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Farmers Weekly Achieving net zero in Wales by 2050 is going to be “very challenging”, according to a senior adviser on the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC), with some “tricky decisions” to be made on future emissions and carbon storage. Addressing the NFU Cymru conference in Llandrindod Wells on Thursday (2 November). Niki Rust, head of ...

Farmers Weekly There’s a shortage of cash in the entire farming system, according to Richard Barrow, who co-owns and manages A&B Contractors, based at Porte Farm, Kentisbury, north of Barnstaple. “Ten years ago, for example, a six-figure credit facility with suppliers of items such as net wrap, twine and fuel was commonplace, whereas today that limit ...

Communities and Households Statistics for Rural England – August 2023

Read the specification for Miske protected designation of origin (PDO) and find out how to object to the proposal.

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (TOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and the import rules for each category.

Farmers Weekly A snap poll by Farmers Weekly revealed that 52% of dairy farmers who responded, train their heifers through the parlour and 26% run a separate heifer group. Both results are surprisingly high, says Andy Dodd of The Farm Consultancy Group. “Most farms do not have the space to run a separate heifer lactation group. ...

Farmers Weekly Could mint extracts be the secret ingredient to tackling resistant weeds, such as blackgrass and Italian ryegrass? Could they even be a glyphosate replacement? That’s what a US-based start-up company, Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions, is hoping as it develops natural bioherbicides based on plant extracts, primarily from the menthus or mint family. See also: Video: ...

Farmers Weekly Biodiversity net gain (BNG) sites are already in demand. Here, Julie Robinson, agriculture partner at Roythornes Solicitors, talks to Farmers Weekly about the legal considerations. See also: Defra BNG credit prices give open market a steer on values On the face of it, providing biodiversity units may seem like a tempting option, particularly in ...

Farmers Weekly A problem shared is a problem halved, and we could rightly do without half of the weather that is being thrown at us at the moment. A whopping 110mm of rain fell over a 36-hour period during Storm Babet. We have experienced similar levels of rainfall in the past, but the intensity and manner ...

Farmers Weekly Love Island and TikTok star Will Young, known as “Farmer Will”, is on a mission to make farming more accessible to the wider public. In between working full time on his family’s Oxfordshire farm and attending last month’s Farmers Weekly Awards, Will has published his new book, For the Love of Farming. See also: Young ...

Farmers Weekly To have the right to criticise an institution, and be listened to, you also have to give praise where it is due. So in that spirit I want to say this about Defra: The politicians and senior civil servants within the department deserve a lot of credit for how visible they have made themselves ...

Farmers Weekly With Christmas approaching at an alarming rate, Farmers Weekly is once again “taking the pulse” of the farming sector with our annual Sentiment Survey. Last year’s research revealed a growing disenchantment with the Conservative party and widespread dismay at the way post-Brexit polices were developing. See also: 2022 – a year of better returns, ...