The retailer announced a 10-year deal with Cranswick to deliver a new standard for animal welfare across its pork products with the hope of providing farmers with confidence and assurance to invest in the future
Hosts of The Rest is Politics podcast discuss why Labour should change their mind on Inheritance Tax changes, why rural Labour MPs are under pressure to deliver for farmers and the importance of direct payments in agriculture
Simon Haley, founder of SRH Agribusiness, said for farms in England, REPF had been the sole funding avenue for on-farm diversification projects since 2019
Funding sought by livestock farmers for the roofing capital option RP28 to assist with compliance in reducing water pollution for silage stores and livestock manure storage areas was now ‘less' under the new caps
Simon Britton, of Knight Frank, said struggling 'upland farmers' could benefit from a redesign of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme but arable and lowland livestock farms may need to 'reconsider expectations'
The Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), Inheritance Tax and the agriculture budget were the main topics discussed with Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan during a visit to a family sheep farm in Ceredigion
Patrick Holden, chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, has called for a ‘coalition of stakeholders' to reward farmers for ‘positive climate, nature and social outcomes' as part of a ‘Sustainable Markets Initiative'
Exmoor farmer Robin Milton said ‘trust and confidence in SFI had been wrecked' and it would take ‘some exceptionally good assurance' before many farmers would trust integrating it into their business again
With the family farm tax hanging over the agricultural industry and the policy continuing to dominate headlines across national and farming press, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian puts readers’ questions directly to industry experts
An emergency roundtable on the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) has been held this afternoon (March 17) between Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner and farming organisations
TFA representative George Renner said despite indication from Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner at an ‘emergency' industry roundtable that a ‘stripped back version' of SFI would be available this summer, commitments from the Minister were still ‘very woolly'