Serving the Farming Industry across the Midlands for 35 Years
AF Interim Agricultural Inflation Index records a downward dip after years of spiralling costs

AF’s latest and Interim Aginflation Index has revealed that, for the first time in over three years, the average cost of farming inputs has decreased, falling by 2.55% in the six months to the end of March 2023.

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Coveted award for agri-tech innovation Hub

A new central hub building at South Lincolnshire’s latest Food Enterprise Zone has won ‘Development Project of the Year’ at the Greater Lincolnshire Construction and Property Awards.

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Farmer builds resilience with trees and hedges

The Woodland Trust has decades of experience helping farmers to make their businesses more economically and ecologically resilient with trees and hedges. We take a look at one landowner’s experience of planting with the Trust’s MOREhedges scheme.

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Farmers face ‘cliff edge’ following Spring Budget

NFU president Minette Batters has accused the government of failing to take food security seriosuly following last month’s Spring Budget.

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Retired farmer’s mission to support charities as tribute to his late wife

When dairy farmers Emyr and Evelyn Wigley retired, they planned to travel, spend holidays in their caravan and go on walking adventures in the British countryside – all things they had put off whilst devoting their time to farming.

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With just three months left until the 31 January deadline, farmers in the Midlands are being encouraged to submit applications for this year’s Severn Trent Environmental Protection Scheme (STEPS)

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