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Farm Business
A plan to build a further 200-plus homes on Somerset farmland could get the go-ahead after the Government dismissed local council concerns.
07 August 2022
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2 min read
Farm Life
The Government has issued guidance to farmers and land managers whose land has been affected by extreme heat, following a month of high temperatures.
05 August 2022
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2 min read
Farm Business
A farmer in Somerset has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after pleading guilty to polluting the River Frome.
07 July 2022
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1 min read
Farm Business
Defra minister Jo Churchill has today resigned, calling into question the Prime Minister’s ‘competence’ and criticising his ‘jocular, self-serving’ attitude.
06 July 2022
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1 min read
Farm Life
A new video has been launched warning farmers to keep a close eye on costly GPS kit during the upcoming harvest.
03 July 2022
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1 min read
Farm Life
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee has said farmers should feel reassured after the Government announced its support for the committee’s recent tree planting report.
25 June 2022
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1 min read
Farm Business
More than 12 million people in rural communities risk being sidelined by the Government’s Levelling Up policy, a new study has found.
25 June 2022
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2 min read
Farm Business
The Welsh Government has unveiled a raft of measures to help farmers negotiate the challenges facing the future of the industry as it moves away from the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP).
23 June 2022
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5 min read
Livestock
Foreign pork products from systems using farrowing crates would not be allowed to be imported if the UK Government chose to ban them here, Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has said.
21 June 2022
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2 min read