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Sitting down to write my latest article (and the last one for 2022) on a dark December evening, it is hard to believe that Christmas is now only two weeks away and another year will soon be drawing to a close.

Cereal growers should factor in high fertiliser costs when deciding the cut-off between swapping winter wheat planting for spring barley.

Organisers behind a natural capital marketplace launched in Devon say the world – literally – is its oyster when it comes to where buyers will come from.

An estate in North Yorkshire is determined to help its tenant farmers understand and embrace the emerging market in natural capital.

We talk to Susan Twining, chief land use policy adviser for the CLA, about getting started in the natural capital marketplace.

Farmers and landowners need to start viewing natural capital as an asset to be managed. We asked Mark Tufnell, president of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), for his advice.

As farmers are encouraged to pay closer attention to the natural suite of assets available on farms, which of the key areas are going to be financially incentivised?

A group of farmers have formed a co-operative to trade in natural capital and tap into new environmental schemes.

FARMERS are being urged to act now to protect their farms from the devastating impact of storms as winter approaches.

DISCUSSIONS around succession are becoming more common as older farmers decide now might be the right time to ‘take life a little bit easier’ in light of the changes facing the agricultural sector.