Red Tractor has appointed Kit Papworth as its new Combinable Crops and Sugar Beet Sector chair after Guy Smith stepped down earlier this year.
A move by a county show to outlaw cow’s milk in favour of an oat-based substitute has been condemned by farming groups.
Landlords are being urged not to resume tenanted land in order to cash-in on new public funding as concerns for the future of the sector mount.
A plan to build a further 200-plus homes on Somerset farmland could get the go-ahead after the Government dismissed local council concerns.
The Government has issued guidance to farmers and land managers whose land has been affected by extreme heat, following a month of high temperatures.
A farmer in Somerset has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after pleading guilty to polluting the River Frome.
Defra minister Jo Churchill has today resigned, calling into question the Prime Minister’s ‘competence’ and criticising his ‘jocular, self-serving’ attitude.
A new video has been launched warning farmers to keep a close eye on costly GPS kit during the upcoming harvest.
More than 12 million people in rural communities risk being sidelined by the Government’s Levelling Up policy, a new study has found.
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee has said farmers should feel reassured after the Government announced its support for the committee’s recent tree planting report.