Farm Business

The Tenant Farmers Association has warned increased payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2022 are not enough by themselves for farmers to enter the scheme.

Newton Rigg Colleges upland farm facility, Low Beckside Farm, Mungrisdale, will be kept as an education resource following a purchase offer by land-based educational charity The Ernest Cook Trust (TECT).

The Tenant Farmers Association has warned increased payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2022 ‘are not enough by themselves’ for farmers to enter the scheme.

Field trials for a bovine tuberculosis (bTB) BCG cattle vaccine and a skin test have begun at a farm in England, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has announced. 

Two farmers from Devon have died within days of each other after being involved in separate farm incidents.

Farmers and land managers in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), National Parks in England or the Broads can tap into Defra’s new Farming in Protected Landscapes scheme to receive funding for projects.

A 23-year-old has died in a tractor-related tragedy.

Some UK dairy farmers are questioning their futures in the industry as input costs soared in what continued to be a ‘two-tiered’ milk market.

But NFU Mutual warned farmers to plan carefully to make diversification a success and avoid tax pitfalls

A farmer is believed to have been crushed to death after he was found next to a tractor with its engine running.