Sustainable Farming

A huge tranche of the hill land on the iconic Glen Dye Estate in the eastern Grampians has been sold for forestry and peatland restoration.

Climate change, access to labour and an increasing number of cyber attacks were among the possible threats to the UK’s food security listed in a new Government review.

UK agriculture must turn the net zero conundrum on its head and ‘see its current liabilities as assets’, the 2021 Nuffield Conference heard.

A toolkit that assesses the ammonia emissions risk posed by a farm has been put forward as an alternative to environmental permitting, which is currently on-track to be extended to ‘dairy and intensive beef farms’ by 2025.

Dairy farms are at risk of being priced out of complying with rule changes anticipated on the back of environmental permitting, currently on-track to be extended to ‘dairy and intensive beef farms’ by 2025.

Trees have been hitting the headlines this week in the wake of Storm Arwen. Such has been the devastation wrought in parts of the country by the bad weather and strong winds that the damage and amount of toppled trees is like nothing seen in the past 20 years, according to some.

With major farming policy changes in Wales set for next year there was one clear message emerging from this week’s Royal Welsh Winter Fair – sustainability.

The Welsh Conservatives have urged Ministers to ban foreign multinationals from ‘greenwashing’ their emissions by using public money to plant trees.

Students showcased their climate-smart farming inventions at the House of Commons this week as part of the NFU’s Farmvention competition.

Wine prices could rise in 2022 following soaring inflation input costs being felt across UK vineyards.