Arable Event returns to Bradford Estates
News 03/05/2023
The Arable Event – one of the largest farming events in the Midlands – is returning to the Shropshire-Staffordshire border this summer.
Read moreA Herefordshire farmer has been jailed for 12 months for destroying a stretch of the River Lugg – one of the country’s most unspoiled rivers.
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Industry leaders have welcomed a government pledge to repair what is widely seen as a broken pork supply chain – and say retailers must play their part too.
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AF Interim Agricultural Inflation Index records a downward dip after years of spiralling costs
News 27/04/2023
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
News 14/04/2023
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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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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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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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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