Agriculture

This #EarthDay, check out some interesting articles about how farming and agriculture is part of the solution!

As environmental pressures increase and input costs continue to rise, the importance of soil health and the concept of regenerating soils, is a topic of conversation more and more farmers are becoming a part of.

This week’s inflation figures make for eye watering reading, surging as they are at 10.1 per cent and with food being one of the big drivers of that growth.

British lamb heading back across the Atlantic is a major victory for the industry and all credit must go the levy boards and other organisations which have helped facilitate the deal.

Many youngsters had decided what type of job they would not do by the age of nine, showing how vital it was to promote farming as a career from a young age.

If children really do make their minds up about which careers they do not want to do by the age of nine, then agriculture needs to be at the forefront of selling its wares to the next generation from a young age.

The new monarch, King Charles III, has been an outspoken champion for farming throughout his royal life.

The UK Government has made a range of grants available to help farmers and allied industries improve their productivity and efficiency. Hannah Binns talks to some of those who have tapped into the funding.