous allowances to spread slurry and fertiliser on their land under the new all-Wales nitrate vulnerable zone rules, farming unions have warned. The unions are pressing the government to go ahead with its proposed new licensing scheme, to allow […]
NFU Conference 2023: Spencer announces small abattoir aid
Farmers Weekly Livestock farmers in Shropshire are being warned to be extra vigilant following reports of sheep being found illegally butchered in fields. West Mercia Police says it has received reports of sheep being killed, slaughtered and skinned in the county. In the latest incident on Thursday 16 February, a farmer in the Little Stretton […]
Shropshire farmer discovers sheep butchered in field
Farmers Weekly Livestock farmers in Shropshire are being warned to be extra vigilant following reports of sheep being found illegally butchered in fields. West Mercia Police says it has received reports of sheep being killed, slaughtered and skinned in the county. In the latest incident on Thursday 16 February, a farmer in the Little Stretton […]
Opinion: Insecticide incentive could ‘offshore’ problems
Farmers Weekly One aspect of the recently announced new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme that caught the media’s attention was the payment to farmers to not use insecticides. The tone of the reporting was that this was a win-win-win for agriculture, consumers and the environment. Nowhere in the coverage did anyone raise the possibility that […]