Agriculture

Hartpury University student Amy Turner writes about how she got into farming and how her experiences have shaped her passions for the sector

Extending potentially exempt transfers (PETs) to a longer period than the current seven-year gifting rule, and a possible wealth or land tax cannot be completely ruled out

24-year-old Exeter young farmer Elle Slade said it made sense to go into calf rearing due to the low acreage requirement. She said her new venture was her way of bringing something back to the family farm

Elle Slade has been encouraged to follow her own path on the family farm and has set up her own successful calf rearing business, while working part time at a nearby fattening unit

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the top stories from this week, including the Chancellor being accused of using Ministers as 'human shields' over Inheritance Tax changes, farmers take fate into their own hands by abandoning their SFI applications early despite waiting for offers to be made by the Government, APHA appoints former police chief as new chief executive, and Baroness Minette Batters asked to lead a review into farm profitability. Next week the latest on Donald Trump's trade tariffs and the impact on agriculture, new details revealed for the next stage of Johne's disease plan, and a petition to get farming on the curriculum aims to get 100k signatures

Steve Clarkson has held the position of certification and compliance manager since 2009

Public and landowners urged to be vigilant as dry weather sparks major incidents

Loch Ard Forest is set to become home to an additional pair of beavers following on from several successful releases at additional locations at the site over the last year

Dyson Farming considers innovation and sustainability to be top of its agenda which is why it has joined forces with precision-bred crop initiative PROBITY. Farmers Guardian reports

With unusual early observations of yellow rust on several winter wheat varieties in some Recommended Lists (RL) trials mean farmers will need to monitor crops more closely