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Farmers and rural communities in Cumbria have been hit hard by heavy rainfall, sparking Met Office warnings of ’life-threatening’ floods.

Young farmers will help cut plastic pollution and pledge to implement good waste management practices on-farm.

MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee have warned farmers are at risk of going bust during a ‘haphazard’ transition away from the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).

Natural capital could be an exciting and potentially lucrative market for farmers but they will have to put in extra work to reap the benefits, according to Trinity Ag Tech senior managing director Richard Williamson

Arable farmers concerned about the tight availability and surge in prices of bagged nitrogen fertiliser could mitigate some of their requirements in certain crops by ensuring other forms of nutrition are not in limited supply

A new tool that will help assess the amount of carbon locked up in hedges is to be developed by the Allerton Research and Educational Trust (ARET). By Jonathan Wheeler

With COP26 on the horizon, farmers were keen to share their role in mitigating climate change to the public while running profitable and productive businesses.

Communicating farming’s role in mitigating climate change to the public will be key as pressure builds on world leaders to reduce each nation’s emissions. Farmers Guardian reports.

British farmers are working to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the whole of agriculture by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Government’s UK plan.

The CLA has accused the Chancellor of ‘ignoring’ the countryside in the levelling up plans set out in the Budget today (October 27).