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Autumn Budget 2024
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Grants: Pause on Capital Grant items sends out 'mixed messages'
Funding

Grants: Pause on Capital Grant items sends out 'mixed messages'

Rachael Brown
Rachael Brown
clock 08 December 2024 • 5 min read
GRANTS: Farmers ready to deliver, but need 'tools and trust' to do so
Farm Business

GRANTS: Farmers ready to deliver, but need 'tools and trust' to do so

Rachael Brown
Rachael Brown
clock 06 December 2024 • 3 min read
Farming celebration event to take place in Melton Mowbray on December 9
Politics

Farming celebration event to take place in Melton Mowbray on December 9

Alex Black
Alex Black
clock 06 December 2024 • 2 min read
Efra Committee to host evidence session next week on inheritance tax changes as part of its new inquiry into the future of farming
Politics

Efra Committee to host evidence session next week on inheritance tax changes as part of its new inquiry into the future of farming

Rachael Brown
Rachael Brown
clock 06 December 2024 • 3 min read
Latest News
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Grants: Pause on Capital Grant items sends out 'mixed messages'
Funding

Grants: Pause on Capital Grant items sends out 'mixed messages'

NFU senior countryside adviser, Claire Robinson said farmers had engaged with stewardship Capital Grants which support environmental delivery, ‘to only find the application window is suddenly closed for a review'

clock 08 December 2024 • 5 min read
Grants: Final call for Welsh funds in 2024 and a look ahead to 2025
Funding

Grants: Final call for Welsh funds in 2024 and a look ahead to 2025

Welsh Government funding schemes in 2025 will focus on preparing for the launch of the Sustainable Farming Scheme in 2026

clock 07 December 2024 • 2 min read
Dairy market holds steady
Dairy

Dairy market holds steady

Arla has raised its December milk price with other dairies holding steady for January

clock 07 December 2024 • 2 min read
GRANTS: Farmers ready to deliver, but need 'tools and trust' to do so
Farm Business

GRANTS: Farmers ready to deliver, but need 'tools and trust' to do so

National Sheep Association policy manager Emma Owen said if the Government was serious about its environmental and food security ambitions, it ‘must invest in the people at the heart of these goals'

clock 06 December 2024 • 3 min read
Farmers organise Business Property Relief summit at Andrew Lloyd Webber's London Palladium Theatre
Politics

Farmers organise Business Property Relief summit at Andrew Lloyd Webber's London Palladium Theatre

The event is led by the same group of farmers who organised the 'Save Family Farms' rally outside Westminster on November 19

clock 06 December 2024 • 2 min read
BSE detected at farm in Scotland
Farm Business

BSE detected at farm in Scotland

Scottish Government said further investigations to identify the origin of the disease are ongoing

clock 06 December 2024 • 2 min read
Farming celebration event to take place in Melton Mowbray on December 9
Politics

Farming celebration event to take place in Melton Mowbray on December 9

Midlands Farmers are holding a gathering in the ‘rural capital of food’ to show support for the agricultural industry

clock 06 December 2024 • 2 min read
Efra Committee to host evidence session next week on inheritance tax changes as part of its new inquiry into the future of farming
Politics

Efra Committee to host evidence session next week on inheritance tax changes as part of its new inquiry into the future of farming

MPs will hold the first evidence session of this inquiry next week, scrutinising the potential impacts of proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief

clock 06 December 2024 • 3 min read
Highly pathogenic avian influenza detected at poultry business in Norfolk
Farm Business

Highly pathogenic avian influenza detected at poultry business in Norfolk

The World Organisation for Animal Health has ruled that the UK is no longer free from highly pathogenic avian influenza

clock 06 December 2024 • 1 min read
New CLA polling claims Labour is 'losing the countryside'
Politics

New CLA polling claims Labour is 'losing the countryside'

A CLA poll of England's 100 most rural constituencies, shows '58% oppose the inheritance tax hike', with 'less than a quarter in support'

clock 06 December 2024 • 1 min read
UK Government invests £60 million to improve agriculture in Cameroon
Farm Business

UK Government invests £60 million to improve agriculture in Cameroon

The funding will deliver a project to improve 15,000 hectares of grassland, laying new roads for herders, establishing new agricultural facilities and improving soil quality in the Central African country

clock 06 December 2024 • 2 min read
NFU unveils next steps to stop family farm tax
Politics

NFU unveils next steps to stop family farm tax

The next steps of the campaign include lobbying Labour MPs with on-farm accountants, huge banners and stickers, and a 'campaign moment at Lamma show in January

clock 05 December 2024 • 3 min read
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